Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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- Welcome to New World Notes’ 2006-2025 Archive!
- Virtual World Usage Stats from S&P Global Market Intelligence — Plus VRChat & Second Life Specifics!
- Top Five Posts Including: Huge Rec Room Layoff & Meta Boots Neal Stephenson Off Facebook (Briefly)
- Four Glorious Second Life Sims to Explore — After Watching Sabina Valeska’s Machinima Tributes to Them!
- Virtual World Usage Stats from S&P Global Market Intelligence — Plus VRChat & Second Life Specifics!
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Category: Weekly Recap
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Which of These New-ish Second Life Brands Do You Like Most? Nominate TWO in Comments! Metaverse Platform Leader Chart Has Nearly 700M Active Users in 2024 Interested in inZOI? Powerful Life Simulator / Character Creator Goes Viral in Wake of Life By You's Cancellation Survey Results: Nearly Half Experience Motion Sickness Visiting Second Life's New…
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New-ish Second Life Brands Recommended by Readers: Dope Pixels, Neutral Tones & Star Quake. What Others Should Be Featured? How Roblox is Incredibly Popular Yet Still Unprofitable: Matthew Ball Untangles the Metaverse Platform Paradox Five of the Best Brain-Melting VRChat Worlds to Explore Here's a Whole Huge Flickr Group Photographing a Second Life Recreation of…
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What New-ish Second Life Brands Should New World Notes Feature? Does the Metaverse Matter More in 2024? An Online Afterword to My Book! The Making of Second Life’s Mobile App: Inside the Multi-Year, Multi-Team, Multi-Country, Hilariously Buggy Evolution SL Social Network Primfeed Now Gets Nearly 1 Million Monthly Visits Since June Launch. It's Already One…
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The Making of Second Life’s Mobile App: Inside Its Multi-Year, Multi-Team, Multi-Country, Hilariously Buggy Development Second Life's Strange Connection to the 2024 Presidential Election Amazingly, You Can Now Import Your Minecraft Worlds Into VRChat. Here's How That's Possible. The Paris Olympics' Headless Marie Antoinette is Now a Second Life Avatar! Plus Other Amazing Images by…
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Inside Crack Den: The Untold Story Behind Second Life's Controversial, Long-Running Roleplay Community Here's a List of 30+ Live Virtual Worlds We're Tracking. What Others Should We Add to the Virtual Worlds Museum? Watch: Equimake Adds 3D Annotation Feature for Presentations, Demos, and Other Interactive Scenes Glimpses of Outer Garden: There's a Whole Huge Flickr…
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AI-Enhanced Second Life Images Need Not Always Be Labeled As "AI", Argues Artist — Here's Why. Someone Created A Fully Working, Early 2000s-Era, 2.5D Virtual World… Within VRChat! Here's How They Made It. Why Matthew Ball's "The Metaverse" Still Matters — An In-Depth Q&A With The Author On The Influential Book's New Edition. We Love…
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New On My Patreon: Why Matthew Ball's "The Metaverse" Still Matters — An In-Depth Q&A With The Author On The Influential Book's New Edition Second Life-Based Mini-MMO Adds ChatGPT & Other AI Tech To Gameplay Including NPCs, Story Bible, And Quest Generator Watch: Drone Footage Of Real World Converted Into Virtual World Through Gaussian Splatting…
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Watch Me Talk Making A Better Metaverse With XR Reality's Dominque Wu Many Second Life Merchants Say The Virtual World Economy Seems Oligopolistic; How Should Linden Lab Intercede? Second Life Mobile App Downloaded Over 10,000 Times In First 2 Weeks — Probably Much More! RSVP To See If RP1 Really Has Created The Canonical Metaverse…
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Explore Umi: Spectacular New Second Life Island Inspired By Anime And Real Life Personal Loss How To Optimize PBR Era Firestorm: Note & Tips From The Lead Dev SLer Survey: Firestorm's PBR Upgrade Generates Firestorm Of Mixed Reactions Vision Pro Survey Suggests Apple's Headset Isn't Greatly Changing Owners' Media Consumption Habits
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Raph Koster Unveils Stars Reach, Playable Worlds' Sandbox MMO Sim — And First Step In His Metaverse Strategy In Sign Of Growing Protest Over Heavily AI-Enhanced Images, Primfeed Adds Restrictions To AI Content Second Life Merchants On The State Of The Virtual World Economy In 2024: How Many Earn Good Revenue, Use Gen AI, Suspect…
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