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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CONFIRMED: Adam Schiff's Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act Would Apply To Video Games, Virtual Worlds & Metaverse Platforms Seeking Media / Business Partners As New World Notes Expands Reach! When Can We Create Something Like 3 Body Problem's Virtual World With Full Body VR? Forecasts By Philip Rosedale, Raph Koster & Other Experts Second Life…
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US Government-Funded Researchers Found That Women Using Quest Devices Much More Likely To Experience VR Nausea. No One In Meta/The VR Industry Has Contacted Them About It. Damaged Avatars: Style Choice, Or Expressions Of RL Sadism/Self-Harm/Misogyny? Text Bridge Sends Chat From Second Life To Discord — And Vice Versa! Watch: Running Rec Room On Apple…
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Above: Real-life model/influencer Kate Purt, generated by Makery.AI creator vAIsual from a few hundred images of Kate — with her full and prior consent 10 Years Ago, After Facebook Bought Oculus, A Top Academic Warned About VR Causing Females Nausea. No One At Facebook/Meta Followed Up. Virtual World Users Hilariously Troll LLM-Powered Bots — And…
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Like Talking With ChatGPT In A Tank Top: Convai's AI-Powered Second Life Bots Already Lounging At A Beach — Here's What They Told Me! To Find Great Second Life-Based Images On Flickr, Check The Faves Of Great SL Artists On Flickr. Here's Some Of My Favorite Faves! VRChat IPhone/IPad App Coming Soon? "IOS" User Recently…
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Watch: Can Convai's Intelligent Bots Help Grow Second Life's User Base? Jeri Ellsworth's Tilt Five Offering A Lightweight, Low Cost Alternative To Apple Vision Pro's Spatial Computing Vision BREAKING: Linden Lab Officially Confirms "Thorough Investigation" Of Serious Allegations Recently Posted To Social Media Universal Music, Which Just Pulled Its Music From TikTok, Officially Announces Partnership…
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Watch Me Talk About Mythic Origins Of Metaverse Myths At VWBPE 2024 Sign Of LLM Controversy To Come: Raph Koster's Classic Game Design Book Converted Into A ChatGPT Plug-In Without His Consent We Asked Midjourney For Pics Of Sci-Fi Combat Medics Performing CPR. It Gave Us A Porn Version Of Aliens. Despite Warnings From Top…
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Why Companies Often Don’t Address Internal Controversies In Public, Generally Speaking Watch: Philip Rosedale Demos New Rig-Based VR Experience Without Headset, Nausea I'm Talking About Metaverse Myths At The Virtual Worlds Best Practices In Education Conference, March 14 At 4pm PT — Here's How To Attend! Running VRChat In Apple Vision Pro (Kinda Sorta) —…
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Above: Cyberspace as depicted in the Robert Longo/Keanu Reeves adaptation of William Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic (via GNDN) Jenova Chen On Designing A More Socially Positive Virtual World — Excerpt, Making A Metaverse That Matters Confirmed: Linden Lab Investigating Serious Allegations Recently Posted To Social Media, Say Sources Second Life Photography Tips: Here's How Serena Marabana…
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Meet SL Grid Memes, One Of Instagram's Top Second Life-Themed Instagram Accounts — And Among The Funniest What Happened When NBC's The Office Came To Second Life — Excerpt, Making A Metaverse That Matters Second Life Tutorial: How To Create A Mirror Effect With The New PBR Upgrade Study Suggests Emotion & Player Agency More…
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Above: From Meta VR's Terms of Service Watch: Second Life Creator Transforms Empty Plot Into "Last Of Us But Magical" Town — And Shares Tips For Other SL Creators If Generative AI Is So Transformative, Where's All The AI-Based Fine Art? Mixed Reality Project Uses Multiple Kinects To Convert People Into Volumetric Avatars And "Teleport"…
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