Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Yearly Recap
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If you missed these stories over the year, I hope you give them a second look: They're among my personal favorites and/or the ones I believe will remain relevant for the coming year. Study Suggests Emotion & Player Agency More Important Than High-End Graphics in Virtual Experience "Field of view and visual realism – achieved…
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Based on social shares and/or total pageviews, roughly arranged in chronological order, here's the most read New World Notes posts of 2024. Overall, these also posts happen to be a pretty good reflection of the year that was! Midjourney Metaverse? CEO David Holz Confirms AI Startup is Building "Real-Time Open World Holodeck" I received a…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Making a list of my favorite Second Life fashion blogs of 2023 is so hard. My first time reading through all my posts about blogs, I ended up selecting a couple dozen excellent choices all of which could easily fit my list…
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Some predictions for 2024 before we hit the New Year: A new, well-funded metaverse platform launches. Likeliest candidates include Everywhere from Grand Theft Auto veterans and Playable Worlds from Raph Koster and crew. I say "well-funded" because we also sure to see some bootstrapped or crowdfunded projects hit the market as well. (I may know…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting To celebrate my favorite Second Life images of 2023, check out this gallery I put together above. This got me thinking of all the pictures I wanted to feature this year but didn’t — until now. These are some of the best…
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Richard Bartle, Top Virtual World Expert, Tries Explaining Core Problems With NFT & Blockchain At A Crypto Conference. It Does Not Go Well. BREAKING: First Test Viewer Of Crystal Frost, Unity-Based Second Life Viewer AI Expert Explains How ChatGPT Really Works — And Why It's Designed To Produce "The Most Mediocre Web Content You Can…
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Time to come clean about my 2023 predictions from last January: "Apple will not release or announce its widely-rumored XR headset in 2023." Whoops. Not released, but definitely announced. Award half a point. "VRChat will announce 10 million monthly actives in 2023." My research indicates this is the case during high usage months, but the…
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Welcome, Bad Unicorn: Creator Of Comically Chaotic Second Life Items Is Now A New World Notes Sponsoring Partner! Viewfinder, Immersive, Brain-Melting Puzzle Game, Now 20% Off On Steam — Read My Interview With The Indie Dev! Rooms.XYZ Is A Kind Of Mini-Metaverse You Can Customize & Explore In The Palm Of Your Hand Today's SL…
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Starting This Weekend: Second Life Shopping Fundraiser To Benefit Maui Families In Need, On A Sim Shaped Like The Island Meme Means Business: Second Life Creator Sells TWO THOUSAND Copies Of Combat-Ready Foldable Chair, Latest In A Meme-To-SL Business Model ChatGPT Has Been Slumping On Google Trends Since April — And Outranked By Leading Metaverse…
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Second Life Artist Exports Her Latest Experience To Unreal & Steam — Here's What Bryn Oh Learned Along The Way! Professors Warn Students About Cheating With ChatGPT With Stern Warning… Created By ChatGPT Metaverse Platform Usage Grows To 520M MAU — Q1 2023 Metaversed Chart
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