Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Yearly Recap
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Better get these up before they actually start transpiring: Apple will not release or announce its widely-rumor XR headset in 2023. Putting my neck out a bit and will happily eat my words, but despite what The Information says, I'm still skeptical Apple has any motivation to enter the still tiny XR market. Also: "The…
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Time to take a lot at what I predicted would happen in 2022, and compare it with what actually did: Apple will not announce AR/VR products in 2022. Yes. And I'm tempted to predict the same thing for 2023! Second Life finally gets an official mobile app in 2022. Yes, though kinda sorta. Some SLers aren't…
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Neal Stephenson Q&A, The Metaverse In Wartime, Shrek Ears — My Favorite New World Notes Posts Of 2022 Seven Second Life Blogs We Loved In 2022: The SL Hotel Inspector, Cinnamon, Beauty & Grace, Blue, Cozey In SL, Toshikya Sato & Artifex Silence Five News Stories From 2022 Likely To Be Even More Newsworthy In…
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As always, my main focus with New World Notes (and the Metaverse in general) is not the technology or the business interests per se, but the people in the virtual world, the culture they create, and what that says about our lives in the digital age. Here's my favorite 2022 posts within that theme: After…
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting When Hamlet asked me to highlight my favorite posts from my Friday Fashion blog column, the first one I thought of is: Second Life Blogger Reviews Virtual Hotels – Yes They Exist & Some Charge Over $12/USD A Night! Before I came…
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If you asked me which New World Notes posts from this year will become even more relevant in 2023, I'd say these: Shock Stat: 1600 Second Life Community Creators Make $10,000+ Per Year From Their Virtual Content — Despite Working On A Much Larger Platform, Far Fewer Creators On ROBLOX Make That Rate Assuming Apple…
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Presented in chronological order, here's the New World Notes posts that garnered the most traffic and social media shares for the year. It's a nice compendium of 2022 news, from the collapse of NFT hype/blockchain metaverse platforms to the rise of AI image/text generation — along with virtual world echoes of real world news, including…
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