New World Notes

Top Five Stories Including the Rise of the Metaverse Generation and the Incredible Story Behind Hanna's New Second Life Shoes

• The New Second Life Shoes of Hanna Lindberg Tell Two Amazing Stories
• The Limits of Gen AI, the Immersion Divide, and The Rise of the Metaverse Generation
• Tiny Glade, Procedurally Cozy Indie Sandbox Game, Already a Hit One Day After Launch. (First Step to a Tiny Glade Virtual World?)
• Cajsa's Choices: Marvelous SL Images & Midjourney Experiments by Madoka Kawabata
• Watch: Zuckerberg Unveils Horizon Worlds Updates: "Improved" Avatars (Except Not), and Hyperlink-Like "Primitives" (Sounds Familiar!)

Top 6 Posts Including: Meta's Community Support Problem with Horizon Worlds & a Look at OpenAI-Powered NPCs in Second Life

• NPC Companions With Long-Term Memories & Evolving Relationships Powered by Llama & OpenAI, Now Available to Meet in Second Life
• Horizon Worlds Has Powerful Features, Says Former Meta Dev -- But Meta Isn't Giving the Platform's Creator Community Enough Visibility
• The Subtle Power of PBR in Second Life is Much More Than Mirrors
• What Virtual Worlds / Metaverse Platforms Now Have Between 10,000 - 200,000 Monthly Active Users?
• Perfectly Composed SL Landscape Photos by Natalia Corvale -- With Teleport Links to Take You to Them Too!
• Meta Could Be Turning Horizon Worlds Into a Cross-Platform Virtual Machine (Guest Post)

Top 5 Posts Including Roblox's Steam Competition Play, Explosive Growth of Second Life-Based Social Network & IBM's Forgotten Experiment in Metaverse Interoperability

• VRChat Guide: Five of the Best Brain-Melting Worlds to Explore
• Second Life Mobile Update: Latest Version Fixes Android 13 Issue -- And Now Allows Access to All SL Sims of All Maturity Ratings
• Roblox to Offer Steam-Like Revenue Share to Game Developers for Their PC-Based Roblox Experiences
• Primfeed Stats: In First 2 Months, Social Network for Second Life Users Getting 10K+ Weekly Visits from 35K+ Registered Users -- Who Post 4,000 Images Per Day!
• Metaverse Interoperability Across Multiple Platforms Was Tried By IBM & Linden Lab But Didn't Catch On -- Here's Why.

Top 5 Posts Including: Why the Metaverse Works, New Combat Game In Second Life, and Ted Chiang vs. AI-Made Art

• Here's Why the Metaverse Works, Leading to Massive Platforms Like Roblox, Fortnite & Many More
• Linden Lab Launches "Combat 2.0", Red vs. Blue Team FPS Map in Second Life. Featuring Fiercely Fighting Furries. UPDATE: It's a Showcase of LSL Combat2 Now Rolling Out Across SL.
• Ted Chiang, Acclaimed Literary Author & Microsoft Technical Writer, Succinctly Explains Why AI Can't Create Art
• Readers: What Special Second Life Sims Are Still Standing? Please Report Your Favorites Here!
• Sannyのおすすめバーチャルワールドニュース : 2024年8月 Sanny Reports For Virtual Japan

Top 4 Posts Including Metaverse Platform Leader Chart & an inZOI Intro

• 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 Homepage

Top 5 Posts Including: Why Roblox Is Huge But Unprofitable & What Went Wrong With WoW

• 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 a Rundown Desert Town Off Route 66
• What Went Wrong With WoW? A Blizzard Veteran’s Theory on World of Warcraft’s Fall From Its 12 Million Subscriber Height

Top 5 Posts Including: VRChat's Japanese Growth, Developing Second Life's Long-Awaited Mobile App, and Why the Metaverse Matters More in '24

• 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 of the Top SL Community Sites Online.
• VRChat Rockets to Popularity in Japan Thanks to Conference, TV Show, Etc.

Top 6 Post Including a Minecraft to VRChat Importer & Second Life's Strange Connection to the 2024 US Presidential Race

• 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 Loute Diesel
• Survey Results: Second Life Community Strongly Agrees with Anonymous Creator's Acerbic Rant About SL Economy

Top 5 Posts Including: The Secret History of Second Life's Crack Den, and an Epic Rant/Survey About the SL Merchant Economy

• 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 Group Devoted to Photographing This Dream-Like Space in Second Life
• Second Life Merchants: What Do You Think of This Epic Anonymous Rant on the SL Creator Economy? Take the Survey at the End!

Top 4 Posts Including a Retro Virtual World in VRChat & a Deep Dive Q&A With The Metaverse Author Matthew Ball

• 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 Danna Boo's Relaxed, Naturalistic SL Photos With Occasional Cows