New World Notes

Top 7 Posts Last Week: Linden Lab & Dual Universe Interviews; Pillowfort, Second Life, VRChat, High Fidelity News, Analysis, Humor

• Watch: Interview With Ebbe Altberg On The Future Of Second Life & Sansar
• Nylon Pinkney Is Online - When Romance In Second Life Gets Real
• High Fidelity First Announced Social VR Platform For Vive Focus Plus
• Want To Play In Pillowfort? As Google+ Goes, Plurk Slumps, And Twitter/Facebook Remain Toxic, A New Social Network Emerges
• Watch: How Virtual Worlds Like VRChat Make It Possible For People To Share Tremendous Real Life Pain
• Watch: Why Dual Universe's Version Of The Metaverse Is An MMO Kept Separate From The Real World
• Linden Lab Should Bring The Latest Technology To Second Life -- Even If It Means Breaking Old SL Content

Top 8 Posts Last Week: Us Meets Deep Dream, Improbable Concurrency, New PSVR Numbers, Sinespace Partners With Unity -- Plus Great SL Imagery, Machinima & Comics

• Nylon Pinkney Is Online: Looking For Love In Second Life's Forgotten Lands
• Sinespace's First-Person Shooter Construction Tutorial Featured On Unity Blog
• Lupita Nyong'o In Us Re-Imagined By Afrofuturist Artist & Deep Dream AI
• Company Roaming Planet To 3D Scan Whole Ecosystems To Incorporate Into Unreal-Based Virtual Worlds
• Cajsa’s Flickr Pick: Skinny Nilla Exquisitely Colored & Composed SL Imagery
• Watch "Insilico Defender": Cool & Clever Mix Of Virtual Fashion Show, Cyberpunk Machinima
• At 4.2M, PSVR Now Has About 2X Install Base As Vive & Premium Oculus
• Watch: Improbable VP Says There's Little Interest In Massive Single-Shard MMOs In The West -- But Their Platform Can Support 20,000 Concurrent Players In A Continuous, Seamless Virtual World

Top 4 Posts Last Week: The 3 Levels of "Being Online", an SDK for Sinespace, from Cybersex to Community, and a Physics-Powered Clock in Second Life

• Nylon Pinkney Is Online: The Three Levels Of "Being Online"
• Watch: A Second Life Clock That Runs Entirely On Virtual World Physics
• VentureBeat Features Sinespace's New All-In-One Virtual World SDK Now In Unity Asset Store
• I Came To Second Life Looking For Cybersex; I Stayed For Creating & Community (Comment Of The Week)

Top 6 Posts Last Week: A Virtual World Pioneer Passes, Rawls' Theory of Justice & MMO Design, SL's Branding Problem, 30K Dual Universe "User" Concurrency, and Why SL Home Tours Tend to Be NSFW

• Nylon Pinkney Is Online - Why Second Life Home Tours Are Usually NSFW-Ish
• Watch: Dual Universe Handles 30,000 Concurrent "Users" On A Single Planet
• Watch One Of Second Life's Biggest Fans Explaining Second Life's Own Bad Design & Branding Decisions
• Can Rawls' Theory Of Justice Help Us Design Fairer MMOs?
• RIP Fran Serenade: Senior Citizen Who Helped Pioneer Use Of Virtual Worlds To Recover From Parkinson's Symptoms, Dies At 91
• Linden Lab Needs A Heavily Regulated PG-13 Continent In Second Life -- And More SL Presence Of Linden Staff & Mentors

Top 5 Posts Last Week: Fortnite Fun, Oculus Homes Walkthrough, Open Source VR for SL, Slow Oculus Go Sales, Adult-Rated Second Life Status

• Nylon Pinkney Is Online -- Playing Fortnite: The Gun Gathering Simulator
• Watch: Veteran VR Enthusiast Compares Oculus Custom Homes To Sansar
• Does This Open Source VR Viewer For Second Life Make The Virtual World Look Better Than VRChat?
• Oculus Go Slow: 2018 Sales Of Standalone VR HMD Fall Far Below Forecast
• 25% Of Second Life Land Mass Now Adult-Rated For Extreme Sex & Violence

Top 5 Posts Last Week: Virtual World Gentrification, SL Tutorials & Much More

• Cassie's Clips: How To Add Natural Light, Color Burns & Overlays To Your Screenshots With Photoshop
• Nylon Pinkney Is Online: The Ghosts Of Second Life Breedables Past
• Watch: Modbox Sandbox Game Includes Mind-Bending "Mirror World" Mixed Reality Feature
• Firestorm QA: Yes, It's Possible To Use Debug Settings To Get Super-High Quality Second Life Images -- Here's How
• Has Second Life Been Fully Gentrified? Thoughts From My BBC Interview

Top 4 NWN Posts Last Week: Marie Kondo Meets the Metaverse, Embedded Reporting in VRChat, Social VR Stats & A High Res Hack for Firestorm

• Nylon Pinkney Is Online: Marie Kondo Meets Second Life User Inventory
• How "Syrmor" Became VRChat's Best Embedded Virtual World Reporter
• How To Display Extremely High-Res Textures In SL's Firestorm Viewer
• Social VR Stats: Concurrency Rates For VRChat & Rec Room Remain Stable -- Big Screen Sees Slight Growth Bump

Top 5 NWN Posts Last Week: Teaching AIs to Argue, Cartooning VRChat Strangeness, Funding VR Art & More

• Nylon Pinkney Is Online: One Night In VRChat
• Watch: New Trailer To Dual Universe, The Fully Immersive Metaverse
• Watch: DeepMotion Creating AIs Which "Learn" How To Argue With Each Other
• Decade-Old Second Life Innovations Now Embraced As "New" By Mainstream
• Artist Gets Canadian Government Grant To Create VR & Machinima Experiences In Second Life & Sansar

Top 6 Posts from Last Week: Facebook Making an MMO, VRChat Growing Strong, Reimagining Great Black Artists With Deep Dream & Much More

• Facebook Creating Virtual Game World With NPCs, Stories, Levels
• 30% Of VRChat's Daily Users Wear HMDs -- That's About 40,000-100,000 Monthly VR Users, Which Would Make VRChat The Most-Used VR Game!
• Afrofuturist Artist Creates Stunning Portraits Of Black Artists With Deep Dream AI Algorithms
• Fortnite Follows Second Life's Footsteps Further Hosting "Live" In-Game Concert Of RL Popstar Marshmello
• Location-Based, Instagram-Friendly VR Startup Gets $68M From Andreessen
• Social VR Steam Stats: VRChat Peak Concurrency Grows Strongly To 10,000+; Strongly Suggests Monthly Active Users In The Low Six Figures

Top 5 New World Notes Posts from Last Week: Lessig on MMOs & Politics, Open Source VR for Second Life, VRChat & Transcendence

• I Chat With Lawrence Lessig On What MMOs Can Teach Us About Politics IRL
• SL Merchant Survey: Seven Surprising Insights Into The Virtual Economy
• Open Source VR For Second Life Gets Up To 100 FPS, Reports Developer, Who's Seeking Vive & Oculus Users To Help Optimize For Those Headsets
• Watch: Bullied Teen With ADHD & Social Anxiety Is Eloquent & Perceptive Through His Kermit The Frog Avatar In VRChat
• Surprising SimilarWeb Stats: 1 In 4 Visits To SecondLife.Com Are Mobile; More Visits From YouTube, Than Facebook