New World Notes

Top 5 Posts from Last Week: Best of Year Recaps, Cassie's Winter Carol in SL

• Cassie's Clips: Singing "Winter Wonderland" While In SL's Winter Project
• Top 5 NWN Posts From Last Week: Spector In Sinespace, High Polycount Mesh In Second Life, And Much More
• Cajsa’s SL Flickr Choice Of The Day: Abel Streeter's American Nativity Scene
• Best Of 2018: The Top 12 Most Read & Shared New World Notes Stories
• My Personal Favorite New World Notes Posts Of 2018

My Personal Favorite New World Notes Posts of 2018

SpyParty: Creator Chris Hecker On His Hit Indie Game That's Like An Avatar-Based Turing Test Meets James Bond

Siggy Romulus: A Life & Love Remembered By His Wife, Nephilaine

Twitter Use In United States Stagnant Since 2016 Election -- No Trump Bump, According To SimilarWeb

Avatar Users Saw The "Real You Online" Catastrophe Coming Years Ago

Ana Ribeiro On Creating Pixel Ripped 1989, Her Acclaimed VR Game That Virtually Recreates The Retro Games Of Childhood

Now Popular In Second Life: Realistic Imperfection, Including Cellulite & Stretch Marks For Female Avatars

Many more beyond the break!

Best of 2018: The Top 12 Most Read & Shared New World Notes Stories

• Facebook Loses 1.3 Billion Monthly Visits In Wake Of Cambridge Analytica Scandal, According To SimilarWeb - Down 5% Of Average
• How MS Windows Once Caused Second Life To Break An Inkjet Printer (Probably the very top post of 2018!)
• Online Worlds With User-Generated Content Like VRChat, Roblox & Second Life Threatened By Upcoming EU Regulation, Says EFF's Cory Doctorow
• Survey: Strong Majority Of Tech Workers Want Twitter To Ban Alex Jones -- But Most Tech Workers AT Twitter Don't
• In Massive Gamer Survey, 79% Of Females Under 30 Classify As Core/Hardcore -- Overwatch, LoL & Fallout 4 Among Their Favorites
  
• Watch: MICA, Magic Leap's Eerily Human AI Avatar Who Looks You In The Eye
• Oculus Co-Founder Who Wanted To Build A "Billion Person Virtual World" Departs Facebook, Decrying Company's "Race To The Bottom" With Standalone Headsets
• Oculus & Vive Usage Appears To Be Flat Or Declining, According To Steam Stats, Sales Estimates

• Humans Want Struggle, Not Perfection: What The Matrix's Agent Smith Teaches Us About Creating Successful Virtual Worlds
• Philip Rosedale: Why Virtual Reality Offers A Better Consumer Experience Over AR Devices Like HoloLens & Magic Leap
• 1 In 10 Second Life Merchants Surveyed Earn USD $100,000+ A Year From Selling Virtual Goods
• Top-Selling Mesh Avatar Bodies Drastically Hurting Overall Second Life Performance, Says 3D Graphics Expert -- Calls For Boycott Of Poorly Optimized Products

Top 5 NWN Posts from Last Week: Spector in Sinespace, High Polycount Mesh in Second Life, and Much More

• Watch: Warren Spector Visits Sinespace To Talk Underworld Ascendant, System Shock 3, And A Legendary Career In Games
• New iPhone App Remakes Massive Attack's Mezzanine Into Adaptive, Mixed Reality Experience
• Want To See How Resource Heavy SL Mesh Bodies Really Are? Use Black Dragon's Advanced Complexity Tool
• Watch: Adorable Bird In VRChat Flies From Korea To Meet Fellow Avatar In Canada, Proves Power Of VR To Create RL Connections
• Does Epic Not Linden Lab Better Deserve The Title Of Metaverse Builder?

Top 6 New World Notes Posts from Last Week: How Second Life Helped Birth Fortnite, Why VR Headset Sales Aren't "Rebounding", and Much More

• Cassie's Clips: How To Improve Your SL Performance Despite Heavy Mesh
• "You'll Fly Too": The Unseen Second Life Installation Of The Acclaimed Artist Known As AM Radio
• Why Fortnite's Most Unexpected Predecessor Is... Second Life
• Watch: Text-To-Speech App For Voice-Free Communicating In High Fidelity
• With Slow Sales, VR Headset Market Still Not Having Meaningful "Rebound"
• Sansar's Appearance On Steam Adds A Few Hundred New Users Or So

Top 6 NWN Posts Last Week: How Heavy Mesh Bodies Hurt Second Life, Why Fortnite is Now a Virtual World, And Much More

• Top-Selling Mesh Avatar Bodies Drastically Hurting Overall Second Life Performance, Says 3D Graphics Expert
• Will Steam's Hardcore Gamers Try Playing Sansar Now That It's In The Store?
• Fortnite Officially Becomes Full-Fledged Virtual World With Private Islands & Content Creation Tools
• Explore A Randomly-Generated Maze Of Mental Anguish -- Coming Soon From Bryn Oh In Second Life
• Watch: NVIDIA System Converts Real Life Into A Virtual World -- But Probably Won't Replace Actual Virtual Worlds
• Tumblr Algorithm Tagging Virtual Lesbian Images As "NSFW" -- But Virtual Female Nipples Apparently OK

Top 5 NWN Posts from Last Week: Virtual Recession vs. $100K+ Virtual Earners, AR in VR, and Much More

• How Many Second Life Communities Will Follow Pfaffenthal 1867 To Sansar?
• 1 In 10 Second Life Merchants Surveyed Earn USD $100,000+ A Year From Selling Virtual Goods
• Virtual World Recession? Over One-Third Of Second Life Content Creators Report Recent Sales Down 15-30% -- But Only 2% Are Creating Content For Sansar (Survey)
• Watch: Augmented Reality App Created For Virtual Reality Headset
• Second Life Grid Continues To Grow In Wake Of Tier Discounts (But Slowly)

Top 3 New World Notes Posts from Last Week: Why Second Life Should Have a Minecraft-ish Option, Why Social VR May Be Live Music's Feature, and Why Philip Rosedale Thinks VR is Better Than AR

• Watch Thomas Dolby Performing In High Fidelity And Decide If Social VR Is The Future Of Live Online Music
• How Linden Lab Could Create A Minecraft-Style Game Mode In Second Life
• Philip Rosedale: Why Virtual Reality Offers A Better Consumer Experience Over AR Devices Like HoloLens & Magic Leap

Top 6 New World Notes Posts from Last Week: Metaverse Lessons from The Matrix, Animesh Launches, Aliens Evolve, Much More

• Magic Leap Launches Avatar Chat With AR Chatroom & Media Sharing, Cartoonish, Low-Detail Avatars
• Humans Want Struggle, Not Perfection: What The Matrix's Agent Smith Teaches Us About Creating Successful Virtual Worlds
• Space Invaders Meets Darwin: Mini-Game Where Waves Of Aliens Pass Genes To Next Generation -- And Evolve
• Animesh, Enabling Animated Mesh NPCs & Autonomous Creatures, Officially Launches In Second Life
• Star Is Reborn: Rising EDM Vocalist Briefly Returns To Second Life To Test Out New Material Through His Avatar, Skye Galaxy
• Since Second Life Is So Difficult To Use, Linden Lab Should Pay New Users To Learn How To Use It

Top 7 Stories Last Week: Spector in Sinespace, Dolby in HiFi & Much More

• Meet Warren Spector In The Virtual World: Sinespace And Escapist Host An Hour With The Influential Game Designer, Nov 17 At 3pm (PST) - RSVP Now!
• Holodeck VR Uses Hybrid Tracking To Map Virtual World Experience Onto Real World Location With Up To 100 Users In The Same Physical Space
• Watch: How To Make Second Life Look Like An Animated Line Drawing
• Thomas Dolby, Pop Star & VR Enthusiast, To Perform Live In High Fidelity
• Let's Watch A Sansar Experience Take Forever To Load On A High-End PC
• SLer Confusion Over New Flickr Announcement Leads To "Witch Hunt" Fears
• Second Life's Open-Ended User Interface As An MMO Is So Complicated, Mastering The UI Is How To Level Up