New World Notes

Top 6 Posts Including a Dazzling Tribute to SL Artists & What Twitter Employees Really Think About Twitter Under Elon

• BREAKING: 89% Of Twitter Employees Believe Twitter Won't Succeed Under Elon Musk; 95% Say Recent Layoffs Not Done With Empathy -- Blind Survey
• Top Second Life Fashion Brand Opens Up A Shop In Zepeto; Truth Hawks Compares & Contrasts The Platforms
• WATCH: Amazing Machinima Tribute To Second Life's Artist Community Is Also Among The Best SL Machinimas Ever Made
• Powerful Scripting Update Coming Soon To Second Life - Here's How It'll Improve Interactive Experiences
• Sannyのおすすめバーチャルワールドニュース : 2022年10月 Sanny Reports For Virtual Japan
• Monday Memory: When IBM's Metaverse Campus Was Flooded With A Labor Union Protesters Including A Large Angry Banana

New World Notes Highlights Last Week While New World Notes Was Mostly Offline

• WATCH: Isabelle & Me Chat About Second Life’s Premium Problem, Dual Universe & Other Metaverse Business
• Today's Flickr Pick: Ghoulishly Stylish Avatar Portraits From Base Of Bad Ideas
• Today's Metaverse Flickr Pick: Virtual Furniture Photographed Like Abstract Art

Top 6 Posts Last Week Including Metaverse Platform User Growth & The Surprising Leader in Metaverse Revenue Paid to Creators

Walsh County on the Campton sim [click here to teleport]

• Watch: We Talk About Taylor Swift’s Metaverse, Roblox Revenue & Other Topics While Paddling On The Second Life Sea
• Play Gloomwood: Immersive Steampunk Indie Sim Consciously Evoke Classic, Beloved Thief Games Of The Early 2000s
• Here's What A Beautiful Wheat Field In Second Life Looks Like -- Raw Screenshot Vs. Artist's Final Image
• Second Life User Creators Were Paid Out $86 Million In 2021! That's Decent Growth & Compares Well To Metaverse Leader Roblox
• WATCH: This Impressive Machinima With Amazing Fight Scenes Was Shot Entirely In VRChat -- With One Actor Playing All The Fighters!
• Metaverse Platforms Infographic: Now Well Over Half A Billion Monthly Users!

Top 6 Posts Last Week Including: What Taylor Swift Gets That Most Metaverse Devs Miss, Plus a Post-Mortem on Decentraland

• Linden Lab Payment Spinoff Tilia Gets Strategic Investment From Finance Giant J.P. Morgan
• WATCH: VRChat Not Only Has Avatars With Legs -- The Community Has Full-Body, Group Workout Sessions Founded In 2020 During The Pandemic As A Gym Alternative
• Today's SL Flickr Pick: Micah Volmaire's Arresting Images Of Virtual Landscapes
• What Went Wrong With Decentraland? Expert Game Analyst On The Blockchain-Based Metaverse Platform With High Ideals, Few Users
• WATCH: Pianist & Video Artist Hypnotically Improvise Together In Real Time In The Metaverse
• The Atlantic Asks Me How Much Taylor Swift Is Like The Metaverse -- Spoiler: More Than You Might Think!

Top 7 Last Posts Including: Carmack on the Rise of VRChat & Rec Room on Quest and The Wall Street Journal Concludes Its Series on Second Life

• Listen: Part 4 Of The WSJ's Podcast, "How To Build A Metaverse", On The Dwight Schrute Fallacy & Why Second Life Really Matters
• OSMIA Update: Ukraine-Based Second Life Creator Escapes To (Relative) Safety
• In Memory Of Serene Footman, Beloved Second Life Artist Who Passed IRL -- Here's Some Recent Works By Him & Co-Created With His Partner
• Why Second Life Hit A Growth Plateau -- Founding CTO Cory Ondrejka On Team Turnover & The Innovator's Dilemma
• Carmack: Quest 2 Price Was Raised Because Free Metaverse Platforms VRChat & Rec Room Are More Popular Than Quest's Premium Games
• Quest 2 Attach Rate Estimate: 2-3 Games Per Owner, Based On Meta & Industry Figures
• Female Users Of Virtual Worlds Get Bodyshamed About As Much As They Do Offline (Comment Of The Week)

Top 5 Posts Including: I Talk With CNN About Avatar Prejudice, WSJ Features SL Trying to Go Mainstream, and SL Unveils a Web/Mobile Streaming Option

SpeedLight image via Gogo

• Listen: Second Life Tries To Go Mainstream In Part 3 Of The WSJ's Podcast, "How To Build A Metaverse" -- And What I Wrote At The Time
• Meta / Linden Lab Veteran: Metaverse Platforms Which Don't Learn The Lessons Of Previous Virtual Worlds Are Doomed To Repeat Them
• Sannyのおすすめバーチャルワールドニュース : 2022年9月 Sanny Reports For Virtual Japan
• BREAKING: Second Life Again Available On Browsers & Mobile... For Premium+ Subscribers; UPDATES: Added Pic Of Current SL Streaming Experience
• I Tell CNN Why Realistic Avatars Bring Real Prejudice To The Virtual World

Top 5 Posts Last Week Including My Interview With Neal Stephenson About the Fictional & Real Metaverse and More!

• Listen: Sex, War & Griefing Come To Second Life In Part 2 Of The WSJ's Podcast, "How To Build A Metaverse"
• Watch: We Explore Second Life Sites Featured In WSJ's Podcast While Chatting About Metaverse Topics Like Neal Stephenson, Dual Universe & Linden Lab WTF Moments
• Neal Stephenson On Making The Metaverse With Lamina1: The Snow Crash / Cryptonomicon Author Tells Me Why The Time Is Now To Make His Vision Real
• Dual Universe, Dark Horse Contender To Become The "True Metaverse" Launches Today -- And I Have Access Codes For Five Readers!
• NVIDIA Already Launching AI Model To Generate 3D Objects: Think Midjourney Meets The Metaverse

Top 7 New World Notes Posts: Neal Stephenson Making a Metaverse Platform, The WSJ Launches a Podcast on Second Life & Much More

• Listen: Wall Street Journal Launches Epic Four Part Series On Second Life!
• BREAKING: Neal Stephenson Himself Is Making His Own Virtual World Called... THEE Metaverse
• This VRChat Explorer Photographs Beautiful Worlds Like These -- But The Most Popular One Here May Surprise You
• This Flickr Creator Makes Second Life Look Like Paintings You Can Visit
• How To Play With Second Life's Puppetry Project -- If You're Hardcore!
• Second Life Users: Media On A Prim Griefer Exploit Discovered; Update Your Firestorm Viewer!
• Midjourney Solely Credited As Article Illustrator In Major News Publication

Top Posts: User-Made SL Commerce Tools Acquired by Linden Lab & I Talk About Metaverse Sex & Other Topics on a Steampunk Train

• Watch: Chatting Second Life, Metaverse News & Virtual Sex On A Steampunk Train
• The Community-Made Train Systems Of Second Life Are Over 15 Miles Long -- Take This Map To Start Riding!
• Linden Lab Buys User-Made Commerce System Too Valuable To The Second Life Community To Fail
• Best Laptops For Second Life: Recent MacBook Air Model Runs SL Surprisingly Well (With Some Graphics Settings Tweaked)
• Monday Memory: Before Mesh, Amazing Avatars Walked The Virtual World

Top Posts Last Week, Including: Great VRChat Worlds & Mourning a Real Queen's Passing in Virtual London

"RIP Queen Elizabeth II" , shot in St Alban's Church in Alba:

• VRChat Tips: Five Amazing Worlds To Visit Recommended By A Top Explorer
• Sannyのおすすめバーチャルワールドニュース : 2022年8月 Sanny Reports For Virtual Japan
• London In Second Life Flooded With Mourners & Well-Wishers At News Of Queen Elizabeth's Death
• Best Laptops For Running Second Life: ASUS - ROG Zephyrus Recommended For Great Graphics & Power, MacBook Air For Lightweight Access
• Monday Memory: Mathematician Makes A Tesseract House In The Metaverse