New World Notes

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

Top 7 New World Notes Posts from Last Week: Waning VR Usage, VRChat Growth, Virtual World Flickr Panic, and Much More

• VRChat Reports 50,000 In Its Discord -- Good Estimate Of Its Active User Base
• Cassie's Clips: Exploring Somewhere In Time, A Magical, Snow-Covered Second Life Sim For Winter Holiday Roleplay & Photographic Fun
• Flickr CEO Confirms Virtual World Photographers "Are Photographers"
• Kaoruco City, Jaw-Dropping Second Life Sim Inspired By Blade Runner And Other Cyberpunk Classic, Opens -- Watch The Trailer!
• Black Dragon Update: Control Multiple Animated Avatars At The Same Time
• Sansar To Close Sandex, Move Platform To Steam In Search Of VR Users
• Oculus & Vive Usage Appears To Be Flat Or Declining, According To Steam Stats, Sales Estimates

Top 7 New World Posts from Last Week: From VR & AR Innovation to Social VR's Struggle for Traction

• Watch: Dazzling Demo Of Fluid Physics In Augmented Reality
• What Developers Should Know About Unity 3D's Entity Component System For Building Massive Game Worlds
• Social VR Infographics For Consumers & Developers: How Do VRChat, Rec Room, High Fidelity & Many Others Stack Up Against Each Other?
• Sons Of Second Life Status: Sansar Attracting More Website Visits, High Fidelity Attracting More Monthly Social VR Users
• Sansar User Growth Slowed By Massive Experience Downloads Up To TWENTY-FOUR Gigabytes
• Isotopium: A Real World Virtual World That's A Scale Model Of A City & The Avatars Are Internet-Controlled Drones
• Oculus Co-Founder Who Wanted To Build A "Billion Person Virtual World" Departs Facebook, Decrying Company's "Race To The Bottom" With Standalone Headsets

Top 7 NWN Posts from Last Week: From a Stranger Things Tribute in Second Life to a Sociologist's Meeting With a Disabled Woman in the Virtual Woods

• Second Life Avatar Fashion So Confusing & Complicated There Are Professional Makeover Agencies
• New VR Program Trains People For Public Speaking -- But A Social VR Version Would Be Even Better
• Mysterious New Second Life Continent Takes On Seahorse Shape, Grid Of Tracks, New Emoji Island
• Cassie's Clips: Exploring The "Absolutely Stunning" Second Life Recreation Of The Upside Down From Stranger Things
• Sansar & High Fidelity Not Growing Users Because They Miss The Point Of Social Virtual Worlds, Says Expert -- But He May Miss The Point Too
• Sociologist Meets A Second Life Fairy In The Virtual Woods -- And The Disabled Woman Behind The Keyboard
• Has Minecraft Prepared A New Generation For The Metaverse?

Top 7 New World Notes Posts from Last Week: An AI for VR, A New Mesh Head for SL and Much More

• Cassie's Clips: Previewing Genus, A New Mesh Head Now In Beta But Already Among The Best In Second Life
• How To Create Virtual Experiences That Evoke Awe -- Learn From Kant!
• Black Dragon Comes With Highly Detailed In-Viewer Poser For SL Avatars
• Watch: MICA, Magic Leap's Eerily Human AI Avatar Who Looks You In The Eye
• Second Life Private Sim Growth Continues With New Discount -- But Virtual Economy Expert Suspects It Won't Last
• Microsoft Follows Google Into AAA Game Streaming -- But Both Confuse Technical Capacity For Market Desire
• New Sinespace Update Includes Greatly Improved Avatars, In-World Scene Editor, Localization
• Linden Lab's Sansar Partners With Yet Another ESports Brand (Despite Little User Traction From ESports Fans So Far)

Top 7 New World Notes Posts from Last Week: Avatars After Death, Fan Tributes After Lawyer Threats, and Much More

• When Does A Successful Virtual World "End"?
• Linden Lab Update Borked Black Dragon's Viewer Frame Rate In Second Life
• Man Confronting Cancer Puts His Virtual World Avatars Into His Real Life Will
• Warning To Virtual World Star Trek Fans: CBS Sent Cease-And-Desist To Fan-Made VR Recreation Of The Enterprise
• Google Launching OnLive-Type Game Streaming Service -- Here's How To Sign-Up As A Tester
• LA Times Features Anthropologist's US Government-Funded Study Of How Virtual Worlds Affect Disabled Users
• Cassie's Clips: Unboxing The New Builder's Box Of Beautiful SL Housewares

Top 7 New World Notes Posts from Last Week: From a New AR Experience in Los Angeles to a New Update of Black Dragon in Second Life and Beyond

• Now In LA: Experience Awesome 3D Video & Machine Learning-Based Music Projected On The Walt Disney Concert Hall -- Adaptive Sound Artist Robert Thomas On How The Soundtrack Was Created
• Sinespace Featured On VentureBeat With Report On New User Growth & Revenue Numbers, Certified Creators Program
• Black Dragon Second Life Viewer Adds Full Animesh Support With Custom Animation Control - Great Tool For Machinima, Group Shots
• Another Look At AnyLand: Social VR With Prim-Based Building, A New PC Client & 10,000+ User-Created Areas
• Divisive SL Secrets Gossip Blog Relaunching As Virtual Secrets Site For Multiple MMOs - But Not Due To Recent Second Life Ban, Insists Co-Founder
• Who Really Wants A Massive, Contiguous, Single-Shard Virtual World To Explore?

Top 6 NWN Posts from Last Week: Gossip Blog Endangers Virtual Community, Recession in the Virtual Economy & Building the Metaverse

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• Inside Secrets: Did Linden Lab Ban The Owners Of Second Life’s Largest Blog To “Protect” The Virtual Community?
• Philip Rosedale On High Fidelity: Yes, We're Building A True Metaverse
• Shy Guy Becomes Live Dance Star On VRChat With Full Body Tracking
• Sinespace Launches New Teaser Featuring User-Created Scenes, Avatars, Poses, Animations, Scripted Games & Vehicles, In-Game 3D Model Editing, & RL Facial Capture In Unity-Based MMO
• Signs Of SL Recession: Despite 30K Users & $300K In Transactions, Second Life Shopping Delivery Service Pocket Gacha Closes
• Most Virtual Worlds "Going Backwards" From Second Life's Original Single Sharded Vision