New World Notes

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

Top Four New World Notes Posts Last Week: Who's Building a True Metaverse, New EU Rules Threaten Metaverse's Future, and More

• Cassie's Clips: How To Give Second Life Avatar Pics More Fluidity & Realism
• Is Dual Universe Closest To Being A True "Metaverse"? Virtual World Expert Who Helped Define The Term Says So -- And Not Sansar, High Fidelity, Etc.
• "Surrender Or Fight" -- EU Passes Copyright Directive That's "Extinction-Level Event" For User-Creation Content Platforms, Including Worlds Like Minecraft, Roblox, Second Life, VRChat & High Fidelity
• SLers Of Reddit Mourn Beloved Second Life Places Long Since Gone

Top 5 New World Notes Posts Last Week: SL Glitches as Art, Another High Fidelity Concurrency Record, and Much More

• High Fidelity sets new local concurrency record with 350+ avatars
• There's A Baby Metal Tribute Group In Second Life
• Horrific Second Life Avatar Glitches Hilariously Depicted By Beloved Pop Artist Nylon Pinkney
• Asia One: Artist Who Created Second Life's RMB City Debuts Latest Work At New York's Guggenheim
• How To Understand Black Dragon: Tips & Design Notes From The Creator Of The Amazing, Unconventional Second Life Viewer

Top 7 NWN Posts from Last Week: New Look at Magic Leap AR, Decentraland Speculation, New SL Continent, Much More

• Virtual World/Social VR Survey Results Show Strong Interest In Second Life, "Sons Of SL", And VRChat
• Loving Magic Leap: A Veteran Virtual World/VR Developer Explains Why
• Survey: Strong Majority Of Tech Workers Want Twitter To Ban Alex Jones -- But Most Tech Workers AT Twitter Don't
• Coders Re-Create Blade Runner's Voice-Controlled Esper Machine As A Chrome Web App
• Will Decentraland Property Speculation Hurt Decentraland As A Virtual World? The Founder Argues Otherwise
• Vice's Motherboard Features Izzy Button's Realistic Imperfections For Default Perfect SL Avatars
• Linden Lab Secretly Building New SL Continent With Friendly Emoji Island

Top 6 New World Notes Posts from Last Week: Avatars with Stretch Marks, a Mobile Viewer for Second Life, and Much More

• Cassie's Clips: Previewing The Amazing New Lelutka Axis HUD For Customizing Highly Detailed SL Avatar Expressions
• High Fidelity's Stable, User-Friendly Blockchain-Based Cryptocurrency Now Exchangeable For US Dollars
• Sansar Concurrency Remains Flat Despite New Hangout Space For Major ESports Brand
• Now Popular In Second Life: Realistic Imperfection, Including Cellulite & Stretch Marks For Female Avatars
• Community Members Of Defunct Inworldz Rally To Crowdfund New World
• Linden Lab Creating IOS & Android Versions Of SL, Job Listing Suggests

Top 5 New World Notes Posts Last Week: A VR Game About Virtual Experiences of Childhood & a Viewer That Makes SL Look Like a AAA Game

• Cassie's Clips: Exploring The SL Shopping Extravaganza Of Equal 10
• Ana Ribeiro On Creating Pixel Ripped 1989, Her Acclaimed VR Game That Virtually Recreates The Retro Games Of Childhood
• What SL Screenshots Look Like When Taken In The Black Dragon Viewer
• Google Employees Strongly Support Building Censored Search Engine For China, According To Anonymous Blind Survey
• If You Want To Sandbox Build On Harvard's Second Life Sim, You Still Can

Top 5 New World Notes Posts Last Week: From an AI Teaching an Avatar to Dribble to an Avatar Teaching Others How to Avoid Online Addiction

• Cassie's Clips: How To Cope With Online World Addiction
• High Fidelity Breaks Another Local Concurrency Record With 250+ Users -- Though VRChat Remains The Social VR Concurrency Champion
• Watch An AI-Controlled Avatar "Learn" How To Dribble In Real Time - Huge Implications For Games, AR/VR, And Real Life Robotics
• Many Former InWorldz Users Departing To Other OpenSim Worlds -- But Few, So Far, To Second Life
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater Imported Into Sinespace; Visit Via The Web
• Women & RL Height Displays Have Been Driving Down The Size Of Formerly Gargantuan Avatars

Top 7 New World Notes Posts from Last Week: The Games Women Really Play, The Avatar Campaign Kardashian Called For, Much More

• Watch: How To Manage Your SL Inventory The Cassie Middles Way
• Woman With Failing Eyesight Creates WindLight Filters To Make Second Life Look Brighter, More Beautiful -- Then Gives Them Away For Free
• In Massive Gamer Survey, 79% Of Females Under 30 Classify As Core/Hardcore -- Overwatch, LoL & Fallout 4 Among Their Favorites
• Kim Kardashian Personally Requested Her Second Life Avatar-Based Social Media Campaign, Says SL Creator
• Watch: Sinespace's New Multi-User, Real-Time Creation Tools For VR & PC, Featured Today In UploadVR
• Users Of Now-Closed Inworldz Reportedly Planning To Launch New World
• Did Fragile Male Egos Of Real Life Men Cause Second Life's Giant Crisis?

Top 6 New World Notes Posts: How Avatar Height Hurts a Virtual Economy, Trump Doesn't Help Twitter, and Much More

• Twitter Use In United States Stagnant Since 2016 Election -- No Trump Bump, According To SimilarWeb
• Casja's Choices: Second Life Artists Create Imagery Protesting Trump's Separation Of Refugee Families
• Avatar Users Saw The "Real You Online" Catastrophe Coming Years Ago
• Inworldz, SL/OpenSim Spinoff, Launches Last-Ditch Gofundme To Survive
• Asian Fetishizing & Cultural Misrepresentation Plagues Second Life Fashion, Says Japanese Fashionista
• Avatar Height, Hunter Walk, And How The Prisoner's Dilemma Of User Choice Has Crippled The Second Life Economy