New World Notes

Top Six Posts from Last Week, Featuring ChatGPT to Create Virtual World Landscapes & a Survey for Second Life Merchants

• SL Merchants: Please Take This Short Anonymous Survey On The Second Life Economy For My Upcoming Report!
• How Immersive Virtual Worlds Can Transform People For The Better: Excerpt, Making A Metaverse That Matters
• Kickstart This: Update A Groundbreaking Mixed Reality Hide-And-Seek For IOS/Android -- Jim "Babbage" Purbrick Is Helping Develop!
• WATCH ChatGPT Generate Working Terrain In A Virtual World When Prompted
• SL Mobile App Access To Adult-Rated Regions Inevitably Removed
• Her Starring Scarlett Johansson Actually Has More Interesting Things To Say About AI Than Either Sam Altman Or His Detractors Think

Top 5 Post Including: Best Practices For Building Virtual Worlds & Top Game Writers Discuss How AI Will Change Storytelling in Games

• Two Best Practices For Building Virtual Worlds -- Excerpt, Making A Metaverse That Matters
• How Will AI Change Storytelling In Games? Leigh Alexander & Writers For Divinity: Original Sin 2 & Deus Ex Have Nuanced Takes
• What Questions Should I Ask SL Content Creators In My Upcoming Report Of The Virtual World's UGC Economy?
• Cajsa's Choices: SL Monochrom, A Flickr Group Devoted To Beautifully Photographing The Virtual World In Black & White.
• Sannyのおすすめバーチャルワールドニュース : 2024年4月 Sanny Reports For Virtual Japan

Top 5 Posts Including an Innovative OpenSim Virtual World & a New Way for Non-Gamers to Explore Virtual Worlds

• Exploring Wolf Grid, OpenSim World With AI Integration & Other Innovations. Only 3 Years Old, Its Landmass Is Already Larger Than Second Life.
• HoloBike: New VR-Free Virtual World For Exercise Bikes Launches On Kickstarter
• Successful Mixed Reality Social Experiences Need A Shared Virtual Workspace
• Why Crack Den Keeps Thriving: Community Members Share Stories (And IRL Marriages) From Second Life's Long-Running Urban Roleplay MMO
• Today's SL Flickr Pick: Breathtaking Imagery By "Cyp Hill"

Top 6 Posts, Including: Designing Social Experiences for Apple Vision Pro, Amazing Trailer for Long-Running Mini-MMO Crack Deck, and Rod Humble's Life by You Goes Early Access in June

• Linden Lab Updates Policies Around Ageplay, Favoritism, Community Relations After Investigation
• WATCH: Teal's Amazing New Machinima Devoted To Crack Den, The Second Life-Based Urban Roleplay MMO With A Deep & Detailed Story
• Designing Good Mixed Reality Social Experiences With Vision Pro's Ghostly Personas
• Wishlist Life By You On Steam / Epic: Ambitious Sandbox Sim From Ex-Linden CEO Rod Humble Goes Early Access This June
• WATCH: Disney's HoloTile Points To Solutions Around VR's Motion Sickness / Headset-Centric Challenge
• Microsoft Copilot Seems Better Than ChatGPT At Summarizing My Writing -- But Still Adds Errors!

Top 5 Posts Including: Why Vision Pro Sales Aren't "Slow", and Writers' Real Problem With ChatGPT

• Vision Pro Developer: Don't Expect An Apple IPhone-Level Launch When It's More Like Apple Lisa.
• Try Equimake: Real-Time, Multi-User Collaborative Building -- On The Web!
• As A Writer, I Don't Feel Threatened By ChatGPT -- It Can't Even Accurately Summarize My Own Writing!
• Linden Lab Payment Spinoff Tilia Acquired By Fintech Company Thunes; Second Life Staffer Promises No Additional Costs For SLers
• Watch Me Talk About Second Life, VRChat & The Metaverse On Belgian TV!

Top 5 Posts Including: Adam Schiff's Gen AI Copyright Disclosure Bill Applies to Games; Forecasting the 3 Body Problem's Virtual World Future

CONFIRMED: Adam Schiff's Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act Would Apply To Video Games, Virtual Worlds & Metaverse Platforms

Seeking Media / Business Partners As New World Notes Expands Reach!

When Can We Create Something Like 3 Body Problem's Virtual World With Full Body VR? Forecasts By Philip Rosedale, Raph Koster & Other Experts

Second Life Community Social Feeds Swamped By AI-Enhanced Images, Creating Craving For "Real" Avatar Photos

Alchemy Third-Party Viewer Now Includes PBR Graphics Features -- Watch These Demo Videos, Read More Details!

Top 5 Posts Including: VR Nausea & Gender Study Ignored by Industry, Rec Room on Vision Pro, and More!

US Government-Funded Researchers Found That Women Using Quest Devices Much More Likely To Experience VR Nausea. No One In Meta/The VR Industry Has Contacted Them About It.

Damaged Avatars: Style Choice, Or Expressions Of RL Sadism/Self-Harm/Misogyny?

Text Bridge Sends Chat From Second Life To Discord -- And Vice Versa!

Watch: Running Rec Room On Apple Vision Pro (Via IVRy Driver For SteamVR)

What LLM-Driven NPC Designers Could Learn From Game Designer Brenda Laurel

Top 5 Posts Including: A New, Ethically-Sourced Generative AI Platform & the Trouble With LLM-Powered Bots in Virtual Worlds

Above:  Real-life model/influencer Kate Purt, generated by Makery.AI creator vAIsual from a few hundred images of Kate -- with her full and prior consent

• 10 Years Ago, After Facebook Bought Oculus, A Top Academic Warned About VR Causing Females Nausea. No One At Facebook/Meta Followed Up.
• Virtual World Users Hilariously Troll LLM-Powered Bots -- And Illustrate The Limits Of AI-Based NPCs
• Second Life Overwhelmed By Virtual Fashion Shopping Events & Consumerism, Argues Longtime SL Blogger
• Best 3D Engine For Creating In Vision Pro? An XR Engineer Compares/Contrasts Unreal To Unity's PolySpatial
• Can Makery.AI Create A New Marketplace Of AI-Based Content Built Only On Authorized/Licensed Training Data?

Top 5 Posts Including: Meeting Linden Lab's AI-Powered NPCs & Untangling Myths of Metaverse Interoperability

Like Talking With ChatGPT In A Tank Top: Convai's AI-Powered Second Life Bots Already Lounging At A Beach -- Here's What They Told Me!

To Find Great Second Life-Based Images On Flickr, Check The Faves Of Great SL Artists On Flickr. Here's Some Of My Favorite Faves!

VRChat IPhone/IPad App Coming Soon? "IOS" User Recently Spotted Online

Watch: Why Creating Diverse Communities Make The Metaverse Matter

Myths Of Metaverse Interoperability -- And Why Community Counts More.

 

Top 4 Posts Including the Coming of AI-Powered Helper Bots in Second Life, and Roblox's Competitive Rise Against TikTok

• Watch: Can Convai's Intelligent Bots Help Grow Second Life's User Base?
• Jeri Ellsworth's Tilt Five Offering A Lightweight, Low Cost Alternative To Apple Vision Pro's Spatial Computing Vision
• BREAKING: Linden Lab Officially Confirms "Thorough Investigation" Of Serious Allegations Recently Posted To Social Media
• Universal Music, Which Just Pulled Its Music From TikTok, Officially Announces Partnership With Roblox