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You're enabling the creation of movies built on regurgitated / scraped / infringing content *while at the same time* making up shit about beloved movies that are national treasures. 👇🏼 x.com/slhamlet/statu…

Grow a Garden on Roblox today hit a Player Count Record larger than the Top 5 Steam game records combined. That's right, just one game.

Here is a recent landscape i have created in Second Life

Happy Monday! Here's the latest top New World Notes stories -- two on VRChat's evolving creator economy, two on Second Life losing users while still gaining user innovation, and one hilariously infuriating use case of Gen AI: 👇 nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/06/sl…

Ron was best man at a gay wedding you dumb fuck. #HappyPride

Alex Valentine Lew Turbo In a survey of Second Life merchants for my upcoming SL economy report, a massive majority of 67% want 3D content with Gen AI elements regulated or banned outright from Second Life. 👇 nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/05/ge…

Richard Brody I want Wes Anderson to shoot the next John Wick spinoff like this, scored entirely by Iggy. youtube.com/watch?v=XQbhux…

Cool to see VRChat's long-awaited in-platform avatar marketplace finally go live. I expect this roll-out will greatly increase VRChat the company's revenue, as avatars are key to expression among its estimated 10 million monthly active users. nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/06/vr…

NEW: I asked #SecondLife merchants about the MAJOR improvements to the virtual world economy that would most benefit them, and these five got the most votes in my survey by far. 👇 nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/06/sl…

「ガチャ復活」「LLの大胆な新戦略クリエイター・パートナーシップ・プログラムに300人以上が申請」「PBR時代のグラフィック重視Apertureビューワの登場」など、5月は、SL頑張ってるニュースが続きました。そして、Daniel Voyager の冷静な統計結果も話題です。Wagner James Au Second Life

Great points by ✨Case✨! 👇 "While XR devices like VisionPro do re-create home and office setups and allow for vast screen real estate, they lack a true sense of location. Evolution shaped our brains to operate differently depending on whether we’re traveling or at home."

This is cool: Deadpool's dance from "Deadpool & Wolverine" officially available for your Second Life avatar! It's a mocap of dancer Nick Pauley AKA Dancepool, who actually performed the opening scene of the movie for Ryan Reynolds. Info/SLurl here: nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/06/de…

New piece for Fast Company Why Apple’s VisionPro won’t make XR headsets mainstream fastcompany.com/91345736/why-a…

Happy Monday! Here's the latest metaverse platform news & culture from New World Notes, featuring the launch of VRChat's long awaited avatar marketplace, and a look at how Pride Month is celebrated virtually in Second Life . 👇 nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/06/vr…

Really interesting points about Vision Pro & XR headsets in general from ✨Case✨. I'm skeptical HMDs will ever go mass market for various reasons, but Amber makes a deeper argument that they run counter to how we've evolved to learn and remember:👇 fastcompany.com/91345736/why-a…

New World Notes, the most-read news / culture blog devoted to Second Life & other virtual worlds, is looking for smaller, newer, lesser-known SL brands to feature in our Rising SL Star Search series! Click below to nominate your favorite rising star! 👇 nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/06/ne…

DISNEY AND UNIVERSAL SUE MIDJOURNEY!!!! nytimes.com/2025/06/11/bus…

Hello AWE !! Now selling and signing "Making a Metaverse That Matters" by the front desk! Special #AWE discount and also get a free 2025 afterword.

Proud of you. Ever wanted to know how I built Blueberry? James gave life to my story as an entrepreneur and so much more. Thank you James 🙏🏻💕