Love to boil the oceans to make a non-game that looks worse than any novice's Unreal Engine asset flip Anyways, just like all the other non-usecases: managers who have no understanding of another space go "oh well this won't work in My area, but look how good this is! this'll definitely work THERE"

Google's Project Genie is yet another example of tech companies evincing utter obliviousness to what virtual game worlds actually are and why gamers love them. The problem is so obvious, it's even in the very demo video that Google just put out.👇

Bluesky "grew nearly 60% in 2025, from 25.9 million users to 41.2 million". 50 million is roughly when Twitter saw explosive network effect growth. Tell 9 million of your friends! techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/b...

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

I'm only finding out today that I'm lucky my current duplex and last three apartments haven't burned to the ground

Fun interview with S&P Global Market Intelligence industry analyst @neilalanbarbour.bsky.social on what went wrong with Meta's metaverse strategy -- and what other companies are getting right! 👇

NEW: I talk with filmmaker Ali Vatansever about "LifeLike", his award-winning new feature movie about a teenager with a terminal disease who finds solace and friendship in @vrchat.com. Plus a scene from VRChat and some behind the scenes production details! 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/vrchat...

I posted this report / interview on Reddit and several AI bros said, "gamers will get used to it." Great ad campaign idea: "Yes the game you're paying $65 for is full of AI slop. Get used to it."

Share with laid off Reality Labs staff (or anyone else in XR): My recent talk with Linden Lab head Bradford Oberwager on hiring a SVP of Engineering, part of his strategy to grow Second Life's user base (which ticked *up* by about 120K last year). 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/breaki...

This is the stupidest Terminator reboot ever.

NEW: Sam Altman may promise that with gen AI, "video games are going to become something unimaginably better." But a new report reveals that people who reliably spend the most money on games *hate* the idea of gen AI in them. Nick Yee and I discuss why below! 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/most-g...

Finally playing Cyberpunk 2077 was my immersive gaming highlight of last year, a mind-bogglingly deep, surprisingly moving open world RPG, as breathtaking as Keanu promised. Thrilled the game's creative director (& its sequel) @srznsk.bsky.social is on BSKY sharing behind the scenes insights. 👇

Patreon supporter shout-out to @lex4art.bsky.social, veteran virtual world builder and creator of UNIBLOCKS, a unified set of meshes & blueprints for quickly creating houses and other buildings in Unreal. Check it out on Lex's Fab store! 👇 www.fab.com/listings/fbb...

Finally playing Cyberpunk 2077 was my immersive gaming highlight of last year, a mind-bogglingly deep, surprisingly moving open world RPG, as breathtaking as Keanu promised. Thrilled the game's creative director (& its sequel) @srznsk.bsky.social is on BSKY sharing behind the scenes insights. 👇

Love this: @cajsa.bsky.social's top ten favorite Second Life-based images from 2025. Join my New World Notes Patreon to read for free! 👇🏼 www.patreon.com/posts/147117...

New Year's Eve gift: My top 18 favorite New Word Notes stories of 2025, including how Second Life avatars wound up on a NYC Times Square billboard, and Linden Lab's secret island of avatar dating bedrooms. Join my Patreon for free to read! 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/my-top...

New Year's Eve gift: My top 18 favorite New Word Notes stories of 2025, including how Second Life avatars wound up on a NYC Times Square billboard, and Linden Lab's secret island of avatar dating bedrooms. Join my Patreon for free to read! 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/my-top...

Please enjoy my top 10 free browser games of 2025: 1. Type Help william-rous.itch.io/type-help 2. Dragonsweeper danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper/ 3. Clues by Sam cluesbysam.com 4. Stimulation Clicker neal.fun/stimulation-... 5. The Collector split82.itch.io/the-collector

Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally. Just like it’s still the department of defense

New: I look @basisvr.org, an open source virtual world framework for VR/PC that just hit *679* local concurrent users in a stress test. (VRChat/SL can only do 250 max.) I talk w/lead dev @dooly123.bsky.social on what's next. Now free for all members of my Patreon: 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/146015...

New: I look @basisvr.org, an open source virtual world framework for VR/PC that just hit *679* local concurrent users in a stress test. (VRChat/SL can only do 250 max.) I talk w/lead dev @dooly123.bsky.social on what's next. Now free for all members of my Patreon: 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/146015...

Fun factoid from my interview w/ Linden Lab head Brad Oberwager: Linden Dollars in @secondlife.bsky.social are transacted about 1.5 MILLION times per day. 👇🏼 That's 3X the average number of daily Bitcoin transactions. Tell your tech bro pals: L$ is used far more than BTC to buy goods & sevices.😜

a16z gave a million dollars to a phone farm that's flooding TikTok with AI-generated influencers. A hacker contacted 404 Media to reveal what these accounts are and what products they're promoting www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

Got the inside word on the future of Second Life from Linden Lab's Brad Oberwager. He tells me why the company is making the most major team hire since Philip Rosedale rejoined as CTO & shares new milestones. Join my New World Notes Patreon to read it all here! 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/145551...

This entire weekend

Wow, just visited Monument in @vrchat.com and the Babel tower is still being built! But how tall is it now? It took me a good 5 minutes at a non-stop run to reach the top. For comparison, the world record for climbing to the top of the Empire State Building by stairs is under 10 min.

My latest round-up of news/trends I’m following across the wider metaverse ecosystem is up! 👇 Featuring a look at Basis from @dooly123.bsky.social, a virtual world framework that already has higher local concurrency than SL and VRChat, and aims to hit 600 this wkd. www.patreon.com/posts/new-wo...

Wow, just visited Monument in @vrchat.com and the Babel tower is still being built! But how tall is it now? It took me a good 5 minutes at a non-stop run to reach the top. For comparison, the world record for climbing to the top of the Empire State Building by stairs is under 10 min.

New podcast appearance! I talk with Player Driven about why the Metaverse matters even more now that Meta's quit the field. Around 22 minutes we get into the miraculous staying power of OG metaverse platform @SecondLife. 👂👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL9r...

NEW: I talk with @legend50210.bsky.social about how he & his collaborators shoot amazing machinima fight scenes in @vrchat.com even when performers are located around the world. All in-world, in-camera practical effects. You know, like Chris Nolan, but furry. 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/watch-...

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NEW: I talk with @legend50210.bsky.social about how he & his collaborators shoot amazing machinima fight scenes in @vrchat.com even when performers are located around the world. All in-world, in-camera practical effects. You know, like Chris Nolan, but furry. 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/watch-...

We saw this with NFTs/crypto and we saw it with "the Metaverse" (at least the bastardized version pushed by Zuckerberg et. al.), and now we're seeing it with Gen AI slop: Gamers, YouTubers, and other tech savvy online denizens are the ones leading an effective backlash against it.

NEW: Here's my seven personal favorite destinations from the Editor's Picks of the @secondlife.bsky.social Destination Guide for 2025, and why I love them. Read about them on my New World Notes Patreon 👇, then click the links visit them yourself! www.patreon.com/posts/145091...

Consider giving the gift of virtual world journalism and analysis with a subscription to my Patreon! Plus special benefits for subscribers including exclusive content, shout-outs, even consulting! 👇 www.patreon.com/c/u4843285

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Cyber Monday gift guide that's also highly calm 👇

“Even I have trepidations about what kind of future my son will grow up in as A.I. progresses. And I am far from alone,” writes Soulaiman Itani.

I am begging everyone in Los Angeles currently driving to Trader Joe's, Sprouts, or Whole Foods to realize that instead of blithely going right to the lot, you can usually find easy street parking a block or two away, sparing yourself & the LA polity untold levels of aggravation & murderous fury.

Getting sick and tired of all this "new chewing" and "new swallowing" I'm having to do lately

OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS

Could you highly esteemed mainstream journalists maybe check in with actual AI programmers like @hmason.bsky.social before gullibly gulping down the most egregious bullshit claims by AI hypesters trying to raise another round to fund their highly unprofitable, lawsuit-magnet, earth-destroying LLMs?

Could you highly esteemed mainstream journalists maybe check in with actual AI programmers like @hmason.bsky.social before gullibly gulping down the most egregious bullshit claims by AI hypesters trying to raise another round to fund their highly unprofitable, lawsuit-magnet, earth-destroying LLMs?

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Incredible piece of data journalism here from @wsj.com. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

It's like playing Deus Ex games where you hack into into e-mail servers and find out the bad guys are planning world domination in the most ham-handed obvious way.

when you wear a size 9.5 shoe but the 8.5 was on sale

Happy Monday! Here's the latest New World Newsfeed, featuring Disney's latest tiptoe into Fortnite, the glacial growth of VRChat's iOS app, and new engineering jobs at Linden Lab. All that and more on my Patreon, plus subscribe for special benefits! 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/new-wo...