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Top Five Posts Including a List of Web3-Based Virtual Worlds & a Updated Metaverse Platform Leader Chart

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/07/sl-vr-metaverse-news-july-2025.html

Published: July 14, 2025 19:02

Top Twelve Tips Veteran SL Merchants Wish They Knew Before Creating / Selling Content in Second Life SL Meshers/Riggers: How Much Money Do You Make Subcontracting in Second Life? Take This Anonymous Survey! Updating My Metaverse Platform Leader Chart…

Watch Me on a Live Recording of The 4th Wall, an SL Podcast -- Starting 1pm PT Today!

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/07/4th-wall-sl-podcast.html

Published: July 11, 2025 19:53

Starting at 1pm PT today, join me for a live recording of The Fourth Wall, a YouTube podcast, mostly devoted to Second Life's pro wrestling community (!). I'll be taking on Zuckerberg, crypto bros, and all the other heels out...

How Eleven VRChat Players in Full VR Rigs Around the World Recreated the Church Fight from Kingsman in Real Time -- Read on My Patreon

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/07/vrchat-machinimima-legend-kingsman.html

Published: July 11, 2025 18:53

This is such zany amazing coolness: To shoot it, each of these eleven players had to log in from around the world, perform separately in full-body VR rigs, and somehow, while hundreds or thousands of miles apart, still coordinate this...

Top Twelve Tips Veteran SL Merchants Wish They Knew Before Creating / Selling Content in Second Life

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/07/second-life-merchant-creative-advice.html

Published: July 10, 2025 19:46

Here's twelve highly useful tips from veteran SL creators, taken from the survey for my report on the state of the Second Life economy in 2025 (Patreon subscription required). I framed it in the form of the question, "What are...

Patreon Supporter Shout-Out: AvatarLife, Open Sim-Based Virtual World With 1200+ Users and Free Land for New Users

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/07/opensim-avatar-life-grid-virtual-world-web3.html

Published: July 10, 2025 19:24

Here’s my official shout-out to AvatarLife, a new Creator-level subscriber of my Patreon, and an OpenSim-based virtual world worth checking out. It was founded by Sushant AvatarLife (in-world name), who tells me the world has over 1200 monthly active…

Cajsa's SL Flickr Picks: Exquisitely Imaginative Images by Ayesha

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/07/ayesha-sl-flickr.html

Published: July 10, 2025 18:41

Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Ayesha recently posted “Fish Make Us Realize How Beautiful Silence Is,” one of a three-picture seat that is simply exquisite. The second picture zooms in on her...

SL Meshers/Riggers: How Much Money Do You Make Subcontracting in Second Life? Take This Anonymous Survey!

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/07/sl-survey-mesh-rigger-pay.html

Published: July 9, 2025 20:46

NOTE: Take survey using mouse/trackpad to scroll! Loading… Since my post on "Shadow Meshing in SL" attracted outsized interest and controversy, I'm delving deeper! Specifically, I want to know how much SL meshers and riggers are paid, on average, so...

Updating My Metaverse Platform Leader Chart for 2025: First Draft Numbers

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/07/metaverse-platform-top-players-2025.html

Published: July 9, 2025 20:21

I'm almost done writing a new 2025 edition afterword to my book, which means updating my top 10 chart of leading metaverse platforms. These are platforms which qualify under my book's broad definition of the technology: The Metaverse is a...

Cajsa's SL Flickr Pick: Amazing Images from Wonderland 2.0, Incredible New Sim Experience

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/07/-sl-wonderland-2-sim-flickr-pics.html

Published: July 9, 2025 17:47

Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Cat Afarensis posted this glorious picture to the Flickr group Wonderland 2.0, which is named after the sim Wonderland 2.0, Realm of Wonder. [To teleport, click here]...

The Pros of Shadow Meshing vs Going Solo in Second Life: One Mesh Maker's Take

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/07/shadow-mesher-second-life.html

Published: July 8, 2025 21:28

There's been a really interesting reader conversation in last month's article on "shadow mesh" subcontractors in SL, including these thoughts from Dino Sophers, who explains why they themselves prefer shadow meshing -- this is her subcontractor site, I…

What Blockchain/Web3 Virtual Worlds Should We Add to the Virtual Worlds Museum Gallery?

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/07/blockchain-web3-virtual-worlds-virtual-worlds-museum.html

Published: July 8, 2025 21:08

Check out our latest wing of the Virtual Worlds Museum (tm), this one devoted to Blockchain Worlds, i.e. virtual worlds integrated on some significant level with crypto/blockchain, or what's often called web3. This is very much a work in progress,...

Cajsa's Second Life Flickr Choices: Beautifully Framed Photos by Boots

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/07/sl-flickr-boots-cajsa.html

Published: July 8, 2025 18:00

Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting Boots ™ posted this marvelous “Be the Lighthouse” is a great example of clever framing, using the life preserver as a “viewing window” to see the lighthouse....

Top Four Posts Including "Gatekeeping" in SL Shopping Events & Philip Rosedale on the AI-Driven "Ultraviolet Catastrophe" Coming for the Internet

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/07/ai-sl-virtual-worlds-july-2025.html

Published: July 7, 2025 19:12

SL Brand Spotlight: Readers Recommend These Newer/Smaller Stores! Quality Control vs. Feudalism: Two Views on Second Life Shopping Event "Gatekeeping" Philip Rosedale Believes AI Will Soon Ruin the Internet As We Know It. So I Asked Him if He's Worried...