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Survey: Nearly 1 in 4 Second Life Merchants Make $50,000 or More a Year from the Virtual World 22% of SL merchants surveyed in my 2025 state of the Second Life economy report-- nearly 1 in 4 -- earn real life income-levels of revenue from their Second Life content. By "real life income", I mean...

New World Notes: Survey: Nearly 1 in 4 Second Life Merchants Make $50,000 or More a Year from the Virtual World nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/06/...

How Virtual Reality Could Dismantle Gender Bias Can stepping into a different body in virtual reality change our gender bias? A surprising study suggests it just might.

How Virtual Reality Could Dismantle Gender Bias | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/vrtu...

All About Aperture: Why William Weaver Created a Whole New Way of Seeing Second Life Originally published on my Patreon. Since then, Weaver tells me Aperture has been downloaded over 1500 times and has been added to Linden Lab's official Third Party Viewer Directory What you're watchi...

New World Notes: All About Aperture: Why William Weaver Created a Whole New Way of Seeing Second Life nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/05/...

Linden Lab Launches Creator Partnership Program to Help Grow Second Life -- Including Creators Outside SL Ecosystem Another piece of Linden Lab's strategy to grow the Second Life user base was just revealed: We’re excited to unveil the Creator Partnership Program, a new initiative that invites our talented creator ...

New World Notes: Linden Lab Launches Creator Partnership Program to Help Grow Second Life -- Including Creators Outside SL Ecosystem nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/04/...

Bluesky Gains Twitter-Like Message Reactions and New Search Page Bluesky is rolling out a new update introducing features that might ease the transition for social media users coming over from X (Twitter). First...

Bluesky Gains Twitter-Like Message Reactions and New Search Page - MacRumors www.macrumors.com/2025/04/11/b...

It’s Nearly Mega Events Season Every year, I look forward to spring and early summer in Second Life. This is not just because I hope to escape the smothering clouds of pollen that are about to settle on my RL, but because it&#82…

It’s Nearly Mega Events Season – Thinking Outside the Plywood Box altathiemen.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/i...

Nature’s Painkiller: How Virtual Scenes Ease Pain in the Brain - Neuroscience News Viewing natural scenes can significantly reduce how people perceive pain, a new neuroimaging study has found.

Nature’s Painkiller: How Virtual Scenes Ease Pain in the Brain - Neuroscience News neurosciencenews.com/natures-pain...?

NHS Continues to Pioneer VR Patient Care - XR Today XR Today reports on the latest extended reality news from around the globe, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.

NHS Continues to Pioneer VR Patient Care - XR Today www.xrtoday.com/virtual-real...

Technology breakthrough as new device lets you taste cake in virtual reality From cake to coffee to fish soup, the new device could enhance our perception of taste

Technology breakthrough as new device lets you taste cake in virtual reality - Manchester Evening News www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands Soon no UK iCloud backups will be end-to-end encrypted.

Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands | The Verge www.theverge.com/news/617273/...

Last Week in Bluesky – 2025feb.c Social platforms are not, and can not, be neutral in a context of authoritarianism, and Bluesky cannot avoid this dynamic either. On a lighter note, many experiments with building image and video clie...

Last Week in Bluesky – 2025feb.c – The Fediverse Report fediversereport.com/last-week-in...

NHS Pushes Forward with Multi-Million Virtual Reality Training Project - XR Today XR Today reports on the latest extended reality news from around the globe, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.

NHS Pushes Forward with Multi-Million Virtual Reality Training Project - XR Today www.xrtoday.com/virtual-real...

The Death of the Internet and the Rebirth of Many to Come AI-derived content has taken over the internet and it’s unstoppable. What comes next?

The Death of the Internet and the Rebirth of Many to Come theology.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Newly discovered near-Earth asteroid isn't an asteroid at all — it's Elon Musk's trashed Tesla Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and its driver "Starman," which were launched into space in 2018.

Newly discovered near-Earth asteroid isn't an asteroid at all — it's Elon Musk's trashed Tesla | Live Science www.livescience.com/space/astron...?

Second Life’s loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections Inside the multiplayer virtual world of furries, glitchy landscapes, and digital slumlords, for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue

Second Life’s loyal users embrace its decaying software and no-fun imperfections www.documentjournal.com/2024/05/seco...

The second wave of immersive institutions has arrived—how can traditional museums and galleries harness their power? Museums and galleries have a fresh opportunity to work with a new type of digital art venue that is spreading around the world, with the power to tell interactive stories of cultural heritage to multi...

The second wave of immersive institutions has arrived—how can traditional museums and galleries harness their power? - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/29/t...

Welcome to the era of gangster tech regulation Trump has offered tech a way to buy itself out of consequences.

Welcome to the era of gangster tech regulation - The Verge www.theverge.com/2025/1/20/24...

Survey reveals public demand for virtual reality museum experiences - Museums Association Digitisation of collections could improve accessibility and attract younger audiences

Survey reveals public demand for virtual reality museum experiences - Museums Association www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

OSCC24 day2 4pm - Fireside Chat with Philip Rosedale YouTube video by AvaCon Inc

- Fireside Chat with Philip Rosedale - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o...

Political cartoonists on facing Donald Trump, again: 'There is no consensus reality anymore' - The Comics Journal Shrinking newspaper circulations. Social media morass. First amendment rights. Zach Rabiroff talks to a variety of cartoonists about all that and more as we head into a second Donald Trump administrat...

Political cartoonists on facing Donald Trump, again: 'There is no consensus reality anymore' - The Comics Journal www.tcj.com/political-ca...

Mastodon’s CEO and creator is handing control to a new nonprofit organization Mastodon says the decentralized network ‘should not be owned or controlled by a single individual.’

Mastodon’s CEO and creator is handing control to a new nonprofit organization - The Verge www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24...

Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking | TechCrunch Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen explosive rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark

Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/g...?

Innovate UK Offering Up to £3.7M for XR Mental Health Projects Innovate UK’s ‘Mindset Programme’ competition is offering up to £3.7 million for XR mental health projects | AR, VR and MR News from Auganix.org

Innovate UK Offering Up to £3.7M for XR Mental Health Projects www.auganix.org/xr-news-inno...

The rise and fall of robots.txt As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.

With the rise of AI, web crawlers are suddenly controversial - The Verge www.theverge.com/24067997/rob...

RLX Outfit Mesh Clothing: The Blender Add-On Revolutionizing Clothing Creation in Second Life › I Love Events The RLX Outfit Mesh Clothing add-on, in beta version, has been released for Blender versions 3.6 and 4.2. It is called Mesh Clothing and is a Blender add-on

RLX Outfit Mesh Clothing: The Blender Add-On Revolutionizing Clothing Creation in Second Life › I Love Events www.iloveevents.online/rlx-outfit-m...

Community outrage at anti-upskirting update in Zenless Zone Zero A recent update has sent the Zenless Zone Zero community into despair as the latest patch has removed the ability to look at the agents’ butts. Yep, you

Hilarious - Community outrage at anti-upskirting update in Zenless Zone Zero readwrite.com/community-ou...

OSCC24 day2 4pm - Fireside Chat with Philip Rosedale YouTube video by AvaCon Inc

- Fireside Chat with Philip Rosedale - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ1o...

this is such a great episode of @kentbye.com voices of vr. she is so well spoken. horrifying but also inspiring. voicesofvr.com/1490-any-war...

Musicians for Fairness & Preservation - For Sign-On Circulation Add your act to the letter here This letter is organized by artist-led activist collective Fight for the Future and a group of musicians who oppose Big Content’s attacks on the Internet Archive and be...

Musicians for Fairness & Preservation - For Sign-On Circulation - Google Docs docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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