• What Went Wrong with Horizon Worlds? https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2025/03/horizon-worlds-meta-why-failed.html 1 comment 13/3/2025
• Borges' infinite Library Of Babel with infinite books re-created in VRChat https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2023/10/borges-vrchat-metaverse-library-of-babel.html 4 comments 19/10/2023
• Philip Rosedale: We need Nostr to prevent the coming catastrophe of AI deepfakes https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2023/03/nostr-ai-philip-rosedale.html 2 comments 2/3/2023
• Richard Bartle explains Web3's flaws at a Web3 conference. It doesn't go well https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2023/02/richard-bartle-crypto-circle-blockchain-nft-virtual-worlds.html 89 comments 1/2/2023
• Dear media: Stop illustrating Metaverse articles with pics of people in VR https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2023/01/time-metaverse-wrong-cover.html 6 comments 18/1/2023
• Meta staff's confidence in Metaverse and Zuckerberg explaining it drops sharply https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2023/01/meta-metaverse-blind-survey.html 3 comments 4/1/2023
• Meta's new vision of the future doesn't mention “the metaverse” even once https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2022/12/meta-reality-labs-metaverse-bosworth.html 3 comments 21/12/2022
• Artist feeds childhood diary into GPT-3 to have a chat with herself https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2022/11/michelle-huang-ai-art-gpt-diary-conversation.html 97 comments 30/11/2022
• Carmack: Quest2 Price Raised B/C VRChat/RecRoom More Popular Than Quest's Games https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2022/10/carmack-meta-price-increase-quest.html 2 comments 12/10/2022
• More People Own Items in Second Life Than Own NFTs https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2022/01/second-life-nft-ownership-rate.html 23 comments 4/1/2022
• AOC's Twitch viewership already competitive with FOX and MSNBC ratings https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2020/10/aoc-gov-among-us-stream-youtube.html 2 comments 21/10/2020
• Staff at Top Tech Companies Less Liberal Than Often Assumed, Biden survey https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2020/09/-blind-survey-trump-biden-tech-survey.html 5 comments 2/10/2020
• Most Facebook staff believe company NOT responsible for curbing election disinfo https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2020/09/blind-anonymous-messaging-app-facebook-election-interference-zuckerberg.html 20 comments 15/9/2020
• VRChat concurrency steadily returning to “Ugandan Knuckles” peak of 2018 https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2020/05/vrchat-concurrency-growth-steam.html 3 comments 5/5/2020
• As Covid-19 response, Linden Lab discounts Second Life for schools/non-profits https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2020/03/sl-education-non-profit-discount.html 10 comments 13/3/2020
• “Snowcrash” to be HBO series, compete with actual early Metaverses for viewers https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/12/neal-stephenson-snowcrash-metaverse-magic-leap-hbo-series.html 119 comments 16/12/2019
• Real world location virtually recreated to scale in minutes [video] https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/08/volumetric-mirror-world-mapping-6d_ai.html 58 comments 20/8/2019
• Things We Lost in the Flood: A Massively Multiplayer Loneliness Simulator https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/06/things-we-lost-in-the-flood-mmo-indie-game.html 46 comments 19/6/2019
• Why “the Metaverse” needs gameplay and gameplay mechanics https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/06/philip-rosedale-metaverse-gameplay-mechanics.html 28 comments 6/6/2019
• Afrofuturist Portraits Created with Deep Dream Algorithms https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/01/nettrice-gaskins-art-afrofuturist-kendrick-sade-nnedi-ai-deep-dream.html 14 comments 1/2/2019
• Machine Learning Music Composed by Fragments of 100s of Terabytes of Recordings https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/01/wdch-dreams-robert-thomas-la-phil.html 24 comments 16/1/2019
• Virtual Reality Version of Second Life with Open Source Code https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2019/01/windows-mixed-reality-firestorm-sl-vr-open-source.html 2 comments 10/1/2019
• Tumblr Tagging Virtual Lesbian Images as “NSFW” – But Virtual Female Nipples OK? https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2018/12/sl-pics-tumblr-female-presenting-nipple-virtual.html 2 comments 4/12/2018
• Oculus and Vive Usage Appears to Be Flat or Declining https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2018/10/vr-active-users-steam-september-2018-road-to-vr.html 20 comments 29/10/2018
• Facebook monthly visits down 5% in April http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2018/05/facebook-similarweb-cambridge-analytica.html 96 comments 9/5/2018
• Facebook Blocks Internet Pioneer “R.U. Sirius” http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2015/10/ru-sirius-facebook-ken-goffman.html 169 comments 29/10/2015

• When can humans make the VR/virtual world in Netflix's "3 Body Problem"? I asked Philip Rosedale and other experts https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2024/04/3-body-problem-virtual-world-vr-rosedale-koster.html 15 comments 18/4/2024 futurology
• Debate: How much will AI change movies & music? A writer says "some", an engineer says "all". https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2023/11/will-ai-transform-movies-music-debate.html 34 comments 22/11/2023 artificial
• Apple quietly promoting full VR applications on Vision Pro to devs in "mullet strategy" https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2023/06/apple-vision-pro-vr-metaverse-applicatons-wwdc-2023.html 3 comments 7/6/2023 apple
• Roblox hiring web3 engineer to put virtual world items & transactions on the blockchain https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2022/08/roblox-blockchain-web3-items.html 12 comments 4/8/2022 ethereum
• Richard Bartle releases his classic “Designing Virtual Worlds” book for free https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2021/08/richard-bartle-designing-virtual-worlds-free-book.html 4 comments 19/8/2021 gamedev
• Study: Virtual Reality Seems to Help Prime People to Have Lucid Dreams https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2020/12/vr-lucid-dreaming-experiment.html 7 comments 17/12/2020 science
• Facebook Use Has Been Steadily Dropping Since the 2016 US Election http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2018/05/facebook-use-dropped-sharply-after-the-us-election.html 44 comments 18/5/2018 worldnews
• Facebook estimate site numbers DD post-scandal, maybe we'll see decreased revenue next earnings. http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2018/05/facebook-similarweb-cambridge-analytica.html 13 comments 9/5/2018 wallstreetbets
• Facebook Loses 1.3 Billion Monthly Visits After Cambridge Analytica Scandal http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2018/05/facebook-similarweb-cambridge-analytica.html 9 comments 9/5/2018 technology
• Decentraland's Project Lead On Why The Ethereum-Powered Open Metaverse Uses Web VR Technologies -- And Isn't "Vaporware" http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2017/10/decentraland-virtual-world-mmo-ethereum-1.html 22 comments 20/10/2017 ethereum
• The Internet of Things Has Become an Existential Threat - Raph Koster http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2017/06/raph-koster-internet-threat-petya-ransomware.html 3 comments 28/6/2017 technology
• "How can Bitcoin be a revolutionary currency when it's actually used as a currency far less than Linden Dollars in Second Life?" http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2013/11/bitcoin-overhype.html 254 comments 21/11/2013 technology
• *Real Steel* for real (really.) http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2012/02/mocap-driven-robot-control-created-by-vr-researcher.html 16 comments 23/2/2012 robotics
• User Builds Artificial Ecosystems, Intelligence and Evolution in Second Life http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2006/05/god_game.html 2 comments 1/6/2006 reddit.com