One of the panelists at the Metaverse U conference just mentioned that he doesn’t live in California, so he had to get on an airplane to come to Stanford to talk about virtual worlds, and how hypocritical that is. Good point! Right now the technology is really not quite advanced enough to have really [...]

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After a break, the Metaverse U conference is resuming. During the break, one of the other attendees told me in IM (instant messaging) that he’s blogged about this event, too.
There is a panel discussion being introduced now. The panel are Christian Renaud, Chief Architect of Networked Virtual Environments at Cisco Technology Center, Byron Reeves, a [...]

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I’m not going to try to blog the content of the presentations. Those will be posted online soon at the Metaverse U website, so to try to capture it here would be redundant as well as impossible for me.
It’s really cool that the chatter in SL is being discussed in the Q&A session following Ginsu [...]

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The chatter in SecondLife, done in text that everyone within “earshot” (25 meters) can read, makes an interesting backdrop to the speakers on the video screen. It would be rude in RL (Real Life), but it’s customary in SecondLife, and adds a whole new dimension to presentations. The comments, some serious, some joking, in [...]

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Someone on the ground at Stanford who’s also in SecondLife just said there are about 150 people at the Metaverse U conference. There are 72 people attending in SecondLife. Mike Liebhold from Institute for the Future just finished speaking, following Jerry Pfaffendorf from the Metaverse Roadmap project.

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