gamestate » slactions http://www.gamestate.org all games are serious games (but some games are more serious than others) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:47:05 +0000 en hourly 1 The Metaverse (Some Assembly Required) http://www.gamestate.org/2009/03/the-metaverse-some-assembly-required/ http://www.gamestate.org/2009/03/the-metaverse-some-assembly-required/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:35:13 +0000 Garrison http://www.gamestate.org/?p=569 D. Linda Garcia and I, together with Hanan Gazit at H.I.T., will serve as guest editors for a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. In addition to regular papers, the special issue will feature some of the papers presented at the SLACTIONS conference in late September.

The metaverse is emerging, through the increasing use of virtual world technologies that act as platforms for end-users to create, develop, and interact, expanding the realm of human cooperation, interaction, and creativity. The conference focus is scientific research on applications and developments of these metaverse platforms: Second Life, OpenSim, Open Croquet, Activeworlds, Open Source Metaverse, Project Wonderland, and others, providing a forum for the research community to present and discuss innovative approaches, techniques, processes, and research results.

For more information, see the JVWR site. (And be sure to check out their new issue — guest-edited by Mia and Mark and featuring, among others, a nice article by Burcu and a roundtable with amazing Sarah and brilliant Liz).

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