Mike Liebold: Technology should do more cross-discipline research instead of parallel development of augmented reality, mirror worlds, lifelogging or virtual worlds.

Gene Yoon: The danger of predictions (and hyping) and how real life doesn’t always translate into Virtual Environments (Laws and relations), and sometimes it does (emotions)

Conversation 1 (Christian Renaud of Cisco, Byron Reeves of Seriosity, Reuben Steiger of Millions of Us: The Future of the Virtual Workplace has high potential but a long way to go on trust.

Tony Parisi: Virtual worlds have already seen a hype/bust, we are in a stage of continuation currently driven by techonolgy. Virtual Worlds are a mediatype, not an application.

Conversation 2 (Raph Koster, Corey Ondrejka, Howard Rheingold): How to (not) manage communities. Issues with ‘Avatar communities’ are presence, identity, privacy (tracking) and Avatar rights. Communities are essential to retain attention and a loyal userbase. ‘The glue of the Metaverse’.

Taylor & Bailenson: On the connection between the Virtual and physical Body - what an avatar should/could be. A number of experiments of RL and VW ‘avatar’ interaction’ and the psychology of the avatar. (great presentation!)

Brewster Kahle & Henry Lowood: The importance and application of ‘Virtual World preservation’. A building a time machine between Virtual Worlds in various stages by linking (meta) information to VW data, or reversed, creating Mirror Worlds as a time machine for the real world.