On this page you can see videos from the Metaverse U conference. All videos are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution license. To download videos or get to .mov versions go to MetaverseU.Blip.tv

Jerry Paffendorf

Jerry Paffendorf ties together what he learned at the Metaverse Roadmap event held on the previous day with his own experience in the metaverse.

Mike Liebhold

Mike Liebhold provides a glimpse into a near future changed profoundly by augmented reality.

Ginsu Yoon

Linden Lab's Ginsu Yoon cautioned not to jump to conclusions in our desire to understand the metaverse using world wide web analogies.

Tony Parisi

Tony Parisi takes his long view experience from the days of cocreating VRML up until his leading edge work today and provides an an overview over where metaverse technology could be headed.

Vladlen Koltun

Vladlen Koltun of the Stanford Virtual Worlds Group outlines a vision for how we may improve the content creation tools for the metaverse. As a specific example he demoes and explains Dryad, a tool for intuitively intuitively creating beautiful trees.

Jon Brouchoud 

Under the banner Wikitecture architect Jon Brouchoud outlines a fascinating vision for human collaboration in virtual spaces.  For more background on the talk go read: Dreaming of Wikitecture

TL Taylor

T. L. Taylor is Associate Professor and Head of Media Technology and Games Program at the IT University of Copenhagen. In this talk she discussed lessons learned about social interaction in virtual game spaces based on her extensive qualitative research.

Jeremy Bailenson

Jeremy Bailenson is the director of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and behind some very interesting reserach into digital human representation. His talk is a tour de force through many interesting insights the work has uncovered.

Kari Kraus

Kari Kraus talks about the challenges of preserving virtual worlds.

Dimitri Williams

Dmitri Williams shares results of his research on MMOs.

Beth Coleman

In her talk Beth Coleman investigates ubiquitous computing and augmented reality.

Parvati Dev & Wm. LeRoy Heinrichs

Parvati Dev & Wm. LeRoy Heinrichs shared some fascinating insights from their work that applied metaverse technologies to the field of medicine.