Stanford Announces Metaverse U Conference - Kotaku Comments

Stanford Announces Metaverse U Conference

Galvatron — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:40:12 MST

Neal Stephenson should be speaking at this conference..
and it shouldn't be held at Stanford.. it should be at The Black Sun..

Galvatron

Stanford Announces Metaverse U Conference

PsycheDiver — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:19:50 MST

Fascinating. If a book comes out of conferences like these, I'd buy it.

It reminds me of a great book I came across called "we the media".

PsycheDiver

Stanford Announces Metaverse U Conference

EmTeeZ — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:14:39 MST

I worked with some of those guys when I went there (not to mention, writing a thesis on virtual worlds). It should be a really interesting conference, although they usually get into a lot of non-video game stuff (i.e. MySpace instead of Second Life).

EmTeeZ

Stanford Announces Metaverse U Conference

Lono — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:51:20 MST

If I remember correctly, either Juanita, Da5id, or Hiro even went to Stanford. Let Neal in!

Lono

Stanford Announces Metaverse U Conference

endersadvocate — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:18:25 MST

Snow Crash!

endersadvocate

Stanford Announces Metaverse U Conference

Sparden — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:01:54 MST

Where is my Neal Stephenson? He kinda coined the term metaverse. I think it would've been nice to have him present.

Sparden

Stanford Announces Metaverse U Conference

BlackDove — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:21:02 MST

I know it makes me an illiterate moron, but every time I read Stanford, Metaverse and Conference I immediately fall asleep.

I guess I'm just not one of the great minds of our time.

BlackDove

Stanford Announces Metaverse U Conference

dowingba — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:19:56 MST

"Virtual Worlds" is like a new buzzword, and it seems awfully pretentious to me. Are all these intellectual types just talking about Second Life? As if it was something actually important? Because I can tell you that Second Life is pretty much a microcosm of the internet itself: give people freedom to do things and immediately get overrun by desperate corporations who don't know the first thing about it salivating to make a quick buck.

Remember the dot com bubble thing? Yeah, any day now Second Life is gonna cave in on itself as soon as it realizes it's nothing at all but companies selling things to each other and the occasional horny teenager looking for weird virtual S&M.

dowingba