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We are happy to announce the publication of a NEW ISSUE from the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR):<br>
<h1 style="display:block;margin:0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:26px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left">Volume 8, Number 2:</h1>
<h1 style="display:block;margin:0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:26px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left"><span style="color:#ff6633">Futures</span></h1>
<div style="text-align:justify"><strong>Issue Editor</strong>: Yesha Sivan, Coller Institute of Venture, Tel Aviv University, Israel; School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK.<br>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span>This issue presents six papers, each reflecting on one angle to the future of virtual worlds: Four concrete views relating to bots, head mounted displays (HMD), neuroscience and meditation, and eSports; as well as two theoretical views relating to the focus of virtual worlds research and looking at virtual worlds as a mediator between “technology trends” and the “digital transformation of society and business.”</span><br>
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<div style="text-align:justify"><span>From 2015 point of view: <strong>The virtual is becoming the real and the real is becoming the virtual</strong>.</span></div>
<h3 style="display:block;margin:0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left">Editor in-Chief Corner</h3>
<p style="font-size:12px;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><a href="http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=6ca8945e65&e=790f62627f" title="Toward the Futures of Real AND Virtual Worlds" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Toward the Futures of Real AND Virtual Worlds</a><br>
Yesha Y. Sivan</p>
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<h3 style="display:block;margin:0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;line-height:125%;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left">Essays</h3>
<p style="font-size:12px;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><a href="http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=a45c098ac4&e=790f62627f" title="Three Real Futures for Virtual Worlds" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Three Real Futures for Virtual Worlds</a><br>
Tom Boellstorff</p>
<p style="font-size:12px;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><a href="http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=fd4ea10dca&e=790f62627f" title="Is a Technological Singularity Near Also for Bots in MMOGs?" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Is a Technological Singularity Near Also for Bots in MMOGs?</a><br>
Stefano De Paoli</p>
<p style="font-size:12px;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><a href="http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=52bcba41da&e=790f62627f" title="Conceptualizing Factors of Adoption for Head Mounted Displays" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Conceptualizing Factors of Adoption for Head Mounted Displays: Toward an Integrated Multi-Perspective Framework</a><br>
Ibrahim Halil Yucel, Robert Anthony Edgell</p>
<p style="font-size:12px;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><a href="http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=1936d2b2d2&e=790f62627f" title="Being There: Implications of Neuroscience and Meditation for Self-Presence in Virtual Worlds" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Being There: Implications of Neuroscience and Meditation for Self-Presence in Virtual Worlds</a><br>
Carrie Heeter, Marcel Allbritton</p>
<p style="font-size:12px;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><a href="http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=3b2ba83736&e=790f62627f" title="The eSports Trojan Horse: Twitch and Streaming Futures" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">The eSports Trojan Horse: Twitch and Streaming Futures</a><br>
Benjamin Burroughs, Paul Rama</p>
<p style="font-size:12px;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><a href="http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=9fd198bb66&e=790f62627f" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">T</a><a href="http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=b3ab488a9e&e=790f62627f" title="he Metaverse as Mediator between Technology, Trends, and the Digital Transformation of Society and Business" style="color:#2baadf;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">he Metaverse as Mediator between Technology, Trends, and the Digital Transformation of Society and Business</a><br>
Sven-Volker Rehm, Lakshmi Goel, Mattia Crespi</p>
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