artificial limps? ;-) On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Tzafnat Shpak < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > Trouble viewing this email? Click here > <http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=7df65cbb60&e=3f7039199b> > to view it online. > [image: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research] > <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=fea01686d1&e=3f7039199b> > > > > CfP: Futures of Real and Virtual Worlds > A Special exploratory Issue > Edited by: Yesha Sivan, Editor in Chief, the Journal of Virtual Worlds > Research > > The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://www.jvwresearch.org/) is > an online, open access peer-reviewed academic journal that engages a wide > spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the many > disciplines and approaches that intersect with virtual worlds’ research. > > Design the future > This call is about the future, or more so, possible futures. We are > looking for *reflective papers (1000-3000 words) *that will describe > specific angles to the real and virtual worlds. We are exploring and > defining our future. The collection of reflective futures will help us > design the next 7 years of the journal. > > Topics include but are not limited to: > > - 3D fun > - Mini robots > - Social networks that change our mind > - Artificial limps > - New forms of hardware > - Augmented and mixed environments > - Wearables > - User generated content > - 3D printing > - Visual data streaming > - Immersive technologies > - Shopping from home > - Projections of the real > - Wireless people > - Portable friends > - The Internet of Things > - Virtual currencies > - E-readers > - … > - And more… > > Motivation > The journal, JVWR, is celebrating its 8th year anniversary in 2015. In > 2015 we will also publish the book “*3D3C Platforms: Applications and > Tools for Three Dimensional Platforms for Community, Creation and Commerce*” > published by Springer, as a summary of this field’s state of the art. > > In 2008, when Jeremiah Spence founded* #JVWR*, the excitement of a > flexible, user-generated world was very high. It seemed that the world of > *Second > Life(R)* had taken years of hardware, software, and social-ware > experiences into a new level. That it would change” the world. This was yet > another wave of promise of virtual reality. > > In 2008, users, business analysts and academics alike used to be at awe > because Second Life had millions of users; commerce was done virtually; > there were grievers in virtual worlds, and people could create 3D objects > by themselves. > > In 2015 today, 7 years later, Facebook has more than 1.35 billion monthly > active users; commerce is done with a fingerprint via Apple pay; cyber > criminals are attacking real companies, and people are printing their own > outfits and objects. Much has changed. *The virtual is becoming the real > and the real is becoming the virtual*. It seems that the term “virtual > worlds” as a key term for an academic domain, does not make sense anymore. > It is time for us, as an academic journal, to take an “academic > sabbatical” to define the future of our Journal in light the possible > futures of both worlds (real and virtual. Of course, this will be an active > Sabbatical where we try to grapple with several questions that revolve > around the nature of the field, and on how we best advance it as an > academic journal. > > Submission Instructions > Authors are invited to *submit original scholarly papers of 1000-3000 > words* including footnotes, references, and appendices. Interested > authors should submit a *full paper* by the deadline indicated below. All > submissions should be made via the JVWR publishing system (see > www.jvwreserach.org > > About JVWR > For Authors > <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=c2af40e211&e=3f7039199b>). > All submissions will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published > online in the Volume 8, Number 2 (2015) of the Journal. > > Deadlines and Timeline > Authors submit full paper: *May 30, 2015* > Editors return review report and initial decision: *Jun 15, 2015* > Authors submit revised paper: *July 15, 2015* > Editors return final comments and decision: *July 31, 2015* > Authors submit final version: *August 15, 2015* > Planned Publication: *August 31, 2015* > > Further Information > Please contact: > Yesha Sivan yesha.sivan AT jvwresearch DOT org > Tzafnat Shpak tzafnat.shpak AT jvwresearch DOT org > > And of course, you are always welcome to: > > - Call details on *our website > > <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=fb71849af7&e=3f7039199b>.* > - Write to us directly to* [email protected]. > <[email protected]>* > - Visit us on our Facebook > > <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=15dd124046&e=3f7039199b> > page (TheJVWR). > - Follow us on *twitter > > <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=287357554a&e=3f7039199b>* > @TheJVWR. > > > Prof. Yesha Sivan > Editor in Chief > > Tzafnat Shpak > Coordinating Editor > > The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research > http:www.jvwresearch.org > <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=6bca4e0e1c&e=3f7039199b> > > <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=7067bef063&e=3f7039199b> > > > > > > © 2015 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research All rights reserved. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://opensimulator.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > >
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