Video capture from the third day, 11 May 2008, of "Convergence of the Real and the Virtual," The First Scientific Conference in World of Warcraft.
"This is a scientific conference to be held May 9-11, 2008, inside World of Warcraft, devoted to research on WoW and on virtual worlds in general. It was proposed by John Bohannon, who creates the Gonzo Scientist feature for the AAAS journal Science. The organizer is William Sims Bainbridge, a social and information scientist, whose conference e-mail address is wsbainbridge@gmail.com." -- from the conference WIKI, http://convergentsystems.pbwiki.com/
These video captures show the conference group on the third day, during the conference session. This session was devoted to an open discussion of issues related to research in virtual worlds. The video was captured from a live p2p streaming broadcast using "Instant Sharing" TM technology provided by Dyyno . Note: This set of videos captures the session in its entirety; each filename indicates the starting time for the corresponding video. For example, WoW_2008-05-11_09-58-04-64_mpeg4.mp4 is a stream that began at 9:58am.
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