Global multi-user virtual environments (panel)

Abstract

The objective of this panel is to discuss the long term development of future large-scale social electronic spaces. In this time and age, this means networked computer systems that exploit the idea of a place inhabited by users who communicate with one another using the natural and informal means appropriate to a range of social situations (e.g. work, family, leisure, etc.). Ideally, such systems should support many thousands of users engaged in real time interaction with one another.