Futures: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research issue 8, 2

For your theory itch: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research issue 8, 2.

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.”

From the point of view of 2015: the virtual is becoming the real and the real is becoming the virtual.
Table of Contents
Editor In-Chief Corner



Toward the Futures of Real AND Virtual Worlds
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Yesha Y. Sivan





Essays



Three Real Futures for Virtual Worlds
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Tom Boellstorff







Is a Technological Singularity Near Also for Bots in MMOGs?
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Stefano De Paoli







Conceptualizing Factors of Adoption for Head Mounted Displays: Toward an Integrated Multi-Perspective Framework
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Ibrahim Halil Yucel, Robert Anthony Edgell







Being There: Implications of Neuroscience and Meditation for Self-Presence in Virtual Worlds
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Carrie Heeter, Marcel Allbritton







The eSports Trojan Horse: Twitch and Streaming Futures
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Benjamin Burroughs, Paul Rama







The Metaverse as Mediator between Technology, Trends, and the Digital Transformation of Society and Business
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Sven-Volker Rehm, Lakshmi Goel, Mattia Crespi