<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=c2ca1cbb97&e=790f62627f> View this email in your browser <http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=9dfd81deef&e=790f62627f> We are happy to announce the publication of a NEW ISSUE from the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR): Volume 8, Number 2: Futures *Issue Editor*: Yesha Sivan, Coller Institute of Venture, Tel Aviv University, Israel; School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK. 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 2015 point of view: *The virtual is becoming the real and the real is becoming the virtual*. Editor in-Chief Corner Toward the Futures of Real AND Virtual Worlds <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=6ca8945e65&e=790f62627f> Yesha Y. Sivan Essays Three Real Futures for Virtual Worlds <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=a45c098ac4&e=790f62627f> Tom Boellstorff Is a Technological Singularity Near Also for Bots in MMOGs? <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=fd4ea10dca&e=790f62627f> Stefano De Paoli Conceptualizing Factors of Adoption for Head Mounted Displays: Toward an Integrated Multi-Perspective Framework <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=52bcba41da&e=790f62627f> Ibrahim Halil Yucel, Robert Anthony Edgell Being There: Implications of Neuroscience and Meditation for Self-Presence in Virtual Worlds <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=1936d2b2d2&e=790f62627f> Carrie Heeter, Marcel Allbritton The eSports Trojan Horse: Twitch and Streaming Futures <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=3b2ba83736&e=790f62627f> Benjamin Burroughs, Paul Rama T <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=9fd198bb66&e=790f62627f>he Metaverse as Mediator between Technology, Trends, and the Digital Transformation of Society and Business <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=b3ab488a9e&e=790f62627f> Sven-Volker Rehm, Lakshmi Goel, Mattia Crespi ------------------------------ More from JVWR - You are invited to browse JVWR's previous issues <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=58dc4ce0a3&e=790f62627f> . - Subscribe <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=af41617a1d&e=790f62627f> to our mailing list (on the top left of http://www.jvwresearch.org <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=c325ef5d12&e=790f62627f>) to receive JVWR news and updates (no spam guaranteed.) - Looking forward to hearing from you on twitter <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=4d34b51383&e=790f62627f>@TheJVWR and on our Facebook <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=7c87f099cb&e=790f62627f> page (TheJVWR) Thankfully, *Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan* Editor In-Chief *TheJVWR - The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research* http://jvwresearch.org <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=6708466100&e=790f62627f> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=ed869bf34f&e=790f62627f> Futures Vol. 8, No. 2 <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=e84e449ce6&e=790f62627f> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=9c4436a50c&e=790f62627f> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=45dfe3bc17&e=790f62627f> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb708&id=cd919c5afd&e=790f62627f> *Copyright © 2015 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, All rights reserved.*