About:

Metaverse Labs (MVL)  is a leading think tank in the area of the Virtual Worlds. MVL strive to advance the state of the industry via research, development, and public work. Dr. Sivan, founder of MVL, is a pioneer and leader of technologies for knowledge infrastructures. His extensive professional experience in the development of innovative workplaces for corporate, hi-tech, government, military and defense environments (see for example: the 9-Keys for Knowledge Infrastructure). Dr. Sivan received his doctorate from Harvard University, and is a research affiliate in Harvard's Program on Information Resources Policy. http://www.pirp.harvard.edu. His alter person is Dera Kit. For BIO, Full CV and publication see http://www.dryesha.com. 

Current Projects:

• Metaverse1 EU project (currently 31 organizations).
• Metaverse Labs -- the Second Life island. See slurl, web.
• Real Virtual Worlds -- book project (in development). See this early draft in this book :
  "New Media and Innovative Technologies", Caspi, D. and Azran, T. (note: URL of actual paper is here but this may change). See Book in Hebrew.
  
• MVL Virtual Goods -- Where we learn about how to make, sell, and service goods.
• Contil -- Where we explore the evolving nature of art, museums, and virtual worlds.

Past Projects:

• Virtual Worlds Interoperability Project.  See web.
• Mobile Virtual World.  See this post. See Intro.
  

 Workshops:

• 2009 - Practical Virtual Worlds - 6 Hrs -- FULL VIDEO (download-able). (Hebrew) See here.
  
• 2008 - The 3D3C Virtual Worlds - 8 hrs -- FULL VIDEO in the Israeli Internet Conference. You need Microsoft Explorer for this. see here (HEBREW).
  
• 2007 - The 3D3C Tutorial - 4 hrs -- see for example in IEEE internal Conference on Software - Science, Technology, and Engineering (oct, 2007). see web and specific info.