Metaverse Labs (MVL)  is a leading think tank in the area of the Metavsere. MVL strive to advance the state of the Metaverse 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; he is also the head of the Internet, Metaverse and Society center at Afeka College, teach at Tel Aviv University School of Computer Science. His alter person is Dera Kit, and his blog is http://www.dryesha.com.

 

Projects:

  • Metaverse1 EU project (in development; currently 47 companies). See a short review.
  • Metaverse Labs -- the Second Life island. See slurl, web.
  • The 3D3C metaverse -- 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).
  • Lindman Design -- virtual goods strategy. see slurl.
  • Virtual Worlds Interoperability Project.  See web.
Learning:
  •  Yesha's blog: http://www.dryesha.com.
  • Tel Aviv University Motion in the metaverse course. See web.
  • Afeka College of engineering Intro to the Metaverse. See web.
  • Bar -Ilan Executive MBA course on the Virtual Worlds. See web.
  • The 3D3C Metaverse Tutorial - 4 hrs -- see for example in IEEE internal Conference on Software - Science, Technology, and Engineering (oct, 2007). see web and specific info.