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TransVision06 in Second Life report
The TransVision 2006 annual conference of the World Transhumanist Association, Helsinki 17-19 August 2006, organized by the WTA and the Finnish Transhumanist Association, was open to remote visitors in the virtual reality world of Second Life. This year the theme of the conference was Emerging Technologies of Human Enhancement. We looked at recent and ongoing technological developments and discussing associated ethical and philosophical questions. We held a mixed reality event between the Helsinki conference hall and Second Life.
The event was successful, with more than 40 participants in Second Life able to watch the real time video stream from Helsinki, ask questions to the speakers via the IRC to Second Life chat gateway and discuss the presentations. On the one hand, the virtual TransVision 2006 conference gave the possibility to "attend" the conference in virtual reality to many people who were not able to attend the conference in brickspace and, on the other hand, it demonstrated the potential of virtual reality and Second Life for major conferences and events. The lessons learned will be used to design other, even more ambitious, mixed-reality and VR-only events.
Please see the full report with pictures at:
http://uvvy.com/index.php/TransVision06_in_SL_Report
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