JVWR: Virtual Worlds MPEG-V and Other Standards: New Issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research

We are happy to announce the publication of:
Volume 4, Number 3: MPEG-V and Other Standards

The editorial team for this issue includes:

This issue focuses on standards for virtual worlds, with special relation to MPEG-V, the ISO standard for connecting within virtual worlds as well as to real worlds.

• Managing Editor’s Corner: Celebrating Four Years and Planning for the Next
  Yesha Y. Sivan
• Issue Editors’ Corner: The Current and Future Angles of Standards
  Jean H.A. Gelissen, Marius Preda, Samuel Cruz-Lara, Yesha Y. Sivan
• The Metaverse1 Case: Historical Review of Making One Virtual Worlds Standard (MPEG-V)
  Jean H.A. Gelissen, Yesha Y. Sivan
• Standards in Virtual Worlds Virtual Travel Use Case Metaverse1 Project
  José Manuel Cabello, José María Franco, Antonio Collado, Jordi Janer, Samuel Cruz-Lara, David Oyarzun, Albert Armisen, Roland Geraerts
• Teleportation of Objects between Virtual Worlds: Use Case: Exer-gaming
  Marco Otte, Loren Roosendaal, Johan F. Hoorn
• Assistive Technology Interoperability between Virtual and Real Worlds
  Alice Krueger, Margaret Grace Stineman
• Associating Automatic Natural Language Processing to Serious Games and Virtual Worlds
  Treveur Bretaudière, Samuel Cruz-Lara, Lina María Rojas Barahona
• Improving Reusability of Assets for Virtual Worlds while Preserving 3D Formats Features
  Rozenn Bouville Berthelot, Thierry Duval, Jérôme Royan, Bruno Arnaldi
• Virtual Hybrid Communications – A Telecom Infrastructure for the Metaverse
  Vincent Verdot, Adel Saidi
• Modeling the Metaverse: A Theoretical Model of Effective Team Collaboration in 3D Virtual Environments
  Sarah van der Land, Alexander P. Schouten, Bart van den Hooff, Frans Feldberg

Let me conclude with few editorial notes.

• We were joined by Tzafnat Shpak as the Coordinating Editor (she is on the Reply line)
• We have started to fine-tune our reviewers’ list.
• We have an initial journal plan for the next two years with firm editors to 50% of the issues.
• We have started to review our publishing policy for 2012.
• Join us in our Facebook page: look for Journal of Virtual Worlds Research

Coordinating Editor
Journal of Virtual Worlds Research

Dr.Yesha Y. Sivan

Managing Editor

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research