IEEE Social Networks TC Invited Talk (Prof. Pan Hui)

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Dear All,

IEEE TCSN is pleased to invite you for the invited talk on "The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Metaverse" by Prof. Pan Hui on Nov. 29th 2022
from 10:00 AM Hong Kong Time (Nov. 28th 9pm EST).

This talk is an endeavor of IEEE TCSN focusing on enhancing the
awareness of trending topics to the community.



Title: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Metaverse

Speaker: Prof. Pan Hui

>Date: 29 November 2022 (Tuesday)

Time: 10:00 AM HKT (UTC+08:00)

(Check your local time here: https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/)



Zoom link:

https://rebrand.ly/HitchhikerGuideToMetaverse



Abstract:

We envision in the future the virtual world will mix and co-exist with
the physical world in such an immersive way that we cannot tell what is
real and what is virtual. We will live and interact with the virtual
objects that are blended into our environments with advanced holographic
technology or with high-quality head-mounted displays and lose the
virtuality boundary. We call such a new reality Surreality. Our vision
of “metaverse” is a multi-world. There are multiple virtual worlds
developed by different technology companies and there is also the
Surreality where real and virtual merged. While the metaverse may seem
futuristic, catalysed by emerging technologies such as Extended Reality,
5G, and Artificial Intelligence, the digital “big bang” of our
cyberspace is not far away. This talk aims to offer a comprehensive
framework that examines the latest metaverse development under the
dimensions of state-of-the-art technologies and metaverse ecosystems,
illustrates the possibility of the digital “big bang”, and proposes a
concrete research agenda for the development of the metaverse.



Speaker Bio:

Pan Hui is a Chair Professor of Computational Media and Arts and
Director of the Center for Metaverse and Computational Creativity at the
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), and a Chair
Professor of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas at the Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology. He is also the Nokia Chair in Data
Science at the University of Helsinki. He received his PhD from the
Computer Laboratory at University of Cambridge, and both his Bachelor
and MPhil degrees from the University of Hong Kong. He was an adjunct
Professor of social computing and networking at Aalto University,
Finland, and a Distinguished Scientist at the Deutsche Telekom
Laboratories (T-labs), Germany. His industrial profile also includes his
research at Intel Research Cambridge, UK and Thomson Research Paris,
France. Pan Hui is an expert in Augmented Reality and Mobile Computing,
with more than 400 research papers, 30 patents, and over 24,000
citations. He is an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of
Engineering, a member of Academia Europaea, an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM
Distinguished Scientist.

We look forward to your participation.

[vincentth...@gmail.com]

Dear All,

IEEE TCSN is pleased to invite you for the invited talk on "The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Metaverse" by Prof. Pan Hui on Nov. 29th 2022
from 10:00 AM Hong Kong Time (Nov. 28th 9pm EST).

This talk is an endeavor of IEEE TCSN focusing on enhancing the
awareness of trending topics to the community.



Title: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Metaverse

Speaker: Prof. Pan Hui (IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist,
International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Academia
Europaea member)