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

[Jui-Yi Tsai]

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)*

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*Zoom link: *

*https://rebrand.ly/HitchhikerGuideToMetaverse
<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.

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