Keynote: Wagner James Au - Mythic Origins of Metaverse Myths
VWBPE 2024 Keynote
Presented: March 14, 2025
SL: Hamlet Au
Wagner James Au (“Hamlet Au” in SL) is the author of Making a Metaverse That Matters (2023), based on his 20 years working in virtual worlds — a story he first started telling in The Making of Second Life (HarperCollins, 2008), based on his experiences as the first journalist officially embedded in a metaverse platform. His writing about virtual worlds has been featured in The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among many other publications, and has spoken on the topic at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Princeton, among many other universities.
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Making a Metaverse That Matters on Amazon
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