This episode was produced in partnership with the IEEE Computer Society New Jersey Coast Section Chapter. On June 9, 2022, Facebook’s name officially changed to Meta, a change originally announced in October 2021, reportedly as a push toward establishing the metaverse – a view of the Internet as a universal, virtual world that promises not only to be expansive and immersive, but also interactive. Listen to the discussion, which focuses on the challenges and opportunities of immersive 3-D platforms.

Host:

• Katherine (Kit) Grace August, PhD – Research Guest at Stevens Institute of Technology

Guests:

• Joachim Jorge, PhD – IST, the School of Engineering of the University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Lisa Messeri, PhD – Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale University
• Andre Oboler, PhD LLM – CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute