<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:1gw" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:19h" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px" tabindex="1" aria-controls=":218" aria-expanded="false"><div id="gmail-:1r2" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:1q1" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px" tabindex="1" aria-controls=":1z3" aria-expanded="false"><div id="gmail-:1bh" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:1ae" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px" tabindex="1" aria-controls=":1xp" aria-expanded="false"><div id="gmail-:1kb" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:1p3" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px" tabindex="1" aria-controls=":1wj" aria-expanded="false"><div id="gmail-:14q" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:19g" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px" tabindex="1" aria-controls=":1vd" aria-expanded="false"><div id="gmail-:1kp" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:1kt" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px" tabindex="1" aria-controls=":1u7" aria-expanded="false"><div id="gmail-:151" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:155" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px" tabindex="1" aria-controls=":1t1" aria-expanded="false"><div id="gmail-:1ow" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:1os" class="gmail-Am gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:376px" tabindex="1" aria-controls=":1re" aria-expanded="false"><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">*** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for participation***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US">******************************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (IEEE MetaCom 2023), June 26-28, 2023, Kyoto, Japan</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US">******************************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IEEE MetaCom 2023 provides a forum for academic researchers and industry practitioners to present research progresses, exchange new ideas, and identify future directions in the field of Computing, Networking, and Applications for Metaverse.  </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Scope and Objectives: </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Metaverse is one of the key enablers for the future society, which is envisioned to bring a new revolution to digital world. For Metaverse, physical world will be seamlessly integrated with cyber world through digitizing physical objects to create digital twins, which poses numerous challenges on human-machine interfaces, ultra-low latency, extremely high resource demands, low traffic, reliability and trustworthiness. To realize this vision, it becomes indispensable for the convergence of computing, networking and applications for Metaverse in a wide range of domains including industry, finance, medical care, smart cities, entertainment, education, and agriculture. </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IEEE MetaCom 2023 main conference consists of the following six tracks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 1: Metaverse Architectures and Applications</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 2: Networking and Communications</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 3: Metaverse Computing </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 4: Blockchain and Web 3.0</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 5: Security, Privacy, and Trust</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Track 6: Theories, Experiments and Evaluations</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the IEEE MetaCom 2023.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">The registration and program information is provided as follows.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Register at</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/registration.php">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/registration.php</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"> <span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The exciting program of MetaCom 2023 has arranged with<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>2 keynote speeches, 1 panel, 3 tutorials, 21 sessions, 5 workshops, and 1 poster session</b>. The technical program covers a wide range of topics of metaverse.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The program of IEEE MetaCom 2023 is provided as follows.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://metacom.cc/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://metacom.cc/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://metacom.cc/metacom23-program-at-a-glance.pdf" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://metacom.cc/metacom23-program-at-a-glance.pdf</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The information for the keynotes and tutorials of MetaCom 2023 is provided as follows.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Keynotes:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Keynote 1:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Metaverse is Taking Off?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Speaker:<b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Prof. Nirwan Ansari</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> (New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/keynote_1.php" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/keynote_1.php</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Keynote 2:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Challenges in Developing Beyond 5G Network Systems<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Speaker:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Dr. Hiroaki Harai</b> (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/keynote_2.php" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/keynote_2.php</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Panel:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Title:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">The Metaverse is Dead, Long Live the Metaverse: Distinguishing Opportunities from Hype<b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Panel Chair</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">: </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tarek Abdelzaher</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"MS PGothic",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Panel Members:</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">        </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tarek Abdelzaher</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">        </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Klara Nahrstedt</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">        </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mani Srivastava</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, University of California, Los Angeles USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">        </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jiannong Cao</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">        </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Max (Chong) Li,</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Computecoin Network and Columbia University, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/panel.php" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/panel.php</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Tutorials:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Tutorial 1:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">An Introduction to Blockchain as a Database and WEB3.0</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Instructor:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Prof. Abdullah Uz Tansel</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(City University of New York, USA)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Tutorial 2:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">The Network Infrastructure of the Metaverse: Challenges, Potential Solutions, and Research Directions</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Instructor:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Prof. Roch H. Glitho<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>(Concordia University, Canada)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Tutorial 3:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Point cloud video streaming: viewport prediction, semantic tiling and transmission optimization</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">Instructor:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Prof. Zhi Liu</b><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/tutorials.php" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/2023/tutorials.php</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background:repeat rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(42,42,42)">Looking forward to seeing you at the MetaCom 2023!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background:repeat rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background:repeat rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(42,42,42)">IEEE MetaCom 2023 Organizing Committee</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background:repeat rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(42,42,42)">TPC Chairs:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background:repeat rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University, Japan<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background:repeat rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background:repeat rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Max (Chong) Li, Computecoin Network and Columbia University, USA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background:repeat rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background:repeat rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">General Chairs:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background:repeat rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chonggang Wang, Interdigital, USA<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background:repeat rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background:repeat rgb(250,252,252);vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>