Usually, scientific conferences that gather students and researchers in academic affairs, inside halls and huge stands or in covered halls and other places that accommodate a large number of people, but at a time when social distancing has become imposed on everyone without exception, and the impact of the Corona or Covid pandemic - 19 in all aspects of life in general, especially in the movement of people and their travel, in addition to the difficulty of meeting them in a closed place.
But apart from digital remote communication methods and social media, are there other methods that may help simulate scientific conferences?
Yes, it happened to you, for the first time, to an official event of this level, as a scientific conference was held in Beijing, China, in which more than 300 researchers gathered at the international conference on artificial intelligence, which is usually held in Beijing. This conference was held within the Chinese video game "Justice Online" It was developed by NetEase, a diversified Chinese Internet services company, during the 24th and 27th of October.
At the entrance to this hall, he called it “the palace” with tall wooden doors and surrounded by bamboo trees. Three armored warriors, wearing elegant conical hats, guard the front entrance to the hall, which has Chinese-style carpets up to the front hall, not to mention the rows of plush chairs on stage, surrounded by coils of ancient stripes and ornamental dragons.
Participants in the conference can listen to the talks within the conference, while posters of some researchers were displayed in places designated for them for others to see. If you are a participant, you can also ask questions through the chat boxes designated for that.
Can these games also have a role in social events?
This is not the first time that the virtual world is used in order to communicate digitally between many people for a social purpose in one virtual place far from the main goal, which is to play, it happened with the game Minecraft where graduates of a university gathered inside the game, for the sake of Students hold a graduation ceremony, and the inability to hold it on the ground due to closures and quarantines,
Jana and Stephan are citizens of the United States of America, and the total closure caused the cancellation of the date of their wedding, but they found an interactive way to do so, so they held their wedding ceremony inside the Animal Crossing game, due to their inability as well for the reasons mentioned previously.
Also, do not forget the concerts of the most famous singers that are held inside the game of Fortnite, which witnessed a great turnout and may exceed the number of attendees if the concert was live.
In the end, these remain just attempts to recreate and embody elements of social interaction from real life, such as rituals, emotional events, etc., and try to transfer them to a virtual world that many people may find difficult to adapt to, especially the inability to transmit real or gesture feelings and feelings through these means.
Do you think that this global crisis may change the concept of virtual role-playing games, and have a greater social significance and role in the near future?
