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By Paul Philleo

The Metaverse U event at the Stanford University campus won't be remembered for hot dancing models on stage or someone tripping and falling, but you just might see a few familiar faces in the crowd here and a snapshot (literally) of some interesting ideas in motion. Enjoy our cozy gallery of ten shots from the event.

While it doesn't show here, they organized managed to fill almost every seat in the house

Fielding a question from the peanut gallery

Yes, they let us out for fresh air once in a while

Gathering 'round the make-believe campfire to talk about virtuals worlds over beer, wine and Indian food

Rapk Koster, Metaplce, listens attentively to the conjecture of his fellow conversants

Mark Terrano, Hidden Path Entertainment, engaging virtual world archiving activists on stage.

User-created content, namely a tree, created by the Dryad program

Just after the screening of "Molotov Alva and his Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey" documentary

Lunchtime with the little red Stanford lunchboxes -- even offering Korean beef sandwhiches!

Seeing Machines motion capture technology in action -- bringing digital mime and clown art to faces near you!