These slides were used in a keynote at the Virtual Worlds 2008 conference in April, 2008 in New York. The theme of the talk is a quick overview on the subject on where virtual world technology stands today relative to the needs of applications we frequently imagine for the Metaverse. More detailed content can be found at the related blog: http://blogs.electricsheepcompany.com/sibley/

1. Where are we?
a path from where we’ve just been to the metaverse

2. Robots on the Job
Where are we?
a path from where we’ve just been to the metaverse

3. We think we know what the metaverse looks like.