探索虚拟世界作为科学研究平台的应用：计算天体物理元研究所（MICA）
Exploring the Use of Virtual Worlds as a Scientific Research Platform: The Meta-Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA)
摘要：
我们描述的元计算天体物理研究所（MICA），第一个专业的科学组织完全基于虚拟世界（VWs）。MICA的目标是探索新兴的VR和VWs技术在科学和学术工作中的效用，并促进和加速科学研究界的采用。MICA本身就是一个由沉浸式VR技术实现的学术和科学实践的实验。我们描述了MICA当前和计划中的活动和研究方向，并提供了一些想法，在这一领域的未来发展可能是什么。
英文摘要：
We describe the Meta-Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA), the first professional scientific organization based exclusively in virtual worlds (VWs). The goals of MICA are to explore the utility of the emerging VR and VWs technologies for scientific and scholarly work in general, and to facilitate and accelerate their adoption by the scientific research community. MICA itself is an experiment in academic and scientific practices enabled by the immersive VR technologies. We describe the current and planned activities and research directions of MICA, and offer some thoughts as to what the future developments in this arena may be.
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