Conferences and Trade Shows in Inhabited Virtual Worlds: A Case Study of Avatars98 & 99 -- HutchWorld: Lessons Learned A Collaborative Project: Fred Hutchsinson Cancer Research Center & Microsoft Research -- Organisation and Visualisation of Tacit Knowledge in Virtual Communities -- Integration of Simulation Tools in On-Line Virtual Worlds -- Towards Digital Creatures in Real-Time 3D Games -- A Framework to Dynamically Manage Distributed Virtual Environments -- Using GASP for Collaborative Interaction within 3D Virtual Worlds -- Generic 3D Ball Animation Model for Networked Interactive VR Environments -- An Overview on Virtual Sets -- Creating Emotive Responsive Characters Within Virtual Worlds -- Avatar Physics and Genetics -- Virtual Living Beings -- A Sound Propagation Model for Interagents Communication -- Communication and Interaction with Learning Agents in Virtual Soccer -- 3D Clothes Modeling from Photo Cloned Human Body -- Toward Alive Art -- In Search of Vital Presence - Evolving Virtual Musics -- Birth of a New World Order: IceBorg -- A 'Virtual Worlds' Theatre of Memory (Scheme for a Contemporary Museum) -- The World of Framsticks: Simulation, Evolution, Interaction -- A 3-D Biomechanical Model of the Salamander -- Virtual COTONS®, the Firstborn of the Next Generation of Simulation Model -- Basins of Attraction and the Density Classification Problem for Cellular Automata -- Text-to-Audiovisual Speech Synthesizer -- Virtual Environments for Visually Impaired -- VR American Football Simulator with Cylindrical Screen -- Augmented Reality Based Input Interface for Wearable Computers -- Multi Screen Environment with a Motion Base.