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The "Darkverse" could be the negative harmful area of the Metaverse; a new virtual immersive environment for the facilitation of illicit activity such as misinformation, fraud, harassment, and illegal marketplaces. This paper explores the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Raymond Chan , Benjamin W. J. Kwok , Adriel Yeo , Kan Chen , Jeannie S. Lee

In recent years, the maturation of emerging technologies such as Virtual Reality, Digital twins, and Blockchain has accelerated the realization of the metaverse. As a virtual world independent of the real world, the metaverse will provide…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xiaolong Xu , Xuanhong Zhou , Muhammad Bilal , Sherali Zeadally , Jon Crowcroft , Lianyong Qi , Shengjun Xue

The Metaverse is driving the next wave of innovation for new opportunities by replacing the digital world (Internet) with the virtual world through a single, shared, immersive, persistent 3D virtual space. In this paper, we present…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Danda B Rawat , Hassan El alami

Over the past half-century, technology has evolved beyond our wildest dreams. However, while the benefits of technological growth are undeniable, the nascent Internet did not anticipate the online threats we routinely encounter and the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Meredydd Williams , Louise Axon , Jason R. C. Nurse , Sadie Creese

The metaverse has gained significant attention from various industries due to its potential to create a fully immersive and interactive virtual world. However, the integration of deepfakes in the metaverse brings serious security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Shahroz Tariq , Alsharif Abuadbba , Kristen Moore

The Metaverse depicts a parallel digitalized world where virtuality and reality are fused. It has economic and social systems like those in the real world and provides intelligent services and applications. In this paper, we introduce the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Feifei Shi , Huansheng Ning , Xiaohong Zhang , Rongyang Li , Qiaohui Tian , Shiming Zhang , Yuanyuan Zheng , Yudong Guo , Mahmoud Daneshmand

We are living in the era of big data. The Metaverse is an emerging technology in the future, and it has a combination of big data, AI (artificial intelligence), VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality), MR (mixed reality), and other…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Jiayi Sun , Wensheng Gan , Zefeng Chen , Junhui Li , Philip S. Yu

In this article, the authors provide a comprehensive overview on three core pillars of metaverse-as-a-service (MaaS) platforms; privacy and security, edge computing, and blockchain technology. The article starts by investigating security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Vesal Ahsani , Ali Rahimi , Mehdi Letafati , Babak Hossein Khalaj

Metaverse is expected to emerge as a new paradigm for the next-generation Internet, providing fully immersive and personalised experiences to socialize, work, and play in self-sustaining and hyper-spatio-temporal virtual world(s). The…

The concept of the Metaverse aims to bring a fully-fledged extended reality environment to provide next generation applications and services. Development of the Metaverse is backed by many technologies, including, 5G, artificial…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Bartlomiej Siniarski , Chamitha De Alwis , Gokul Yenduri , Thien Huynh-The , GÜrkan GÜr , Thippa Reddy Gadekallu , Madhusanka Liyanage

Along with the massive growth of the Internet from the 1990s until now, various innovative technologies have been created to bring users breathtaking experiences with more virtual interactions in cyberspace. Many virtual environments with…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Thien Huynh-The , Quoc-Viet Pham , Xuan-Qui Pham , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Zhu Han , Dong-Seong Kim

To investigate the level of support and awareness developers possess for dealing with sensitive data in the metaverse, we surveyed developers, consulted legal frameworks, and analyzed API documentation in the metaverse. Our preliminary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Argianto Rahartomo , Leonel Merino , Mohammad Ghafari , Yoshiki Ohshima

The future of Internet of Things (IoT) is already upon us. IoT applications have been widely used in many field of social production and social living such as healthcare, energy and industrial automation. While enjoying the convenience and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Wei Zhou , Yuqing Zhang , Peng Liu

Cloud computing is revolutionizing many ecosystems by providing organizations with computing resources featuring easy deployment, connectivity, configuration, automation and scalability. This paradigm shift raises a broad range of security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Ali Gholami , Erwin Laure

The modern Mixed Reality devices that make the Metaverse viable require vast information about the physical world and can also violate the privacy of unsuspecting or unwilling bystanders in their vicinity. In this article, we provide an…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Matthew Corbett , Brendan David-John , Jiacheng Shang , Y. Charlie Hu , Bo Ji

The adoption of virtual reality (VR) technologies has rapidly gained momentum in recent years as companies around the world begin to position the so-called "metaverse" as the next major medium for accessing and interacting with the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Gonzalo Munilla Garrido , Vivek Nair , Dawn Song

Metaverse in general holds a potential future for cyberspace. At the beginning of Web 2.0, it was witnessed that people were signing in with various pseudonyms or 'nyms', risking their online identities by increasing presence of fake…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Sibi Chakkaravarthy Sethuraman , Aditya Mitra , Anisha Ghosh , Gautam Galada , Anitha Subramanian

In recent years, the metaverse has attracted enormous attention from around the world with the development of related technologies. The expected metaverse should be a realistic society with more direct and physical interactions, while the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Haihan Duan , Jiaye Li , Sizheng Fan , Zhonghao Lin , Xiao Wu , Wei Cai

Virtual reality (VR) is a multibillionaire market that keeps growing, year after year. As VR is becoming prevalent in households and small businesses, it is critical to address the effects that this technology might have on the privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Alberto Giaretta

The metaverse is said to be the future Internet and will consist of several worlds called verses. This concept is being discussed a lot lately, however, the security issues of these virtual worlds are not discussed enough. This study first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Pınar Kürtünlüoğlu , Beste Akdik , Enis Karaarslan