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Despite staggering growth over the past couple of decades, the concept of the metaverse is still in its early stages. Eventually, it is expected to become a common medium connecting every individual. Considering the complexity of this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Anirudh Dash

The Urban Metaverse describes an immersive 3D environment that connects the physical world of the city and its citizens with its digital data and systems. Physical and digital realities merge, opening up new possibilities for the design and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Christina Dienhart , Luis Kaufhold , Frank Piller

Metaverse, as an evolving paradigm of the next-generation Internet, aims to build a fully immersive, hyper spatiotemporal, and self-sustaining virtual shared space for humans to play, work, and socialize. Driven by recent advances in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su , Ning Zhang , Rui Xing , Dongxiao Liu , Tom H. Luan , Xuemin Shen

The Metaverse comprises technologies to enable virtual twins of the real world, via mixed reality, internet of things, and others. As it matures unique challenges arise such as a lack of strong connections between virtual and physical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Jie Guan , Alexis Morris , Jay Irizawa

Metaverse is a perpetual and persistent multi-user environment that merges physical reality with digital virtuality. It is widely considered to be the next revolution of the Internet. Digital humans are a critical part of Metaverse. They…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Tianyi Huang , Stan Z. Li , Xin Yuan , Shenghui Cheng

Technological advances are redefining the relationship between physical and virtual spaces. Traditionally, when users engage in virtual reality, they are completely cutoff from the physical space. Similarly, they are unable to access…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yuichi Hiroi , Yuji Hatada , Takefumi Hiraki

Internet technology has proven to be a vital contributor to many cutting-edge innovations that have given humans access to interact virtually with objects. Until now, numerous virtual systems had been developed for digital transformation to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Muhammad Adil , Houbing Song , Muhammad Khurram Khan , Ahmed Farouk , Zhanpeng Jin

eXtended reality (XR) technologies such as virtual reality and 360{\deg} stereoscopic streaming enable the concept of the Metaverse, an immersive virtual space for collaboration and interaction. To ensure high fidelity display of immersive…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Haiwei Dong , Jeannie S. A. Lee

The Metaverse offers a second world beyond reality, where boundaries are non-existent, and possibilities are endless through engagement and immersive experiences using the virtual reality (VR) technology. Many disciplines can benefit from…

Metaverse as the latest buzzword has attracted great attention from both industry and academia. Metaverse seamlessly integrates the real world with the virtual world and allows avatars to carry out rich activities including creation,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Qinglin Yang , Yetong Zhao , Huawei Huang , Zehui Xiong , Jiawen Kang , Zibin Zheng

The metaverse, enormous virtual-physical cyberspace, has brought unprecedented opportunities for artists to blend every corner of our physical surroundings with digital creativity. This article conducts a comprehensive survey on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Lik-Hang Lee , Zijun Lin , Rui Hu , Zhengya Gong , Abhishek Kumar , Tangyao Li , Sijia Li , Pan Hui

The term "metaverse", a three-dimensional virtual universe similar to the real realm, has always been full of imagination since it was put forward in the 1990s. Recently, it is possible to realize the metaverse with the continuous emergence…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ruoyu Zhao , Yushu Zhang , Youwen Zhu , Rushi Lan , Zhongyun Hua

A Metaverse is a perpetual, immersive, and shared digital universe that is linked to but beyond the physical reality, and this emerging technology is attracting enormous attention from different industries. In this article, we define the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Haoxin Wang , Ziran Wang , Dawei Chen , Qiang Liu , Hongyu Ke , Kyungtae Han

We introduce the concept of a meta-object, a next-generation virtual object that inherits the form, properties, and functions of its real-world counterpart, enabling seamless synchronization, interaction, and sharing between the physical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Dooyoung Kim , Taewook Ha , Jinseok Hong , Seonji Kim , Selin Choi , Heejeong Ko , Woontack Woo

The wireless metaverse will create diverse user experiences at the intersection of the physical, digital, and virtual worlds. These experiences will enable novel interactions between the constituents (e.g., extended reality (XR) users and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Omar Hashash , Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad , Tao Yu , Kei Sakaguchi , Merouane Debbah

Spurred by the severe restrictions on mobility due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is currently intense interest in developing the Metaverse, to offer virtual services/business online. A key enabler of such virtual service is the digital…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Yue Han , Dusit Niyato , Cyril Leung , Chunyan Miao , Dong In Kim

The Metaverse and its promises are fast becoming reality as maturing technologies are empowering the different facets. One of the highlights of the Metaverse is that it offers the possibility for highly immersive and interactive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Wenhan Yu , Terence Jie Chua , Jun Zhao

The metaverse promises unprecedented immersive digital experiences but also raises critical privacy concerns as vast amounts of personal and behavioral data are collected. As immersive technologies blur the boundaries between physical and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Muhammad Irfan Khalid , Ilias Pappas , Moatasim Mahmoud , Stamatia Rizou

Metaverse is an evolving orchestrator of the next-generation Internet architecture that produces an immersive and self-adapting virtual world in which humans perform activities similar to those in the real world, such as playing sports,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Mansoor Ali , Faisal Naeem , Georges Kaddoum , Ekram Hossain

Metaverse is an immersive shared space that remote users can access through virtual and augmented reality interfaces, enabling their avatars to interact with each other and the surrounding. Although digital objects can be manipulated,…