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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

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

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

The worlds of computing, communication, and storage have for a long time been treated separately, and even the recent trends of cloud computing, distributed computing, and mobile edge computing have not fundamentally changed the role of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Yang Cai , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Andreas F. Molisch

As an evolving successor to the mobile Internet, the Metaverse creates the impression of an immersive environment, integrating the virtual as well as the real world. In contrast to the traditional mobile Internet based on servers, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Jianrui Chen , Jingjing Wang , Chunxiao Jiang , Yong Ren , Lajos Hanzo

The metaverse has awakened users' expectations of an immersive interaction that fuses the virtual digital world and the physical world across space and time. However, the metaverse is still in its infancy, typically expanding multi-player…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yakun Huang , Xiuquan Qiao , Haowen Wang , Xiang Su , Schahram Dustdar , Ping Zhang

Metaverse is an emerging virtual universe where humans can have real-time interactions and solid social links like in the physical world, and it opens up a new era of Internet and interactions. In Metaverse, an immersive and photorealistic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Yitong Wang , Jun Zhao

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

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

In the digital society's evolving landscape, open-source tooling and generative AI are pivotal in transforming global collaboration. These technologies promise to dismantle traditional barriers of accessibility, language, and governance,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-27 John Joseph O'Hare , Allen Fairchild , Umran Ali

The metaverse has received much attention in the literature and industry in the last few years, but the lack of an open and cross-platform architecture has led to many distinct metaverses that cannot communicate with each other. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Giuseppe Macario

Ubiquitous extended reality environments such as the Metaverse will have a significant impact on the Internet, which will evolve to interconnect a large number of mixed reality spaces. Currently, Metaverse development is related to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Paulo Mendes

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 advent of the Metaverse concept has further expedited the evolution of haptic, tactile internet, and multimedia applications with their VR/AR/XR services, and therefore, fully-immersive sensing is most likely to define the next…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Wassim Hamidouche , Lina Bariah , Merouane Debbah

The metaverse and digital, virtual environments have been part of recent history as places in which people can socialize, work and spend time playing games. However, the infancy of the development of these digital, virtual environments…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Matteo Zallio , Takumi Ohashi , P. John Clarkson

Web 3.0 represents the next stage of Internet evolution, aiming to empower users with increased autonomy, efficiency, quality, security, and privacy. This evolution can potentially democratize content access by utilizing the latest…

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) is studied in the context of the Metaverse to provide users immersive cyber-virtual experiences in mixed reality environments. This survey introduces six typical IoT applications in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Kai Li , Yingping Cui , Weicai Li , Tiejun Lv , Xin Yuan , Shenghong Li , Wei Ni , Meryem Simsek , Falko Dressler

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 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

This paper discusses challenges and opportunities of considering the Metaverse as an Information-Centric Network (ICN). The Web today essentially represents a data-centric application layer: data named by URLs is manipulated with REST…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Dirk Kutscher , Jeff Burke , Giuseppe Fioccola , Paulo Mendes