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As the Metaverse is iteratively being defined, its potential to unleash the next wave of digital disruption and create real-life value becomes increasingly clear. With distinctive features of immersive experience, simultaneous…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Siyue Zhang , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Wei Chong Ng , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Xuemin Sherman Shen , Chunyan Miao

Traditional education has been updated with the development of information technology in human history. Within big data and cyber-physical systems, the Metaverse has generated strong interest in various applications (e.g., entertainment,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Hong Lin , Shicheng Wan , Wensheng Gan , Jiahui Chen , Han-Chieh Chao

Recently, significant research efforts have been initiated to enable the next-generation, namely, the sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems. In this article, we present a vision of metaverse towards effectively enabling the development of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Latif U. Khan , Zhu Han , Dusit Niyato , Mohsen Guizani , Choong Seon Hong

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…

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

The metaverse promises a host of bright opportunities for business, economics, and society. Though, a number of critical aspects are still to be considered and the analysis of their impact is almost non-existent. In this paper, we provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Roberto Di Pietro , Stefano Cresci

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

With the evolution of content on the web and the Internet, there is a need for cyberspace that can be used to work, live, and play in digital worlds regardless of geography. The Metaverse provides the possibility of future Internet and…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Zefeng Chen , Wensheng Gan , Jiayi Sun , Jiayang Wu , Philip S. Yu

Since the popularisation of the Internet in the 1990s, the cyberspace has kept evolving. We have created various computer-mediated virtual environments including social networks, video conferencing, virtual 3D worlds (e.g., VR Chat),…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Lik-Hang Lee , Tristan Braud , Pengyuan Zhou , Lin Wang , Dianlei Xu , Zijun Lin , Abhishek Kumar , Carlos Bermejo , Pan Hui

Digital Twins (DTs) are a conventional and well-known concept, proposed in 70s, that are popular in a broad spectrum of sciences, industry innovations, and consortium alliances. However, in the last few years, the growth of digital assets…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Saeed Banaeian Far , Azadeh Imani Rad

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

Dubbed "the successor to the mobile Internet", the concept of the Metaverse has grown in popularity. While there exist lite versions of the Metaverse today, they are still far from realizing the full vision of an immersive, embodied, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Minrui Xu , Wei Chong Ng , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Qiang Yang , Xuemin Sherman Shen , Chunyan Miao

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

The concept of Metaverse has attracted a lot of attention in various fields and one of its important applications is health and treatment. The Metaverse has enormous potential to transform healthcare by changing patient care, medical…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Fatemeh Ebrahimzadeh , Ramin Safa

Despite the proliferation of Blockchain Metaverse projects, the inclusion of physically disabled individuals in the Metaverse remains distant, with limited standards and regulations in place. However, the article proposes a concept of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Petar Radanliev , David De Roure , Peter Novitzky , Ivo Sluganovic

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

With the advent of new technologies and endeavors for automation in almost all day-to-day activities, the recent discussions on the metaverse life have a greater expectation. Furthermore, we are in the era of the fifth industrial…

The Metaverse refers to a virtual-physical blended space in which multiple users can concurrently interact with a unified computer-generated environment and other users, which can be regarded as the next significant milestone of the current…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Lik-Hang Lee , Pengyuan Zhou , Tristan Braud , Pan Hui

As a digital environment of interconnected virtual ecosystems driven by measured and synthesized data, the Metaverse has so far been mostly considered from its gaming perspective that closely aligns with online edutainment. Although it is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Eric Guiffo Kaigom

The rapid progress in digitalization and automation have led to an accelerated growth in healthcare, generating novel models that are creating new channels for rendering treatment with reduced cost. The Metaverse is an emerging technology…