IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing (Sep 2023)

A metaworld: Implications, opportunities and risks of the metaverse

  • Fabio De Felice,
  • Mizna Rehman,
  • Antonella Petrillo,
  • Ilaria Baffo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1049/cim2.12079
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 3
pp. n/a – n/a

Abstract

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Abstract Cyberspace has continued to change throughout the 1990s and 2000s, when the Internet became widely used. The concept of a massive, integrated, sustainable, and interconnected cyber world is the heart of the metaverse. The aim of the metaverse is to create a digital world that is analogous to the existing world. Thus, the most recent metaverse development is investigated in light of cutting‐edge technologies and metaverse ecosystems. To this end, a pilot survey to provide a first overview of upcoming challenges and opportunities of the metaverse is presented. The results provide researchers with a direction for future study as well as potential applications in the metaverse.

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