Live briefing
Everything about Metaverse
Collective three-dimensional virtual shared space
A metaverse is a virtual world in which users interact while represented by avatars, typically in a 3D display, with the experience focused on social and economic connection. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MetaverseA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The Metaverse as a Virtual Form of Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges for Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability in Urban FuturesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Davinci Code DecodedThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Metaverse beyond the hype: Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policyCited 2,300 times
- Go sideways: Horizon WorldsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Reality LabsA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
Noun A hypothetical future (counterpart or continuation of the) Internet, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space.
Noun A set or the composite of all universes.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Metaverse beyond the hype: Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy
Metaverse
A Metaverse: Taxonomy, Components, Applications, and Open Challenges
A Survey on Metaverse: Fundamentals, Security, and Privacy
3D Virtual worlds and the metaverse
Metaverse as a disruptive technology revolutionising tourism management and marketing
Educational applications of metaverse: possibilities and limitations
Metaverse marketing: How the metaverse will shape the future of consumer research and practice
🆕 Influential since 2022
The Metaverse as a Virtual Form of Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges for Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability in Urban Futures
A Survey on the Metaverse: The State-of-the-Art, Technologies, Applications, and Challenges
Blockchain for the metaverse: A Review
“Extending the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to Predict University Students’ Intentions to Use Metaverse-Based Learning Platforms”
Artificial intelligence for the metaverse: A survey
đź“š Books worth reading
- 📕The Davinci Code DecodedLeonardo da Vinci · 2023
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
đź”— Related topics
- Horizon Worlds Meta Horizon Worlds is an online multiplayer game, as well as game platform and game creation system, developed and published by Meta Platforms. Horizon…
- Reality Labs Reality Labs, formerly Facebook Reality Labs and Oculus VR, is a business and research unit of Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook Inc.) that produces virtual…
- Meta Quest Pro The Meta Quest Pro is a discontinued mixed reality (MR) headset developed by Reality Labs, a division of Meta Platforms. Unveiled on October 11, 2022 and…
- Virtual reality game A virtual reality game (VR game) is a video game played on virtual reality (VR) hardware. Most VR games are based on player immersion, typically through…
- Quest 2 The Quest 2 is a discontinued standalone virtual reality headset developed by Reality Labs, a division of Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms). It was unveiled…
- Virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D head-mounted displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual…
- Virtual crime Virtual crime can be described as a criminal act conducted in a virtual world – usually massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). To grasp…
- Meta Platforms Meta Platforms, Inc. (doing business as Meta), headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is an American multinational technology company and is one of the…