Critical questions for Facebook’s virtual reality: data, power and the metaverse

Egliston, Ben; Carter, Marcus

doi:10.14763/2021.4.1610

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“…2) Challenges of Data Sharing in metaverse: Sharing data in centralized data exchange platforms can expose sensitive and private data of the data owners to heavy risk in the metaverse [61], [62]. Data in the traditional sharing environment is highly mutable, this results in high latency and lower data availability.…”

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Blockchain for the Metaverse: A Review

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Since Facebook officially changed its name to Metaverse in Oct. 2021, the metaverse has become a new norm of social networks and three-dimensional (3D) virtual worlds. The metaverse aims to bring 3D immersive and personalized experiences to users by leveraging many pertinent technologies. Despite great attention and benefits, a natural question in the metaverse is how to secure its users' digital content and data. In this regard, blockchain is a promising solution owing to its distinct features of decentralization, immutability, and transparency. To better understand the role of blockchain in the metaverse, we aim to provide an extensive survey on the applications of blockchain for the metaverse. We first present a preliminary to blockchain and the metaverse and highlight the motivations behind the use of blockchain for the metaverse. Next, we extensively discuss blockchain-based methods for the metaverse from technical perspectives, such as data acquisition, data storage, data sharing, data interoperability, and data privacy preservation. For each perspective, we first discuss the technical challenges of the metaverse and then highlight how blockchain can help. Moreover, we investigate the impact of blockchain on key-enabling technologies in the metaverse, including Internet-of-Things, digital twins, multi-sensory and immersive applications, artificial intelligence, and big data. We also present some major projects to showcase the role of blockchain in metaverse applications and services. Finally, we present some promising directions to drive further research innovations and developments towards the use of blockchain in the metaverse in the future.

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“…3) How blockchain can help: Blockchain technology can make the transactions in crypto exchange, education, and other applications more transparent and precise in the metaverse [62]. Applications like governance and finance will generate a decentralized, immutable record of all transactions, allowing stakeholders to view these records.…”

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Blockchain for the Metaverse: A Review

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Wang³

et al. 2022

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“…Oculus is leading the customer-based market of the VR headset given its affordable price, portability, and sufficient capability [62]. Oculus Quest 2, released in 2021, is equipped with four infrared cameras that enable location tracking, hand tracking, and pass-through.…”

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Extended Reality Application Framework for a Digital-Twin-Based Smart Crane

Yang

Autiosalo

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Industry 4.0 is moving forward under technology upgrades, utilizing information technology to improve the intelligence of the industry, whereas Industry 5.0 is value-driven, aiming to focus on essential societal needs, values, and responsibility. The manufacturing industry is currently moving towards the integration of productivity enhancements and sustainable human employment. Such a transformation has deeply changed the human–machine interaction (HMI), among which digital twin (DT) and extended reality (XR) are two cutting-edge technologies. A manufacturing DT offers an opportunity to simulate, monitor, and optimize the machine. In the meantime, XR empowers HMI in the industrial field. This paper presents an XR application framework for DT-based services within a manufacturing context. This work aims to develop a technological framework to improve the efficiency of the XR application development and the usability of the XR-based HMI systems. We first introduce four layers of the framework, including the perception layer with the physical machine and its ROS-based simulation model, the machine communication layer, the network layer containing three kinds of communication middleware, and the Unity-based service layer creating XR-based digital applications. Subsequently, we conduct the responsiveness test for the framework and describe several XR industrial applications for a DT-based smart crane. Finally, we highlight the research challenges and potential issues that should be further addressed by analyzing the performance of the whole framework.

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“…Increasingly, Facebook's VR suite of Oculus technologies operate as MR rather than simply VR – with the most recent ‘Quest’ consoles including a feature for moving between digital and physical environments, and for layering persistent digital interfaces over physical space (see Egliston and Carter, 2021c; Saker and Frith, 2020). It is here that the company has imagined new advances in MR computing, such as a virtual desktop that overlays one's physical environment (see Figure 1), facilitating work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic (Oculus, 2020).…”

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“…MR, in this sense, ought to be understood not in terms of the kind of 'image' it produces, but in terms of how these imageswhere the digital is part of our vision of the worldestablish new configurations of perception and agency through the interplay between digital and physical space. As emerging accounts of MR have shown (Egliston and Carter, 2021c), these capacities for mediation are subtended by technologies and techniques of data capture and processing as a means to translate the embodied inputs and rhythms of the user and their environment into a machine-readable format for the MR system.…”

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‘The interface of the future’: Mixed reality, intimate data and imagined temporalities

Egliston

Carter

2022

Big Data & Society

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This article examines discourses about mixed reality as a data-rich sensing technology – specifically, engaging with discourses of time as framed by developers, engineers and in corporate PR and marketing in a range of public facing materials. We focus on four main settings in which mixed reality is imagined to be used, and in which time was a dominant discursive theme – (1) the development of mixed reality by big tech companies, (2) the use of mixed reality for defence, (3) mixed reality as a technology for control of populations in civil society and (4) mixed reality as a technology used in workplace settings. Across these settings, the broad narrative is that mixed reality technologies afford overwhelmingly positive benefits like efficiency and security through their capture, relay and rendition of data (about the environment, about the body etc.) – affording a form of anticipatory power to the user. The framing of temporality, we argue, is underlain by social and political values, which represent certain interests, but leave others out in the imagination of mixed reality's technological advance.

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Critical questions for Facebook’s virtual reality: data, power and the metaverse

Cited by 58 publications

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Blockchain for the Metaverse: A Review

Blockchain for the Metaverse: A Review

Extended Reality Application Framework for a Digital-Twin-Based Smart Crane

‘The interface of the future’: Mixed reality, intimate data and imagined temporalities

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