Designing the Metaverse

Seidel, Stefan; Berente, Nicholas; Nickerson, Jeffrey V.; Yepes, Gregory

doi:10.24251/hicss.2022.811

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“…Concept and framework of the metaverse should be clearly defined. Despite the swift progress achieved in the study of the metaverse, its conceptualization is still uncertain, and boundaries need to be drawn in the metaverse when considering the application scenarios (Dincelli et al, 2022;Mystakidis, 2022;Seidel, Berente, Nickerson, & Yepes, 2022;Yung, Le, Moyle, & Arcodia, 2022). People may think about virtual games when talking about the metaverse, but that can be an incomplete and shortsighted way to discuss the issues at stake (Hollensen, Kotler, & Opresnik, 2022).…”

Section: Metaverse Concept and Frameworkmentioning

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Exploring the metaverse in the digital economy: an overview and research framework

Cheng

Zhang²,

Fu³

et al. 2022

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PurposeMetaverse is a virtual application spawned by digital technology that is becoming increasingly relevant to our lives. However, for the opportunities created and challenges posed by the metaverse, its important elements and future evolution trend remain largely unknown. Thus, this paper aims to understand the current status of metaverse research and its future research directions.Design/methodology/approachBased on the analysis of the literature data on the metaverse both in English and Chinese using Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling and bibliometrics, this study discussed the related research and development trend of the metaverse. The authors first defined the concept of the metaverse and analyzed 1,378 English articles from seven publishers and 590 Chinese articles from the CNKI database. Following that, the authors summarized three important themes from the current studies: virtual world, metaverse technologies and metaverse applications. Finally, a framework of future directions on metaverse research was proposed.FindingsThe review found that during the rapid development of the metaverse, opportunities and challenges coexisted. In the virtual world, metaverse technologies drive the implementation of application scenarios, and in turn, applications promote the improvement of technologies. The interrelationship between technology and application lays the foundation for the development of the metaverse. Future metaverse research will generate different research directions.Originality/valueThis review provides a valuable, systematic perspective for individuals who want to understand the metaverse. The conceptual framework on metaverse research proposed in this paper offers a comparison of literature analysis from domestic and international perspectives and brings new insights into the development of the metaverse.

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Section: Metaverse Concept and Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the metaverse in the digital economy: an overview and research framework

Cheng

Zhang²,

Fu³

et al. 2022

JEBDE

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“…The above indicated steps have been incorporated and followed to design our MetaOntology including concepts, relationships, attributes, and instances. A thorough examination to various academic papers and industrial reports was undergone to extract the technical terminology that is needed to construct the ontology (Kim J, 2021 ; Lee et al, 2021 ; Ning et al, 2021 ; Deloitte., 2022 ; GlobalData., 2022 ; Morgan, 2022 ; Park and Kim, 2022 ; Seidel et al, 2022 ; Valaskova et al, 2022 ; Xu et al, 2022 ).…”

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“…Further, through the facilitation of knowledge capture, storage, integration, and query, ontology technology may enhance coordination and interaction across various metaverses and metaverse applications. Despite limited efforts to offer taxonomies for the metaverse in terms of its infrastructure (Lee et al, 2021 ; Park and Kim, 2022 ; Seidel et al, 2022 ), to the best of our knowledge, there has not been any attempt to create an ontology for the metaverse domain devoted to standardizing and formalizing the state-of-the-art technologies for the designated domain knowledge.…”

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MetaOntology: Toward developing an ontology for the metaverse

Abu-Salih

2022

Front. Big Data

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Metaverse is now perceived as a celebrated future version of the internet. In this new anticipated virtual universe, interconnected digital platforms leveraged by augmented, extended, and virtual realities will elevate users' immersive experiences through multidimensional interactions. In particular, users will be offered a broad spectrum of digital activities within a newly immersive setting mediated by technology. This study aims to design a domain ontology (MetaOntology) for the metaverse to provide an explicit specification of relevant state-of-the-art technologies and infrastructure. A four-step methodological approach is followed to construct the designated ontology. Due to the immaturity of the metaverse, MetaOntology is not intended to furnish a complete outlook on the domain, rather it aims to establish a cornerstone so as to facilitate future efforts in building extant versions of this ontology considering the evolvement of relevant technologies.

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“…Today, the paradigm shift may happen with Metaverse by adding a new dimension to the digitalisation process. In cyberspace, the aim is to produce all-inclusive experiences [2].…”

Section: The Developments In the Virtual Worldmentioning

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Digital Possibilities of the Atmosphere: Metaverse and Hallucinatory Image

Hatıpoǧlu

TATLI>

2022

Eskişehir Technical University Journal of Science and Technology a - Applied Sciences and Engineering

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Considering the propositions of the virtual universe with its short history, there are digital twins and various economic investments. While the Metaverse points out a novel universe, it is able to promise much more than producing a copy of the self and imitation of conventional economic interactions. To reveal these potentials, it is necessary to determine the areas that must be meticulously focused on. Although Metaverse has permeated daily life dialogues, studies in the academic field are limited. Likewise, research about its architecture and space needs to be developed in this area. No matter how far the new universe propositions go, they still stick with the quantitative values of the physical world. This issue obstructs the creation of its own reality. However, the universe's own digitalized digitalised structure does not require that the imagination of the spaces stuck with a quantitative basis. To avoid quantitative and reductive attitudes, focusing on the atmosphere of this universe may be a solution. The study aims to collide the possibilities of the Metaverse and the architectural atmosphere discussions to make an alternative reading of the Metaverse. Developing theories about the atmosphere of spaces and conducting atmospheric studies about Metaverse allow us to develop meta-experiences of the Metaverse. Focusing on the architectural atmosphere, immediate appreciation, ecstatic being and hallucinatory image will deepen the definition of Metaverse and provide a multi-layered experience. The image of the atmosphere and ecstatic being is associated with a ‘hallucinatory image'. The hallucinatory image has a structure that does not narrow down its references to the physical world. With this aspect, it may provide forms of alternative perceptions specific to the Metaverse. The hallucinatory image, parallel with the sensation of an ecstatic being, stimulates us to sense the atmosphere produced by the Metaverse.

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Designing the Metaverse

Cited by 37 publications

References 21 publications

Exploring the metaverse in the digital economy: an overview and research framework

Exploring the metaverse in the digital economy: an overview and research framework

MetaOntology: Toward developing an ontology for the metaverse

Digital Possibilities of the Atmosphere: Metaverse and Hallucinatory Image

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