Impact of Metaverse in the Near ‘Future’

摘要

Ever since Neel Stephenson's novel ‘Snow Crash’ was published in 1992, the metaverse and its virtual space have been evolving. Because of the growing desire for immersion, this survey article is the first endeavor to offer a comprehensive framework that assesses the contemporary metaverse development under the perspectives of state-of-the-art innovations and digital world ecosystems. So, we re-investigate eight enabling technologies: Extended Reality, User Interactivity, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Computer Vision, IoT and Robots, Future Mobile Networks etcetera. The metaverse environment in application terms means empowering users to interact with and live within a subconscious everlasting and shared reality. A wide range of computer-mediated virtual environments that we have created include social networks, video conferencing, virtual 3D worlds (like VR Chat), augmented reality apps (like Pokemon Go), and non-fungible token games (like Upland).Although transient and unconnected, these virtual environments have brought about various levels of digital change for us. Thus, we propose clear future research for the metaverse's advancement.