Research streams and open challenges in the metaverse

The metaverse is seen as a future generation of the Internet in which the virtual and the real merge into a common world. Technologies such as IoT, cloud computing, artificial intelligence or the reality–virtuality continuum underpin the metaverse and condition its evolution. This paper presents a b...

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Published inThe Journal of supercomputing Vol. 80; no. 2; pp. 1598 - 1639
Main Author Carrión, Carmen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.01.2024
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Artificial intelligence
Cloud computing
Compilers
Computer Science
Cryptography
Digital twins
Evolution
Interpreters
Processor Architectures
Programming Languages
Bibliometric study
Democracy
Metaverse
Open challenges
Ecosystem
Technologies
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Summary:The metaverse is seen as a future generation of the Internet in which the virtual and the real merge into a common world. Technologies such as IoT, cloud computing, artificial intelligence or the reality–virtuality continuum underpin the metaverse and condition its evolution. This paper presents a bibliometric study on the WoS database (from 1995 to 2022) to obtain a comprehensive and non-subjective understanding of the metaverse. The study identifies the main subject areas and sources, the leading countries and authors. It also analyzes the evolution over time and the core and future research themes. Extended reality, blockchain, artificial intelligence and sensors are identified as core themes, while building information modeling, digital twins and governance emerge as future themes. Based on the bibliometric study, a general layered metaverse architecture is proposed that streamlines open challenges in the metaverse to assist researchers and companies in introducing innovative and disruptive improvements.
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ISSN:0920-8542
1573-0484
DOI:10.1007/s11227-023-05544-1