The metaverse as a virtual form of smart cities: Opportunities and challenges for environmental, economic, and social sustainability in urban futures

Z Allam, A Sharifi, SE Bibri, DS Jones, J Krogstie - Smart Cities, 2022 - mdpi.com
Data infrastructures, economic processes, and governance models of digital platforms are
increasingly pervading urban sectors and spheres of urban life. This phenomenon is known …

A review of metaverse's definitions, architecture, applications, challenges, issues, solutions, and future trends

AM Al-Ghaili, H Kasim, NM Al-Hada, ZB Hassan… - Ieee …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Metaverse is a vision enabling to constitute an environment in which someone could see
real and virtualized worlds. The Metaverse is a product (or something similar as we do not …

The social shaping of the metaverse as an alternative to the imaginaries of data-driven smart Cities: A study in science, technology, and society

SE Bibri - Smart Cities, 2022 - mdpi.com
Science and technology transform the frontiers of knowledge and have deep and powerful
impacts on society, demonstrating how social reality varies with each era of the world. As a …

The Metaverse as a virtual form of data-driven smart urbanism: On post-pandemic governance through the prism of the logic of surveillance capitalism

SE Bibri, Z Allam - Smart Cities, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Metaverse, as a gigantic ecosystem application enabled mainly by Artificial Intelligence
(AI), the IoT, Big Data, and Extended Reality (XR) technologies, represents an idea of a …

The Metaverse as a virtual form of data-driven smart urbanism: platformization and its underlying processes, institutional dimensions, and disruptive impacts

SE Bibri, Z Allam, J Krogstie - Computational Urban Science, 2022 - Springer
The emerging phenomenon of platformization has given rise to what has been termed"
platform society,“a digitally connected world where platforms have penetrated the heart of …

Toward Metaverse of everything: Opportunities, challenges, and future directions of the next generation of visual/virtual communications

SB Far, AI Rad, SMH Bamakan, MR Asaar - Journal of Network and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The emergence of Metaverse, a digital environment built on Web 3.0 technologies, has
garnered significant attention from various industries and fields, including science and …

Investigating users' acceptance of the metaverse with an extended technology acceptance model

R Wu, Z Yu - International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The Metaverse, characterized as an interactive and immersive 3D virtual world, is widely
recognized for its considerable potential across a range of industries. However, the long …

Exploring the intersection of sustainable consumption and the Metaverse: A review of current literature and future research directions

A Pellegrino, A Stasi, R Wang - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
This study aims to analyze the intersection between the Metaverse and sustainable
consumption by examining and reviewing 21 journal articles and to identify future research …

Application of digital twins and metaverse in the field of fluid machinery pumps and fans: A review

B Yang, S Yang, Z Lv, F Wang, T Olofsson - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Digital twins technology (DTT) is an application framework with breakthrough rules. With the
deep integration of the virtual information world and physical space, it becomes the basis for …

[PDF][PDF] Metaverse: open possibilities

M Aljanabi, SY Mohammed - Iraqi Journal For Computer Science and …, 2023 - iasj.net
To create a completely immersive, highly spatiotemporal, and self-sustaining virtual shared
place for humans to play, work, and interact, the Metaverse is an emerging paradigm of the …