Navigating industry 5.0: A survey of key enabling technologies, trends, challenges, and opportunities

R Tallat, A Hawbani, X Wang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This century has been a major avenue for revolutionary changes in technology and industry.
Industries have transitioned towards intelligent automation, relying less on human …

Inclusive Immersion: a review of efforts to improve accessibility in virtual reality, augmented reality and the metaverse

J Dudley, L Yin, V Garaj, PO Kristensson - Virtual Reality, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) afford new forms of work and
leisure. While affordable and effective VR and AR headsets are now available, neither …

What is the Metaverse and who seeks to define it? Mapping the site of social construction

M Dolata, G Schwabe - Journal of Information Technology, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The Metaverse has become a buzz-phrase among tech businesses. Facebook's rebranding
to Meta is symptomatic of this. Many firms and other actors are trying to shape visions of the …

[HTML][HTML] Digital business model innovation in metaverse: How to approach virtual economy opportunities

I Mancuso, AM Petruzzelli, U Panniello - Information Processing & …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent times, continuous evolutions in digital technologies are triggering new business
models (BMs) within virtual environments. This phenomenon is defining a new economy …

Metaverse: How to approach its challenges from a BISE perspective

C Peukert, C Weinhardt, O Hinz… - Business & Information …, 2022 - Springer
In 2009, the former BISE Editor-in-Chief Ulrich Buhl and his colleague Robert Winter
described what happened with the development of the concept of ''virtualization''from their …

Physical and digital worlds: implications and opportunities of the metaverse

F De Felice, C De Luca, S Di Chiara… - Procedia Computer …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Metaverse is revolutionizing the world of the internet. It is the new “virtual” universe
capable of going beyond the pure three-dimensional and immersive dimension combining …

Towards an inclusive and accessible metaverse

C Parker, S Yoo, Y Lee, J Fredericks, A Dey… - Extended Abstracts of …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The push towards a Metaverse is growing, with companies such as Meta developing their
own interpretation of what it should look like. The Metaverse at its conceptual core promises …

Envisioning an inclusive metaverse: Student perspectives on accessible and empowering metaverse-enabled learning

R Hadi Mogavi, J Hoffman, C Deng, Y Du… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The emergence of the metaverse is being widely viewed as a revolutionary technology
owing to a myriad of factors, particularly the potential to increase the accessibility of learning …

The perception of smart contracts for governance of the metaverse

J Oppenlaender - Proceedings of the 25th International Academic …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Smart contracts are a method for implementing direct democracy in virtual worlds. However,
it is not clear whether voting preferences in the virtual world will mirror real-world voting …

Understanding Social Interactions in Location-Based Games as Hybrid Spaces: Coordination and Collaboration in Raiding in PokéMon GO

J Xu, K Papangelis, J Dunham, C Boulanger… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The overlaying of physical spaces with digital information produces hybrid spaces,
redefining people's experience of social interactions. Location-based games (LBGs) with …