Metaverse beyond the hype: Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policy

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Highlights：

• The metaverse has the potential to extend the physical world using extended, augmented, and virtual reality technologies.

• Interactive virtual environments and immersive games are considered as antecedents of the metaverse.

• The transformative impact of the metaverse as well as societal effects relating to social interaction factors from widespread adoption.

• Sectors potentially impacted by the metaverse include marketing, education, tourism, and healthcare.

摘要

•The metaverse has the potential to extend the physical world using extended, augmented, and virtual reality technologies.•Interactive virtual environments and immersive games are considered as antecedents of the metaverse.•The transformative impact of the metaverse as well as societal effects relating to social interaction factors from widespread adoption.•Sectors potentially impacted by the metaverse include marketing, education, tourism, and healthcare.

论文关键词：Avatars,Augmented reality,Extended reality,Metaverse,Second life,Virtual reality,Virtual world

论文评审过程：Available online 16 July 2022, Version of Record 16 July 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2022.102542