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 …

[HTML][HTML] What is novel about the Metaverse?

S Richter, A Richter - International Journal of Information Management, 2023 - Elsevier
The Metaverse is not a radical departure. It is an incremental evolution. Previous virtual
worlds, like Second Life, have laid the groundwork for the development of the Metaverse by …

Sustainability of the Metaverse: A transition to Industry 5.0

P De Giovanni - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study analyzes the sustainability of the metaverse technology by adopting a
responsible digitalization perspective to drive the transition to Industry 5.0. This is motivated …

The Metaverse as a virtual form of data-driven smart cities: The ethics of the hyper-connectivity, datafication, algorithmization, and platformization of urban society

SE Bibri, Z Allam - Computational Urban Science, 2022 - Springer
Recent advances in computing and immersive technologies have provided Meta (formerly
Facebook) with the opportunity to leapfrog or expedite its way of thinking and devising a …

Travelling the metaverse: Potential benefits and main challenges for tourism sectors and research applications

S Monaco, G Sacchi - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The paper focuses on analysing the potential benefits and challenges of the Metaverse,
particularly in the field of research in the tourism and food and wine sectors. The Metaverse …

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 …

Metaverse chronicles: a bibliometric analysis of its evolving landscape

W Wider, L Jiang, J Lin, MA Fauzi, J Li… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The Metaverse, a hypothetical virtual space where people interact with digital environments,
has gained attention as a transformative concept in various industries like education …

Harnessing the potential of the metaverse and artificial intelligence for the internet of city things: Cost-effective XReality and synergistic AIoT technologies

SE Bibri, SK Jagatheesaperumal - Smart Cities, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Metaverse represents an always-on 3D network of virtual spaces, designed to facilitate
social interaction, learning, collaboration, and a wide range of activities. This emerging …