The metaverse is touted as an exciting new technology amalgamation facilitating next-level immersive experiences for users. However, initial experiences indicate that a host of privacy, security and control issues will need to be effectively resolved...
The metaverse, which amalgamates physical and virtual realms for diverse social activities, has been the focus of extensive application development by organizations, research institutes, and companies. However, these applications are often isolated,...
In the rapidly evolving landscape of distributed systems, security stands as a significant challenge, especially in the face of network node attacks. Such threats introduce profound complexities into the dynamics of security protocols, trust manageme...
The rapid expansion of the Metaverse presents complex security challenges, particularly in verifying virtual objects and avatars within immersive environments. Conventional authentication methods, such as passwords and biometrics, often prove inadequ...
Digitization and automation have always had an immense impact on healthcare. It embraces every new and advanced technology. Recently the world has witnessed the prominence of the metaverse which is an emerging technology in digital space. The metaver...
Compared to traditional platform environments in the online realm, the metaverse, as a three-dimensional (3D) virtual world, exposes more identity data to the network. Once these data are compromised, it leads to privacy breaches. Therefore, how to e...
The Internet of Things (IoT) and the metaverse are two rapidly evolving technologies that have the potential to shape the future of our digital world. IoT refers to the network of physical devices, vehicles, buildings, and other objects that are conn...
The Industrial Metaverse paradigm can be broadly described as a virtual environment that integrates various technologies such as augmented reality and mixed reality to enhance business operations and processes. It aims to streamline workflows, reduce...
Quantum computing presents a critical threat to the cryptographic basis of metaverse platforms, with Shor’s algorithm capable of breaking traditional public-key cryptography and Grover’s algorithm significantly weakening symmetric encrypt...
The metaverse provides a virtual world with many social activities that parallel the real world. As the metaverse attracts more attention, the importance of security and privacy preservation is increasing significantly. In the metaverse, users have t...
The authenticated key exchange (AKE) protocol can ensure secure communication between a client and a server in the electricity transaction of the Energy Internet of things (EIoT). Park proposed a two-factor authentication protocol 2PAKEP, whose compu...
Virtual reality (VR)/the metaverse is transforming into a ubiquitous technology by leveraging smart devices to provide highly immersive experiences at an affordable price. Cryptographically securing such augmented reality schemes is of paramount impo...
As many companies adopted hybrid work arrangements during and after the COVID-19 outbreak, interest in Metaverse applications for virtual offices grew considerably. Along with this growing interest, the risk of data breaches has also increased, as vi...
The rapid adoption of Metaverse technologies in healthcare, particularly for elder safety monitoring, has introduced new security challenges related to the authenticity of virtual representations. As healthcare providers increasingly rely on avatars...
The Metaverse is a multi-user virtual world that combines physical reality with digital virtual reality. The three basic technologies for building the Metaverse are immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. Companies are subseq...
The Metaverse brings together components of parallel processing computing platforms, the digital development of physical systems, cutting-edge machine learning, and virtual identity to uncover a fully digitalized environment with equal properties to...
Driven by technological advances in various fields (AI, 5G, VR, IoT, etc.) together with the emergence of digital twins technologies (HDT, HAL, BIM, etc.), the Metaverse has attracted growing attention from scientific and industrial communities. This...
This study investigates the high-quality data processing technology, immersive experience mechanisms, and large-scale access in the Metaverse, concurrently ensuring robust privacy and security. We commence with a comprehensive analysis of the Metaver...
25 February 2026
This study examines customers’ continuance intention in metaverse services by integrating technological, content, and social-relational dimensions and assessing the role of immersiveness. Six focal antecedents are considered, namely, technologi...
This research paper explores the intersection of the Metaverse and remote working, specifically concerning young entrepreneurs. Its primary objective is to examine the opportunities and challenges presented by the Metaverse for this demographic engag...
Rapid urbanisation has intensified the need for sustainable solutions to address challenges in urban infrastructure, climate change, and resource constraints. This study reveals that Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled metaverse offers transformativ...
The concept of Cyber–Physical–Social Systems (CPSSs) has emerged as a response to the need to understand the interaction between Cyber–Physical Systems (CPSs) and humans. This shift from CPSs to CPSSs is primarily due to the widespr...
This paper analyses sexual crimes within the Metaverse to develop an effective legal framework. The aim is to enhance safety in virtual realities, ensuring the Metaverse remains a secure, respectful, and liberating environment for all users. As the M...
As we transition into the era of Web 3.0, where decentralized information and user privacy are paramount, emerging technologies are reshaping the way in which personal data are managed. This paper focuses on decentralized identity management (DID) in...
Collective virtual spaces are increasing attention from scholars and practitioners due to their potential to lead business growth while reducing environmental impacts. The Metaverse, with its immersive digital presence and virtual economies, serves a...
In recent years, the attention paid to the metaverse in the scientific world has increased; the hottest topics include system architecture and enabling technologies, as well as business, privacy, ethical, and security issues. On the other side, at th...
As the metaverse evolves toward a large-scale multi-domain ecosystem, in which different domains may rely on different trust models, avatar cross-metaverse access increasingly depends on prior authentication between heterogeneous domains. Existing sc...
Metaverse is the buzz technology of the moment raising attention both from academia and industry. Many stakeholders are considering an extension of their existing applications into the metaverse environment for more usability. The healthcare industry...
The Metaverse, an immersive virtual ecosystem powered by Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), presents a transformative opportunity for education. In India, digital education has grown significantly, yet cha...
The metaverse, as an envisioned paradigm of the future internet, aims to establish an immersive and multidimensional virtual space in which global users can interact with one another, as in the real world. With the rapid development of emerging techn...
The metaverse represents a transformative integration of virtual and physical worlds, offering unprecedented opportunities for social interaction, commerce, education, healthcare, and entertainment. Establishing trust in these expansive and decentral...
The Metaverse is an end-users-oriented integration of various layers of Information Technology (IT), where Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) would be the core technology. With the rapid development of IT, the Metaverse would allow users to conne...
This article introduces a robust metaverse forensic framework designed to facilitate the investigation of cybercrime within the dynamic and complex digital metaverse. In response to the growing potential for nefarious activities in this technological...
This study examines experiential and financial factors associated with Metaverse readiness in Lebanon. Drawing on a socio-technical readiness perspective informed by selected concepts from technology adoption literature, the study explores how intere...
Over recent decades, internet-based communication has grown exponentially, accompanied by a surge in cyber threats from malicious actors targeting users and organizations, heightening the demand for robust security and privacy measures. With the emer...
Metaverse presents significant opportunities for educational advancement by facilitating immersive, personalized, and interactive learning experiences through technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), extended reality (XR), a...
Modern education faces persistent challenges, including disengagement, inequitable access to learning resources, and the lack of personalized instruction, particularly in virtual environments. In this perspective, we envision a transformative Metaver...
The leisure industry exerts adverse effects on the natural environment, creating critical challenges for achieving clean and sustainable environmental goals. However, the potential role of metaverse technologies in mitigating these challenges remains...
This research introduces a sustainable, metaverse-based vocational preparation program designed to empower adults with disabilities, providing them with the necessary skills to secure and retain employment in a landscape drastically altered by the Fo...
By using the machine learning of artificial intelligence to explore the application business opportunities of the Metaverse in the MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) interactive game market, we study the supply and demand laws of...
Although the Metaverse is becoming a popular technology in many aspects of our lives, there are some drawbacks to its implementation on clouds, including long latency, security concerns, and centralized infrastructures. Therefore, designing scalable...
This study explores the process of creating avatars for Virtual Reality and metaverse environments using a variety of specialized applications, including VRChat, Ready Player Me, VRoidStudio, Mixamo, Convai, and MetaHuman. By evaluating these platfor...
This scoping review examines the broad applications, risks, and ethical challenges associated with Extended Reality (XR) technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR), within the context of Metaverse. XR...
This study investigates the potential of integrating multilayer animations and sophisticated shader technologies to enhance visitor social interactions within metaverse exhibition spaces. It is part of a broader initiative aimed at developing innovat...
For the next coming years, metaverse, digital twin and autonomous vehicle applications are the leading technologies for many complex applications hitherto inaccessible such as health and life sciences, smart home, smart agriculture, smart city, smart...
The rise of the experience economy, driven by disruptive technologies delivering innovative experiences, has transformed the interactions between tech-enabled shoppers and the phygital retail complex system. An important knowledge gap is addressed in...
In today’s world, merging sensor-based security systems with contemporary principles has become crucial. As we witness the ever-growing number of interconnected devices in the Internet of Things (IoT), it is imperative to have robust and trustw...
The aim of the peer-to-peer (P2P) decentralized gaming industry has shifted towards realistic gaming environment (GE) support for game players (GPs). Recent innovations in the metaverse have motivated the gaming industry to look beyond augmented real...
As the metaverse progresses, it requires real-time, low-latency, and secure computing capabilities that conventional cloud-based systems cannot fully support. Multiaccess edge computing (MEC) addresses this demand by moving processing closer to the u...
12 April 2023
Objectives: This study aimed to obtain a consensus agreement from an expert panel on the metaverse for exercise rehabilitation in stroke patients using the Delphi technique. Methods: This study recruited twenty-two experts and conducted three rounds...
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