TY  - GEN
A1  - Ritterbusch, Georg David
A1  - Teichmann, Malte Rolf
T1  - Defining the metaverse
BT  - A systematic literature review
T2  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - The term Metaverse is emerging as a result of the late push by multinational technology conglomerates and a recent surge of interest in Web 3.0, Blockchain, NFT, and Cryptocurrencies. From a scientific point of view, there is no definite consensus on what the Metaverse will be like. This paper collects, analyzes, and synthesizes scientific definitions and the accompanying major characteristics of the Metaverse using the methodology of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). Two revised definitions for the Metaverse are presented, both condensing the key attributes, where the first one is rather simplistic holistic describing “a three-dimensional online environment in which users represented by avatars interact with each other in virtual spaces decoupled from the real physical world”. In contrast, the second definition is specified in a more detailed manner in the paper and further discussed. These comprehensive definitions offer specialized and general scholars an application within and beyond the scientific context of the system science, information system science, computer science, and business informatics, by also introducing open research challenges. Furthermore, an outlook on the social, economic, and technical implications is given, and the preconditions that are necessary for a successful implementation are discussed.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 159 
KW  - Metaverse
KW  - Systematics
KW  - Bibliometrics
KW  - Augmented reality
KW  - Taxonomy
KW  - Semantic Web
KW  - Second Life
KW  - Blockchains
KW  - Economics
Y1  - 2023
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-588799
SN  - 1867-5808
IS  - 159
SP  - 12368
EP  - 12377
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ritterbusch, Georg David
A1  - Teichmann, Malte Rolf
T1  - Defining the metaverse
BT  - A systematic literature review
JF  - IEEE Access
N2  - The term Metaverse is emerging as a result of the late push by multinational technology conglomerates and a recent surge of interest in Web 3.0, Blockchain, NFT, and Cryptocurrencies. From a scientific point of view, there is no definite consensus on what the Metaverse will be like. This paper collects, analyzes, and synthesizes scientific definitions and the accompanying major characteristics of the Metaverse using the methodology of a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). Two revised definitions for the Metaverse are presented, both condensing the key attributes, where the first one is rather simplistic holistic describing “a three-dimensional online environment in which users represented by avatars interact with each other in virtual spaces decoupled from the real physical world”. In contrast, the second definition is specified in a more detailed manner in the paper and further discussed. These comprehensive definitions offer specialized and general scholars an application within and beyond the scientific context of the system science, information system science, computer science, and business informatics, by also introducing open research challenges. Furthermore, an outlook on the social, economic, and technical implications is given, and the preconditions that are necessary for a successful implementation are discussed.
KW  - Metaverse
KW  - Systematics
KW  - Bibliometrics
KW  - Augmented reality
KW  - Taxonomy
KW  - Semantic Web
KW  - Second Life
KW  - Blockchains
KW  - Economics
Y1  - 2023
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3241809
SN  - 2169-3536
VL  - 11
SP  - 12368
EP  - 12377
PB  - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
CY  - New York, NY
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schlagintweit, Felix
A1  - Frijia, Gianluca
A1  - Parente, Mariano
T1  - Sarmentofascis zamparelliae n. sp., a new demosponge from the lower Campanian of southern Italy
JF  - Cretaceous research
N2  - A new coralline sponge, exhibiting typical "stromatoporoid" bodyplan, is described as Sarmentofascis zamparelliae n. sp. from the lower Campanian of the southern Apennines, Italy. It is differentiated from Sarmentofascis cretacea (Turnsek) (Hauterivian of Montenegro) and Sarmentofascis chabrieri Termier, Termier and Vachard (Santonian of France) above all by its slender arborescent skeleton, exhibiting longitudinally distributed astrorhizae-like canals. S. zamparelliae n. sp. is the youngest representative of the genus and is reported from a period exhibiting a distinct decline of "stromatoporoid" sponges. With its clinogonal microstructure and occurrence in inner platform stromatoporoid-foraminiferan floatstones it can be considered a Late Cretaceous environmental analog to the Late Jurassic Cladocoropsis. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW  - Sponges
KW  - Systematics
KW  - Sarmentofascis
KW  - Cladocoropsis
KW  - Upper Cretaceous
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2015.07.018
SN  - 0195-6671
SN  - 1095-998X
VL  - 57
SP  - 157
EP  - 164
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - London
ER  -