Defining the metaverse
- 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 systemThe 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.…
Author details: | Georg David RitterbuschORCiD, Malte Rolf TeichmannORCiD |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3241809 |
ISSN: | 2169-3536 |
Title of parent work (English): | IEEE Access |
Subtitle (English): | A systematic literature review |
Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Place of publishing: | New York, NY |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2023/02/02 |
Publication year: | 2023 |
Release date: | 2023/04/18 |
Tag: | Economics Augmented reality; Bibliometrics; Blockchains; Metaverse; Second Life; Semantic Web; Systematics; Taxonomy |
Volume: | 11 |
Number of pages: | 10 |
First page: | 12368 |
Last Page: | 12377 |
Funding institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Funding institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
Funding number: | PA 2023_011 |
Funding number: | Projektnummer 491466077 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
DDC classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Grantor: | Publikationsfonds der Universität Potsdam |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
External remark: | Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe ; 159 |