The metaverse and virtual worlds are set to shift in how people can interact with the world using technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality, blockchain and IoT to form a new immersive intelligent experience and beyond. For example, cities have an exciting opportunity to play in how the metaverse comes to be. This page shares the latest information and literature on how cities, countries and industries are engaging with the metaverse.
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Publications
2025
- Metaverse policing: A systematic literature review of challenges and recommendations – Elsevier
- The bright and dark side of metaverse marketing – Wiley
- Excessive use in the metaverse: The role of multisensory interaction – Elsevier
- Metaverse for Manufacturing: Leveraging Extended Reality Technology for Human-Centric Production Systems – MDPI
2024
- The Metaverse: Opportunities and Challenges for the Financial Services Industry – Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research
- Trend Report of Virtual Worlds (Metaverse) – European Commission
- Metaverse Identity: Defining the Self in a Blended Reality – WEF and Accenture
- Beyond virtual boundaries: the intersection of the metaverse technologies, tourism, and lifelong learning in China’s digital discourse – Nature
- User Connection and Resource Allocation Optimization in Blockchain Empowered Metaverse Over 6G Wireless Communications – IEEE
- The Metaverse for Industry 5.0 in NextG Communications: Potential Applications and Future Challenges – IEEE
- The Consumer Metaverse – Consumers in the Immersive Digital World – TEAM FINLAND
- The Next Frontier in Customer Experience Design – Boston Consulting Group
- Interoperability and ecosystems: Assembling the industrial metaverse – Siemens
- The Metaverse in 2040 – Pew Research Center
- Navigating the Industrial Metaverse: A Blueprint for Future Innovations – WEF and Accenture
- The economic implications of services in the metaverse – Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
- IP and Metaverse(s) – an externally commissioned research report – UK Intellectual Property Office
- Unleashing European Innovations for the Metaverse – LSE Consulting
- Metaverse: A law enforcement perspective – Interpol
- Youth Privacy in Immersive Technologies: Regulatory Guidance, Lessons Learned, and Remaining Uncertainties – Future of Privacy Forum
- Edge IoT Industrial Immersive Technologies and Spatial Computing Continuum – Alliance for IoT and Edge Computing Innovation
- The application of metaverse in healthcare – Frontiers
- Metaverse in education: opportunities and challenges – Frontiers
- Investigating the efficacy of virtual reality exposure for crowd management: a real-world application – Frontiers
- Shared Commitments in a Blended Reality: Advancing Governance in the Future Internet – WEF