Metaverse – more resources
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.
Publications

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
- The Metaverse for Industry 5.0 in NextG Communications: Potential Applications and Future Challenges – IEEE
- The Next Frontier in Customer Experience Design – Boston Consulting Group
- 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
2023
- Securing the Metaverse: Addressing the Harms in Extended Reality – Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge
- Taking the Hyperbole Out of the Metaverse – Bain & Company
- Metaverse masters? Expect the unexpected – Accenture
- Metaverse – European Parliament
- The Metaverse: Policy Implications For A New Digital Frontier – Digital Cooperation Organization
- Governing the Metaverse and tomorrow’s internet – Renaissance Numérique
- AI, Blockchain, and Immersive Technologies: Metaversal Business Models of Professional Football Clubs in 2030 – WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management
- The Metaverse and The Future of Travel: Five Things to Consider About Travel in the Metaverse – Ipsos
- The Metaverse: Policy Implications for A New Digital Frontier – Digital Cooperation Organization
- Top100 takeaways: the Meta Shapers Web3 & AI Summit 2023 – Meta Shapers
- Exploring the Industrial Metaverse: A Roadmap to the Future – WEF and University of Cambridge
- Bringing Geospatial Context to the Metaverse: Considerations for the Next Steps – World Geospatial Industry Council
- Exploring the industrial metaverse – Deloitte
- The Industrial Metaverse: Making the invisible visible to drive sustainable growth – Arthur D. Little
- Toward a successful metaverse: The case for measuring enabling factors – Economist & Meta
- Social Implications of the Metaverse – WEF and Accenture
- Embracing Spatial Computing: A Comprehensive Report for Companies, Investors, and Users – Metaverse Summit
- Privacy and Safety in the Metaverse – WEF and Accenture
- The Metaverse and Homeland Security– The RAND Corporation
- An EU initiative on virtual worlds: a head start in the next technological transition – European Commission
- Next-Generation Virtual Worlds: Societal, Technological, Economic and Policy Challenges for the EU – European Commission
- Tampere Metaverse Vision 2040 – The Metaverse Institute
- Metavese – Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Metaverse – Cointelegraph Research
- Metaverse and Money – PayPal
- The Metaverse at Work – a first look at how companies are navigating the industrial and enterprise Metaverses – Nokia & EY
- The Metaverse in Asia – Deloitte
- How expanding ecosystems risks consumer rights to privacy in the Metaverse – Australian Human Rights Commission
- Beyond The Hype Cycle: The Metaverse Matters Now More Than Ever – activate consulting
- AI in metaverse – metaverse summit
- The Metaverse in Asia: Strategies for Accelerating Economic Impact – Deloitte Center for the Edge
- The Metaverse and its Potential for MENA– Deloitte
- The Metaverse and Standards – Standards Australia
- Metaverse Q1 2023 Report– Metaverse Insider
- Demystifying the Consumer Metaverse – WEF & Accenture
- Avatars: Shaping Digital Identity in the Metaverse – Blockchain Research Lab
- The emergent industrial metaverse – MIT Technology Review & Siemens
- Metaverse and Trade-offs — California Management Review
- Amplifying diplomacy with the Metaverse — Accenture & Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy
- The Road to Interoperability – Lighthouse
- Interoperability in the Metaverse – WEF and Accenture
- Building a Responsible Metaverse – Accenture
2022
- Total Immersion: How Immersive Experiences And The Metaverse Benefit Customer Experience And Operations – Capgemini Research Institute
- Metaverse marketing: How the metaverse will shape the future of consumer research and practice – Wiley
- Mixed Reality (MR) for Generation Z in Cultural Heritage Tourism Towards Metaverse – ENTER22 e-Tourism Conference
- The Potential Global Economic Impact of the Metaverse– The Analysis Group
- Japan Case Study – Cluster
- Unlocking the Metaverse & Web3 – Simon Kucher & Partner
- Government Enters the Metaverse – Accenture
- Opportunities in the metaverse – J.P. Morgan
- Metaverse: Opportunities, risks and policy implications – European Parliamentary Research Service
- Regulating the metaverse – Global Counsel
- Metaverse and Money – Citi
- Value creation in the metaverse – McKinsey
- Marketing in the Metaverse – Justin McLaughlin
- 2022 Year Review & 2023 Year Ahead – Crypto.com
- Metaverse beyond fantas – Arthur D. Little
- State of The Open Metaverse 2021/22 – Outlier Ventures
- The Metaverse: Concepts and Issues for Congress – Congressional Research Service
- Understanding Metaverse’s Core Technologies – The Metaverse Insider
- A guidebook to the metaverse – bitkom
- GCC State of the Metaverse – Chalhoub Group
- Metaverse: A Guide to the Next-Gen Internet – Credit Suisse
- The Metaverse in 2040 – Pew Research Center
- Technology Vision 2022: Meet me in the metaverse – Accenture
- Value creation in the metaverse – McKinsey
- Metaverse Report – The European Union Blockchain Observatory & Forum
- Metaverse Fashion Trends – Roblox
- Metaverse Market Report– Metaverse Insider
- Welcome to the Metaverse – Enders Analysis
- Metaverse – MDPI
- Meta Societies in Metaverse: Meta Economics and Meta Management for Meta Enterprises and Meta Cities – MDPI
- There’s more than one metaverse – De Gruyter
2021
- The Metaverse Web 3.0 Virtual Cloud Economies – Grayscale Research
- Advertising in the Metaverse: Research agenda – Taylor & Francis Online
- Finding Wholes in the Metaverse: Posthuman Mystics as Agents of Evolutionary Contextualization – MDPI
- Computer Vision in the Metaverse – DergiPark