Defining the Metaverse: A Systematic Literature Review

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dc.contributor.authorRitterbusch, Georg David
dc.contributor.authorTeichmann, Malte
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-19T15:41:56Z
dc.date.available2023-09-19T15:41:56Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe 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.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported in part by the Research Project Age-Appropriate, Process-Oriented and Interactive Vocational Training in SMEs (API-KMU) which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)] under Grant 02L19A010, in part by the European Social Fund for Germany (ESF), in part by the BMBF-Project German Internet Institute under Grant 16DII137, and in part by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Project number 491466077.
dc.identifier.citationRitterbusch, G., & Teichmann, M. (2023). Defining the Metaverse: A Systematic Literature Review. IEEE Access, 11, 12368–12377. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3241809
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1109/access.2023.3241809
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/363
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectMetaverse
dc.subjectvirtual reality
dc.subjectaugmented reality
dc.subjectimmersion
dc.subjectvirtual economy
dc.subjectblockchain
dc.titleDefining the Metaverse: A Systematic Literature Review
dc.typeReviewArticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.booktitleIEEE Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend12377
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart12368
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume11
local.researchgroupBildung für die digitale Welt
local.researchtopicOrganisation von Wissen
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