Roles of Blockchain in the Metaverse: Concepts, Taxonomy, Recent Advances, Enabling Technologies, and Open Research Issues DOI Creative Commons
Muna Elsadig, Manal Abdullah Alohali, Ashraf Osman Ibrahim

et al.

IEEE Access, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12, P. 38410 - 38435

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

The Metaverse platform offers 3D immersive experiences through virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technologies. Blockchain-based has garnered recent interest due to its decentralization, anonymity, other security features. Integrating into promotes the formation of a shared ecosystem provides digital asset tracking, privacy protection, in both physical environments. This paper explores role creating managing platform. It is intended provide helpful reference for researchers practitioners field blockchain-based Metaverse. main topics covered include concept characteristics Metaverse; different use cases, architectures, technologies; as service provider; management; users data; terms roles, technologies, applications, challenges. In addition, advances challenges such scalability, interoperability, edge resource sharing will be discussed. conclude by highlighting open research issues future directions, including improving immersion, security, integration with existing systems.

Language: Английский

Elevating students’ lives through immersive learning experiences in a safe metaverse DOI
Alexandru Căpăţînă, Nina Jane Patel,

Kiril Mitrov

et al.

International Journal of Information Management, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 75, P. 102723 - 102723

Published: Nov. 2, 2023

Language: Английский

Citations

31

The sweet escape to metaverse: Exploring escapism, anxiety, and virtual place attachment DOI Open Access
Debajyoti Pal,

Chonlameth Arpnikanondt

Computers in Human Behavior, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 150, P. 107998 - 107998

Published: Oct. 17, 2023

Language: Английский

Citations

25

Beyond the real world: Metaverse adoption patterns in tourism among Gen Z and Millennials DOI Creative Commons

Víctor Calderón-Fajardo,

Miguel Puig-Cabrera, Ignacio Rodríguez‐Rodríguez

et al.

Current Issues in Tourism, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 21

Published: March 15, 2024

The Metaverse opens a digital realm that offers transformative possibilities for the sector, promising to reshape way tourists explore, experience, and interact with destinations. objective of this research is measure acceptance technology within tourism industry, particular focus on adoption patterns among Gen Z Millennials from given high education institution. methodology consisted PLS-SEM analysis based sample 218 users, Unified Theory Acceptance Use Technology (UTAUT-2 model), which identified as robust model analysing gap in usage. results work reveal tested has predictability power according behavioural intention use tourism. Specifically, facilitating conditions, price value, social influence, visit destination become significant factors. Also, these findings prove evolution could be analysed also test changes concerning other constructs.

Language: Английский

Citations

13

Revealing the Secrets of Metaverse Technology Adoption for Sustainable Performance via Dual-Stage SEM-ANN Analysis DOI
Rana Muhammad Sohail Jafar, Yanming Sun, Ben Niu

et al.

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 18

Published: Oct. 7, 2024

The growing ubiquity of the metaverse among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) offers a game-changing chance for creative business plans improved communication. This adoption reduces consumption physical resources promotes an environmentally responsible model in besides increasing operational efficiency. In accordance with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) UNDP, our study attempts to clarify how might improve sustainable performance SMEs. We developed comprehensive based on diffusion innovation (DOI) technical organizational environmental (TOE) paradigms. For data analysis hybrid approach merging partial least squares-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) artificial neural network (ANN) was implemented. highlights crucial roles relative advantage, value alignment, compatibility, top management after analyzing from 369 respondents across Chinese SMEs that collected both physically online. understanding decision-makers becomes evident as element impacting ensuing (social, economic, environmental) outcomes. valuable insights Additionally, it appropriate suggestions managers SMEs, policy makers, developers.

Language: Английский

Citations

12

Roles of Blockchain in the Metaverse: Concepts, Taxonomy, Recent Advances, Enabling Technologies, and Open Research Issues DOI Creative Commons
Muna Elsadig, Manal Abdullah Alohali, Ashraf Osman Ibrahim

et al.

IEEE Access, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12, P. 38410 - 38435

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

The Metaverse platform offers 3D immersive experiences through virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technologies. Blockchain-based has garnered recent interest due to its decentralization, anonymity, other security features. Integrating into promotes the formation of a shared ecosystem provides digital asset tracking, privacy protection, in both physical environments. This paper explores role creating managing platform. It is intended provide helpful reference for researchers practitioners field blockchain-based Metaverse. main topics covered include concept characteristics Metaverse; different use cases, architectures, technologies; as service provider; management; users data; terms roles, technologies, applications, challenges. In addition, advances challenges such scalability, interoperability, edge resource sharing will be discussed. conclude by highlighting open research issues future directions, including improving immersion, security, integration with existing systems.

Language: Английский

Citations

10