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Fans who flock to see ABBA Voyage, a digital avatar concert, chase the feeling of a live ABBA performance. They’re finding it, and they’re building meaningful connections, too.
The sudden removal of ‘erotic’ features from the virtual friend app has left lovelorn users high and dry.
People form as strong attachments to gaming universes and can mourn their loss as keenly as physical places.
Young people have lost out from recent developments in the labour market. Could the shift to working in virtual reality be about to turn the tables?
Creating holographic ‘digital twins’ will significantly reduce the stress, cost and logistical issues of touring – and means artists can live forever onstage.
While the metaverse offers new virtual space for classrooms of the future, it is also rife with potential pitfalls, a scholar of philosophy writes.
We need to think about legislation and regulation when it comes to transactions, data protection and user interaction in the metaverse.
That impossibly beautiful model on Instagram might be just that. CGI influencers are already on social media, and Meta’s commercial interest means it shouldn’t be in charge of the ethical guidelines.
For the metaverse to work, people need to own their virtual bodies and possessions and be able to spend money. The same cryptographic technology behind bitcoin will make that possible.
People may think of the metaverse as virtual, but the harm terrorists and extremists could do is very real.
The metaverse is science fiction, but a lot of people in Silicon Valley are working to make this interconnected virtual reality a, well, reality.
Game design engages players through emotional identification and physical participation, and relies heavily on the role of human hands in knowing and navigating the world.
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Associate Professor of Media and Information, Michigan State University
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Affiliated Researcher, Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge
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Instructor, Department of English, University of Winnipeg
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Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Performance, University of the West of Scotland
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Associate Professor in Psychology, University of East Anglia
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Doctoral student in Media and Information, Michigan State University
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Bio-Law, Brunel University London
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Professor of Organizational Psychology, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Assistant Professor of IT Innovation, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing, University of the West of Scotland
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Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University
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PhD Candidate in Internet Studies, Curtin University
