Harnessing the Potential of the Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence for the Internet of City Things: Cost-Effective XReality and Synergistic AIoT Technologies

Bibri, Simon Elias; Jagatheesaperumal, Senthil Kumar

doi:10.3390/smartcities6050109

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“… High Implementation Costs: The metaverse application requires substantial investments in hardware and software infrastructure, such as high-performance computing devices, high-speed network transmission, large-capacity storage, and interactive devices. Additionally, it is necessary to develop compatible software systems and applications, which also demand highly skilled technical personnel, resulting in high implementation costs ( 39 ). For many small and medium-sized enterprises, the threshold for fully implementing metaverse technology is high, especially the heavy economic burden.…”

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The application of metaverse in occupational health

Tang,

Liang,

Zhan

2024

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundThe metaverse, as a new digital interactive platform, is garnering significant attention and exploration across industries due to technological advancements and societal digital transformation. In occupational health, there is immense potential for leveraging the metaverse to enhance work environments and occupational health management. It offers companies more efficient and intelligent solutions for occupational health management while providing employees with safer and more comfortable work environments.MethodsA comprehensive literature search was conducted using PubMed, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and Google Scholar databases to identify relevant studies published between January 2015 and March 2024. The search terms included “metaverse,” “virtual reality,” “occupational health,” “workplace safety,” “job training,” and “telemedicine.” The selected articles were analyzed, and key findings were summarized narratively.ResultsThe review summarizes the broad application prospects of metaverse technology in immersive training, occupational risk identification and assessment, and occupational disease monitoring and diagnosis. However, applying the metaverse in occupational health also faces challenges such as inadequate technical standards, data privacy issues, human health hazards, high costs, personnel training, and lagging regulations.ConclusionMetaverse offers new possibilities for addressing the numerous challenges faced in occupational health and has broad application prospects. In the future, collaborative efforts from multiple stakeholders will be necessary to promote the sustainable development of metaverse technology in occupational health and better protect workers’ occupational health.

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The application of metaverse in occupational health

Tang,

Liang,

Zhan

2024

Front. Public Health

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“…When combined with the Metaverse, NLP's enormous data-processing, and analysis capabilities enable previously unheard of levels of customization in experiences and services. Every virtual encounter may now be customized to meet the interests and requirements of the individual, from personalized media consumption and purchasing to personalized exercise and health guidance [112]. Digital encounters are becoming more meaningful and valuable to our daily lives, in addition to being more fun, owing to this level of customization.…”

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Natural Language Processing Influence on Digital Socialization and Linguistic Interactions in the Integration of the Metaverse in Regular Social Life

Sumon,

Uddin,

Akter

et al. 2024

Electronics

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The Metaverse and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies have combined to fundamentally change the nature of digital sociability. Our understanding of social interaction needs to be reevaluated as the Metaverse’s influence spreads into more areas of daily life, such as AI-driven gaming, interactive training companions, museum exhibits, personalized fitness coaching, virtual mental health assistance, language translation services, virtual tour guiding, and virtual conferencing. This study analyzes how NLP is changing social relationships in these Metaverse applications. We examine how NLP algorithms influence societal norms, individual behaviors, interpersonal connections, and improve the user experience using a multi-method approach incorporating user surveys and sentiment analysis. Our study’s findings show how NLP can enhance interactive experiences while also pointing out related issues like potential bias and moral problems. Our study provides a foundational analysis, shedding light on the challenges of negotiating a social environment in the Metaverse that is molded by cutting-edge NLP. It offers stakeholders in academia and public policy essential assistance that helps them understand and manage the complex ramifications of this changing socio-technological paradigm.

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“…The emergence of the metaverse in tourism cities will strengthen communication and digital transactions between cities, companies and users. Hence, Bibri & Jagatheesaperumal (2023) noted that combining virtual and physical realities through the metaverse will bring new technological innovations for the future benefit of tourism cities and their residents, as well as the tourism and travel sectors.…”

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Metaverse cannot be an extra marketing immersive tool to increase sales in tourism cities

Florido-Benítez

2024

IJTC

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the metaverse platform in a social context to better understand the future of this tool in tourism cities and how this can help to improve the well-being of residents in both digital and physical scenarios. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the current and probable developments in the metaverse, and its use in tourism cities and companies have been investigated. Moreover, this study develops, collects and examines the main metaverse definitions by expert authors and organizations as a methodology to ensure the transparency and credibility of the metaverse analysis. Findings Findings suggest that the fusion of the metaverse and tourism cities must create residents’ services and experiences in the new MetaTourPolis to help interact and connect citizens with the city’s institutions and companies, as well as make tourism cities more attractive, innovative, environmentally friendly and healthier places to live. Metaverse will bring new changes for residents and tourists, in fact, this virtual platform is already changing and improving the residents’ quality of life and people with disabilities in tourism cities. For instance, the metaverse platform has been implemented in Seoul, Santa Monica and Dubai MetaTourPolis to interact with their residents, including people with disabilities, to resolve bureaucratic and administrative problems, avoiding this group and the rest of the residents travelling by bus or car to the city’s institutions. In addition, several metaverse applications based on softbot tutors or metaverse virtual social centres have been developed to improve blind and impaired people, and elderly people’ quality of life, respectively. Originality/value A new concept called “MetaTourPolis” has been included to stage the relationship between tourism cities and the metaverse platform, where the fusion of metaverse and the new tourism polis of the 21st century will be at the service of citizens, tourists and companies, to create more sustainable, efficient, quantitative and environmental tourism cities.

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Harnessing the Potential of the Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence for the Internet of City Things: Cost-Effective XReality and Synergistic AIoT Technologies

Cited by 40 publications

References 96 publications

The application of metaverse in occupational health

The application of metaverse in occupational health

Natural Language Processing Influence on Digital Socialization and Linguistic Interactions in the Integration of the Metaverse in Regular Social Life

Metaverse cannot be an extra marketing immersive tool to increase sales in tourism cities

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