Splendid isolation: ‘Philosopher’s islands’ and the reimagination of space

Unlike previous studies on the Metaverse based on Second Life, the current Metaverse is based on the social value of Generation Z that online and offline selves are not different. With the technological development of deep learning-based high-precision recognition models and natural generation models, Metaverse is being strengthened with various factors, from mobile-based always-on access to connectivity with reality using virtual currency. The integration of enhanced social activities and neural-net methods requires a new definition of Metaverse suitable for the present, different from the previous Metaverse. This paper divides the concepts and essential techniques necessary for realizing the Metaverse into three components (i.e., hardware, software, and contents) and three approaches (i.e., user interaction, implementation, and application) rather than marketing or hardware approach to conduct a comprehensive analysis. Furthermore, we describe essential methods based on three components and techniques to Metaverse's representative Ready Player One, Roblox, and Facebook research in the domain of films, games, and studies. Finally, we summarize the limitations and directions for implementing the immersive Metaverse as social influences, constraints, and open challenges.

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“…Cameron [25] Utopian and dystopian futures, where people live more in virtual worlds than in reality…”

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A Metaverse: Taxonomy, Components, Applications, and Open Challenges

2022

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“…It seems that the ascendency of resilience, climate change and other environmental discourses flies in the face of the "relational turn" that is prevalent in both natural and social sciences today and from which island studies itself is not exempt. Early debates concerning islandness have proposed and struggled with what appear today as rather facile and neat dichotomiesroots and routes; exotopias and endotopias; open and closed; stranded and mobile; peripheral and central; isolated and connected (DeLoughrey, 2007;Cameron, 2012;Hay, 2006;Sheller, 2013). However, even more powerfully significant towards the critical understanding of island life may be the relationalities and contingencies implicit in looking at flows, fluidities, relations and movements (Stratford et al, 2011).…”

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Seizing history: development and non-climate change in Small Island Developing States

Baldacchino

2017

IJCCSM

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Purpose This paper offers a critical review of climate change related initiatives in small island states, including Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which can end up as ontological traps: fuelled and supported by external donor agencies, thwarting out-migration and shifting scarce and finite resources away from other, shorter-term and locally spawned development trajectories and objectives. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on a selective literature review. It clusters important themes found in published research and policy documents. Findings The results identify a burgeoning critical voice in regards to resilience and its legitimation of climate change driven projects in SIDS. This paper recommends a more nuanced approach which also privileges migration. Originality/value This paper provided a critical overview and synthesis of the immobility implicit in much climate change related work, through the critical lens of island studies and post-colonial studies.

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“…It represented an interconnected network of virtual spaces aimed to amplify an individual world [10]. Cameron [11] conceptualises metaspace as a "bigger outside" that lies beyond the space where humanity operates now. According to them, it may be presented by a utopia (i.e., a fictional unrealistically perfect space), endotopia (i.e., a realistically looking standardised representation of any space), and xenotopia or Metaverse (i.e., a space beyond the current human spatiality).…”

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Metaverse and Tourism: From a New Niche to a Transformation

Volchek

Brysch

2023

Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2023

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Metaverse is named among the technologies that are predicted to transform everyday life. The proliferation of such technologies as the Internet and smartphones has triggered major transformations in the tourism industry. This paper conceptualises the phenomenon of Metaverse towards the phenomenon of tourism. It applies a semi-systematic literature review methodology to identify existing alignment between the phenomena. The paper concludes that there is a conceptual alignment between the critical dimensions of the Metaverse and tourism. Tourism should be ready for the reciprocal effects of metaverse development on tourism and vice versa, from new opportunities to enhance tourist experience to a possible dissolution of the contemporary understanding of tourism.

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Splendid isolation: ‘Philosopher’s islands’ and the reimagination of space

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A Metaverse: Taxonomy, Components, Applications, and Open Challenges

A Metaverse: Taxonomy, Components, Applications, and Open Challenges

Seizing history: development and non-climate change in Small Island Developing States

Metaverse and Tourism: From a New Niche to a Transformation

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