Metaverse and Extended Universe (XV): Opportunities and Challenges for Consumer Technologies

Abdulmotaleb El-Saddik, Fabrizio Lamberti, Steve Mann, Filippo Gabriele Pratticò, Ruck Thawonmas, Yu Yuan

Abstract: Extended meta/uni/Verse (XV), also known as “Mersivity,” “Vironmentalism,” “Social XR,” “Physical metaverse,” etc., combines eXtended Reality (XR), eXtended Intelligence (XI), eXtended Being (XB), including Digital Twin, eXtended Economy (XE), and eXtended Society (XS) into a vision that covers a generally agreed metaverse scope while extending the impacts to include physical and social implications. XV is the next evolution at the nexus of three axes: the 1) physical; 2) virtual; and 3) social worlds.