When Internet of Things meets Metaverse: Convergence of Physical and Cyber Worlds

• Autor(a) principal: Li, Kai
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Cui, Yingping, Li, Weicai, Lv, Tiejun, Yuan, Xin, Li, Shenghong, Ni, Wei, Simsek, Meryem, Dressler, Falko
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/21265
• topic: Metaverse; Augmented reality; Virtual reality; IoT; Responsible artificial intelligence; Data communications; Mobile edge computing; Digital twins

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) is studied in the context of the Metaverse to provide users immersive cyber-virtual experiences in mixed reality environments. This survey introduces six typical IoT applications in the Metaverse, including collaborative healthcare, education, smart city, entertainment, real estate, and socialization. In the IoT-inspired Metaverse, we also comprehensively survey four pillar technologies that enable augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), namely, responsible artificial intelligence (AI), high-speed data communications, cost-effective mobile edge computing (MEC), and digital twins. According to the physical-world demands, we outline the current industrial efforts and seven key requirements for building the IoT-inspired Metaverse: immersion, variety, economy, civility, interactivity, authenticity, and independence. In addition, this survey describes the open issues in the IoT-inspired Metaverse, which need to be addressed to eventually achieve the convergence of physical and cyber worlds.