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Metaverse for Social Good: A University Campus Prototype

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MM '21: Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

Pages 153 - 161

https://doi.org/10.1145/3474085.3479238

Published: 17 October 2021 Publication History

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In recent years, the metaverse has attracted enormous attention from around the world with the development of related technologies. The expected metaverse should be a realistic society with more direct and physical interactions, while the concepts of race, gender, and even physical disability would be weakened, which would be highly beneficial for society. However, the development of metaverse is still in its infancy, with great potential for improvement. Regarding metaverse's huge potential, industry has already come forward with advance preparation, accompanied by feverish investment, but there are few discussions about metaverse in academia to scientifically guide its development. In this paper, we highlight the representative applications for social good. Then we propose a three-layer metaverse architecture from a macro perspective, containing infrastructure, interaction, and ecosystem. Moreover, we journey toward both a historical and novel metaverse with a detailed timeline and table of specific attributes. Lastly, we illustrate our implemented blockchain-driven metaverse prototype of a university campus and discuss the prototype design and insights.

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Metaverse for Social Good: A University Campus Prototype
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing systems and tools
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interactive systems and tools
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures

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MM '21: Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Multimedia

October 2021

5796 pages

ISBN:9781450386517

DOI:10.1145/3474085

General Chairs:
Heng Tao Shen
University of Electronic Science&Technology of China, China
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Yueting Zhuang
Zhejiang University, China
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John R. Smith
IBM, USA
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Yang Yang
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
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Pablo Cesar
CWI&TU Delft, The Netherlands
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Florian Metze
FACEBOOK, Inc., USA
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University of Texas at Dallas, USA

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