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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga +1 more
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Using 2D photography as a 3D constructional tool within the second life environment [PDF]
, 2009 As digital photography became more accepted, influential and widespread, artists / designers started to take advantage of photos to create novel 2D / 3D entities.
Germen, Murat
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Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence as Web 4.0: The Next Generation of the Internet
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study utilizes systems thinking to explore and entwine an evolving metaverse scholarship to a relatively underexplored phenomenon of Web 4.0. We adopt a soft systems thinking framework to guide the interpretation of complex and evolving metaverse scholarship, using bibliometric mapping of 5587 publications sourced from Scopus.
Anton Klarin +3 more
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Metaverse-Retail Service Quality: A Future Framework for Retail Service Quality in the 3D Internet [PDF]
, 2013 This paper argues that service quality in retailing in 3D Collaborative Virtual Environments (aka Metaverses) is distinct from service quality in the more familiar 2D mainly menu-driven web internet store (e-SQ).
Bitner M. J. +23 more
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Maximizing the Economic, Environmental, and Social Impact of the Metaverse
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The metaverse is a transformative digital ecosystem with the potential to redefine economic, environmental, and social systems. This qualitative study examines how the metaverse and its enabling technologies—such as AR/VR, blockchain, and AI—might evolve to influence sustainability. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with global experts and
Alessandro Lanteri +2 more
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The Future of the Internet III [PDF]
, 2008 Presents survey results on technology experts' predictions on the Internet's social, political, and economic impact as of 2020, including its effects on integrity and tolerance, intellectual property law, and the division between personal and work ...
Janna Quitney Anderson, Lee Rainie
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Metaverse search system: Architecture, challenges, and potential applications
ICT ExpressLike numerous new websites created globally every day on the web, new spaces are constantly produced in the metaverse and interconnected to each other through the Internet.
Soorim Yang, Hyeong-jun Joo, Jaeho Kim
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Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The last few years have seen a reemergence in the awareness of virtual worlds among practitioners and academics. Driven by tech giants' investments, the Metaverse is considered by some as an unprecedented revolutionary technology with the potential to unlock an entire gamut of new unexplored opportunities for both companies and individuals ...
Giulio Ferrigno +2 more
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Digital Urban - The Visual City [PDF]
, 2007 Nothing in the city is experienced by itself for a city’s perspicacity is the sum of its surroundings. To paraphrase Lynch (1960), at every instant, there is more than we can see and hear.
Hudson-Smith, A
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Market‐Driving Capability: An Empirical Study on Antecedents and Consequences
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract What enables market‐driving behaviour, and is it a worthwhile business strategy? This fundamental question intrigues both managers in firms and researchers in marketing and strategic management, yet surprisingly, it remains underexplored. To this end, we assess the antecedents and consequences of market‐driving capability.
Owais Khan +2 more
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