Metaverse applications in smart cities: Enabling technologies, opportunities, challenges, and future directions

Recent years have witnessed a global trend toward the metaverse. The metaverse is a collection of immersive and interconnected digital spaces in which users can interact through computer-generated environments. As smart cities aim to enhance the experiences of their citizens by improving infrastructure, modernizing government services, increasing accessibility, accelerating economic growth, and promoting sustainability, the metaverse has the potential to significantly revolutionize, reshape, and transform smart cities. In this paper, we discuss how leveraging the metaverse for smart cities can stimulate innovations and bring about major improvements. We discuss the key enabling technologies for the metaverse,…

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  Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research

  Award: RCII-2019-002