@inproceedings{28919b9a2efd4a5686f005a14d7a33cb,
title = "Challenges in Metaverse Research: An Internet of Things Perspective",
abstract = "The paper describes research challenges arising from the increasing interest in supporting more immersive and more intelligent environments that enable the next generation of seamless human and physical interactions. These environments span the gamut from augmented-physical to virtual, and are referred to hereafter as the Metaverse. We focus on challenges that constitute a natural extension of Internet of Things (IoT) research. Among the key applications of IoT has always been the integration of physical and cyber environments to endow {"}things{"}with a better contextual understanding of their surroundings, and endow human users with more seamless means of perception and control, ranging from smart home automation to industrial applications. This IoT vision was based on the premise that the number of physical {"}things{"}on the Internet will soon significantly outpace humans. Intelligent IoT further envisions a proliferation of edge intelligence with which humans will interact. The paper elaborates the research challenges that extrapolate the above trajectory.",
keywords = "AI, Cyber-Physical Systems, IoT, Machine Learning, Metaverse",
author = "Tarek Abdelzaher and Matthew Caesar and Charith Mendis and Klara Nahrstedt and Mani Srivastava and Minlan Yu",
note = "ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work is supported in part by ARL Cooperative Agreement W911NF-17-2-0196, NSF grants 20-38817, 18-35834, 21-06592, and 22-11301, IBM-IIDAI institute, and Boeing Inc. It is also supported in part by ACE, one of the seven centers in JUMP 2.0, a Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) program sponsored by DARPA.; 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom 2023 ; Conference date: 26-06-2023 Through 28-06-2023",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1109/MetaCom57706.2023.00042",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom 2023",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "161--170",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications, MetaCom 2023",
address = "United States",
}