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From Online Games to “Metaverse”: The Expanding Impact of Virtual Reality in Daily Life

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Due to its wider and wider range of applications, virtual reality technology plays a very important role in expanding the field of human existence. From traditional video games to online games to “Metaverse”, human beings have made virtual reality more refined and comprehensive. Technical entertainment based on virtual reality has also caused social problems such as addictive dependence and escapism. “Metaverse”, or the so-called “virtual reality Internet”, as a representative of the next generation of Internet, contains both risks and opportunities.

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Jian, S., Chen, X., Yan, J. (2022). From Online Games to “Metaverse”: The Expanding Impact of Virtual Reality in Daily Life. In: Rauterberg, M. (eds) Culture and Computing. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13324. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05434-1_3

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