The metaverse digital environments: a scoping review of the challenges, privacy and security issues.

IF 2.4 Q3 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS Frontiers in Big Data Pub Date : 2023-11-23 eCollection Date: 2023-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fdata.2023.1301812
Muhammad Tukur, Jens Schneider, Mowafa Househ, Ahmed Haruna Dokoro, Usman Idris Ismail, Muhammad Dawaki, Marco Agus
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The concept of the "metaverse" has garnered significant attention recently, positioned as the "next frontier" of the internet. This emerging digital realm carries substantial economic and financial implications for both IT and non-IT industries. However, the integration and evolution of these virtual universes bring forth a multitude of intricate issues and quandaries that demand resolution. Within this research endeavor, our objective was to delve into and appraise the array of challenges, privacy concerns, and security issues that have come to light during the development of metaverse virtual environments in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a meticulous review and analysis of literature spanning from January 2020 to December 2022, we have meticulously identified and scrutinized 29 distinct challenges, along with 12 policy, privacy, and security matters intertwined with the metaverse. Among the challenges we unearthed, the foremost were concerns pertaining to the costs associated with hardware and software, implementation complexities, digital disparities, and the ethical and moral quandaries surrounding socio-control, collectively cited by 43%, 40%, and 33% of the surveyed articles, respectively. Turning our focus to policy, privacy, and security issues, the top three concerns that emerged from our investigation encompassed the formulation of metaverse rules and principles, the encroachment of privacy threats within the metaverse, and the looming challenges concerning data management, all mentioned in 43%, 40%, and 33% of the examined literature. In summation, the development of virtual environments within the metaverse is a multifaceted and dynamically evolving domain, offering both opportunities and hurdles for researchers and practitioners alike. It is our aspiration that the insights, challenges, and recommendations articulated in this report will catalyze extensive dialogues among industry stakeholders, governmental bodies, and other interested parties concerning the metaverse's destiny and the world they aim to construct or bequeath to future generations.

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元宇宙数字环境:对挑战、隐私和安全问题的范围审查。
最近,"元宇宙"(metaverse)的概念备受关注,被定位为互联网的 "下一个前沿"。这一新兴的数字领域对 IT 和非 IT 行业都具有重大的经济和财务影响。然而,这些虚拟宇宙的整合和演化带来了许多错综复杂的问题和难题,亟待解决。在这项研究工作中,我们的目标是深入探讨和评估 COVID-19 大流行后,在开发元宇宙虚拟环境过程中出现的一系列挑战、隐私问题和安全问题。通过对 2020 年 1 月至 2022 年 12 月期间的文献进行细致的审查和分析,我们细致地确定并审查了 29 个不同的挑战,以及与元宇宙交织在一起的 12 个政策、隐私和安全问题。在我们发现的挑战中,最主要的是与硬件和软件相关的成本、实施的复杂性、数字差异以及与社会控制相关的伦理道德问题,分别有 43%、40% 和 33% 的调查文章提到了这些问题。我们将重点转向政策、隐私和安全问题,调查中出现的前三大问题包括制定元宇宙规则和原则、元宇宙中隐私威胁的侵蚀以及数据管理方面迫在眉睫的挑战,这些问题分别在43%、40%和33%的被调查文献中被提及。总之,在元宇宙中开发虚拟环境是一个多层面、动态发展的领域,为研究人员和从业人员提供了机遇,也设置了障碍。我们希望本报告中阐述的见解、挑战和建议能够促进行业利益相关者、政府机构和其他有关各方就元宇宙的命运以及他们旨在构建或留给后代的世界展开广泛对话。
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