MetaOmniCity aims to create immersive urban metaverse cyberspaces using Smart City Digital Twins, blending real and virtual experiences, enhancing Quality of Life and promoting immersive globalization.

MetaOmniCity: Toward Immersive Urban Metaverse Cyberspaces Using Smart City Digital Twins

The Metaverse has the potential to redefine urban design and service provision, but ethical, human, social, and cultural concerns remain.

The Metaverse as a Virtual Form of Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges for Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability in Urban Futures

Adopting the metaverse concept in smart cities requires careful planning and integration of various technologies, such as internet, VR, AR, IoT, AI, and blockchain.

Metaverse Fundamental Technologies for Smart City: A Literature Review

The Metaverse is socially constructed and value-laden, requiring public participation and democratic control to avoid ethical and social concerns.

The Social Shaping of the Metaverse as an Alternative to the Imaginaries of Data-Driven Smart Cities: A Study in Science, Technology, and Society

The Metaverse, a virtual city based on AI, IoT, Big Data, and XR technologies, may lead to undemocratic and unethical post-pandemic urban governance due to its reliance on surveillance capitalism.

The Metaverse as a Virtual Form of Data-Driven Smart Urbanism: On Post-Pandemic Governance through the Prism of the Logic of Surveillance Capitalism

The Metaverse can revolutionize urban design and public services, potentially improving environmental, economic, and social sustainability, but it also raises ethical, human, and social concerns.

Platformization and the Metaverse: Opportunities and Challenges for Urban Sustainability and Economic Development

This study explores the potential applications and challenges of integrating XR technologies and AIoT in the Internet of City Things, highlighting synergistic opportunities for urban development.

Harnessing the Potential of the Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence for the Internet of City Things: Cost-Effective XReality and Synergistic AIoT Technologies

The extended metaverse platform is more flexible and user-friendly, enhancing user satisfaction and tourism experiences in smart destinations.

Extensible Metaverse Implication for a Smart Tourism City

Security and privacy concerns, as well as digital addiction, are the most significant barriers to metaverse applications in smart cities.

Analyzing Barriers to Metaverse Application In Smart Cities: A DEMATEL-Based Approach

Metaverse integration in smart cities faces privacy and security challenges, but blockchain technologies can enhance content sharing and social good applications.

Metaverse Communications, Networking, Security, and Applications: Research Issues, State-of-the-Art, and Future Directions

Digital data is crucial for developing smart cities, but establishing a common data exchange space is crucial for successful implementation.

Metaverse in the development of “smart cities”: Problems of data management

The metaverse can help model social and political tension in large cities, potentially reducing tension and improving citizens' lives.

Using Metaverse Technology to Simulate Threats of Social and Political Tension in Major Cities

Digital twins and metaverse can improve city operation efficiency and governance by integrating real and virtual worlds, promoting Smart City construction.

Impact of Digital Twins and Metaverse on Cities: History, Current Situation, and Application Perspectives

AI plays a crucial role in the metaverse, enhancing immersive experiences and humanlike intelligence in virtual agents, with potential applications in healthcare, manufacturing, smart cities, and gaming.

Artificial Intelligence for the Metaverse: A Survey

Smart city construction based on meta universe technology can create a new urban model by using physical data from sensors, building information models, and digital infrastructure.

Research on Smart City Construction Based on Metauniverse

This paper creates a smart education ecosystem using six core technologies, accelerating the organic integration of metaverse and smart education, and providing a theoretical basis for future education applications.

Building a Smart Education Ecosystem from a Metaverse Perspective

Introducing a Metaverse for NEOM city can provide a digital perspective of the future, benefiting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, engineers, developers, and people worldwide, while also generating revenue through land pre-selling and remote services.

What are the benefits and opportunities of launching a Metaverse for NEOM city?

Metaverse security and privacy challenges require a comprehensive survey to address scalability, interoperability, and privacy concerns, while addressing future research directions.

A Survey on Metaverse: Fundamentals, Security, and Privacy

Integrating digital twin with advanced technologies like 6G communication, blockchain, and AI can enable continuous end-to-end metaverse services.

Integrating Digital Twin and Advanced Intelligent Technologies to Realize the Metaverse

The metaverse, a fusion between virtual and physical worlds, is a transformative technology that can modify people's perception of reality, requiring a humane, integrated, and multidisciplinary approach to understand its potential.

What the Metaverse Is (Really) and Why We Need to Know About It

Will the Metaverse be a type of Smart City?

Some studies suggest the Metaverse could be a type of Smart City by integrating technologies like AI, IoT, VR, and AR to enhance urban experiences and services, while other studies highlight significant ethical, social, and privacy concerns that need to be addressed.