第14章サイバー資源の品質とサイバーコンピューティングのガバナンス

The metaverse is a big World Wide Web (WWW) addition. The immersive AR/VR culture the platform intends to create is nothing short of a science fiction movie. The WWW and the Internet have had decades to develop and majorly influence modern life. The challenges that the metaverse presents are the issues of adaptability and interoperability and the usability and ease-of-use areas of the TRM. The metaverse prides itself on being platform-independent. It is meant to be used on all IoT devices and all computer platforms. It is reasonable to assume that interoperability will significantly influence how smoothly the metaverse functions and how stable the environment is. The ability to travel seamlessly between virtual worlds and transition from one system to the next will only be as good as the resources introduced into the system. The amount of memory each computer has and cloud technologies will be challenging. The platform will want seamless integration of 3-D modeling, and the adaptability of this has been previously discussed in the chapter.

A second major concern is that the metaverse is not a traditional medium. It is different than current movies or films produced for large screens. These screens can be as small as a watch face or as large as a city skyscraper. All images in the metaverse are digital. There will be no print media from it. Individuals with disabilities will have to adapt to the new culture, and the level of detail within the models may not meet expectations. The platform will be expensive, and in a world where we struggle to ensure everyone has access to the Internet and WWW, making sure everyone has access to the metaverse is a further stretch. Individuals will hesitate to provide all the information needed to have a metaverse account, and therefore, a lot of unauthentic information will be provided. Alias will be used, and sometimes wrong data will be provided just to gain access.

The rate at which the software is being created for metaverse is a definite area of concern in the TRM. Software engineering skills in web technologies, networking, quality assurance, security, and overall software usability need to be increased. Developing these skills is not the biggest challenge. With the advent of the Internet, the modern personal computer, and all of the IoT devices, where does the innovation come into play with the metaverse? It will be years before the current world and experiences in it are fully brought into the metaverse, but we need people who are going to look beyond the metaverse to see where it is going. If people get immersed in the metaverse, looking past it for newer technology won’t be easy.

Read more about the metaverse (https://openstax.org/r/76metaverse) and how to get started in the immersive culture. This website details how technology will be used to access the metaverse and what steps individuals need to take to move forward with the meta experience.

Industry 5.0 is a new and emerging phase of industrialization that sees humans working alongside technology and AI-powered robots. It also relates to a transformation of industries from production-based to value-based, focusing on social and environmental benefits (i.e., Society 5.0) as well as profit-making. Industry 5.0 aims to enhance workplace processes, increase efficiency, and improve resilience and sustainability. Industry 5.0 relies on various supersociety solutions that typically operate in a hybrid cloud environment. Therefore, they rely on the application foundations set forth by the OWP for web/mobile applications as well as services that are made available by multi-cloud platforms and smart ecosystem solutions. The concept of a supersociety is a technologically rich environment. The individuals who live in these societies choose to immerse themselves in technology. The household would often be completely reliant on the IoT and cloud environment software. As we prepare for super-societies, think about the science fiction movies we have seen where a computer runs and maintains the entire household. While we are not there yet, the members of super-societies work toward this concept. The infusion of cloud-based software applications and the idea of being fully connected to the Internet plays a significant role in utilizing or being a member of a supersociety.