The big tech companies are poised to establish early positions of dominance in the emerging XR economy. We offer a novel layer model of the emerging XR economy to support regulatory interventions that target structural sources of power.
News and Research articles on Metaverse
How will the experience of the criminal trial change when the courtroom moves into the metaverse?
Plans for the metaverse are threatening to move us out of market capitalism into a technofeudal order – liberal market governance is no longer a sufficient regulatory response.
Avatarobots, synthetic majorities and the struggle for democratic agency in the metaverse.
As metaverse rhetoric accelerates, the definitions shaping governance policy are severing it from decades of empirical evidence on how virtual communities actually govern themselves.
This introduction explores how the evolution of the metaverse as an additional virtual public sphere challenges existing governance frameworks, and demonstrates the need for a comprehensive multi-disciplinary approach to adapting and re-imagining these frameworks.
A Metaverse from a non-regulated tech environment might cause digital harm to vulnerable communities. The authors argue that addressing policy gaps with social work principles will lead to algorithmic equity in the virtual world.