![]() ![]() While extended-reality gaming and social spaces have been in existence for decades, early 2020s tech advances have pushed the development of the metaverse to the forefront, inspiring tens of billions of dollars in investments and prompting predictions that it is “the future of the internet” or “the next internet battleground.” The hope is that advanced, immersive, 3D, online worlds could benefit all aspects of society – education, healthcare, gaming and entertainment, the arts, social and civic life and other activities. Broadly defined, the metaverse is the realm of computer-generated, networked extended-reality spaces (XR, which includes VR, AR and/or MR) in which interactions take place among humans and automated entities, some in gaming or fantasy worlds and some in “mirror worlds” that duplicate real-life environments. The evolution of the metaverse: This canvassing of experts is prompted by emerging debates over the evolution and impact of “the metaverse” by 2040. In order, this page contains: 1) the research question 2) a brief outline of the most common themes found among these experts’ remarks 3) submissions from the respondents to this canvassing who were willing to take credit for their remarks. Click here to read the full, official report with analysis online. This long-scroll page holds no analysis, only the written responses from experts who were willing to take credit for their comments about what the extended-reality and the metaverse might be like by 2040. More than 600 technology innovators, developers, business and policy leaders, researchers and activists responded of these, 367 wrote explanatory comments after responding to this study’s “yes-no” question. Results released June 30, 2022 – Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center invited thousands of experts to share their insights about the likely near future of extended-reality and “the metaverse” in a Winter 2022 canvassing. These experts were asked to respond with their thoughts about the likely evolution of extended-reality tools (AR, MR, VR) and “the metaverse” by 2040. ![]() This page holds hundreds of predictions and opinions expressed by experts who agreed to have their comments credited in a canvassing conducted in February 2022 by Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center and Pew Research Center. ![]()
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