Metaverse - Death to Offline Communication or Empowerment of Interaction?
Irina Ilyina, Ekaterina A. Eltikova, Ksenia A. Uvarova, Svetlana D. Chelysheva
Abstract
The article is dedicated to the phenomenon of metaverse which is the next step in the modern virtual environment. The topic of creating metaverses is discussed a lot nowadays due to the fact that several world-wide corporations expressed their interest in developing the mentioned spaces. The elaboration of metaverses will provide people access to online interaction which practically does not differ from the real-life experience. This brings up a problem of metaverses’ development effect on the process of communication and its effectiveness. Besides, it is very important to mention the main perspectives of integrating and applying the metaverse in the communication sphere. Metaverses could become a factor that will cause an adverse effect on face-to-face communication replacing it with online experience. Besides, they could catalyze the process of integration between online and offline dimensions and their further co-development starting a new era in communications. It is being reviewed and analyzed by authors.