Metaverse - A Bright Future? Social Interactions in a World of Isolation

Explore the potential future of extended reality and social interactions in a world of isolation through this comprehensive IEEE VR 2022 workshop. Delve into the concept of the Metaverse, its challenges, and its impact on everyday life. Examine communication trends, empathy computing, brain synchronization, and ethical issues surrounding neural rights and bodily autonomy. Participate in lectures, Q&A sessions, a VR environment experiment, and thematic discussions to gain insights into this complex ecosystem. Investigate the definition of the Metaverse, its non-existence paradox, and the importance of presence and sensory experiences in virtual worlds.

Introduction
Going beyond the Metaverse
Communication trends
Empathy computing
Brain synchronization
Empathic existence
Wrap up
Metaverse definition
Challenges
Ethical issues
Neural rights
covert virtual objects
bodily autonomy
empathy
conclusions
references
a new complex ecosystem
Metaverse does not exist
Why Metaverse
Presence
Five senses