 A prospective vision of the evolution of immersive technologies: Towards a definition of metaverseFrederick Benaben, Aurélie Congès and Audrey Fertier Technovation, 2025, vol. 140, issue C Abstract: This article focuses on identifying and describing the current status of immersive technologies, to project them, from this initial point, towards the near future, by considering the evolutionary trajectory of these technologies based on mechanisms of progress and innovation. The ambition of this study is then on the one hand to describe a next point of arrival for these technologies, but above all to confront it with the current vision of the concept of the metaverse, and even to extract a more completed and structured vision. The conclusions of the article underline the compatibility between the potential evolution of present immersive technologies and the current vision of the concept of metaverse. Moreover, a metaverse framework is presented to consolidate and structure this concept. Finally, the framework is broken down into the properties inherent to the nature of a metaverse and evaluated through two real cases relating to crisis management training and immersive teaching. Keywords: Metaverse; Virtual reality; Augmented reality; Mixed reality; Immersive technologies; Framework; Innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:techno:v:140:y:2025:i:c:s0166497224002049 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103154 Access Statistics for this article Technovation is currently edited by Jonathan Linton More articles in Technovation from Elsevier |
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