Socializing in the Metaverse: The Innovation and Challenge of Interpersonal Communication

Abstract

2021 is called the first year of the "metaverse", and the "metaverse" has quickly become a hot topic of discussion and has attracted the attention of the academic community. Social is one of the main innovation channels of the metaverse. However, what kind of future, what kind of challenges, and what kind of social impacts will social interaction in the metaverse form need to be considered. In order to provide thinking for social development under the metaverse, this research analyzes the concept of the metaverse, the era background and existing cases of social interaction in the metaverse. The study found that social interaction is also entering the fourth era-metaverse social interaction, which is gradually revealed to people with the development of Internet technology. But metaverse social interaction still faces technical and ethical challenges, and there is still a long way to go to achieve a true metaverse.