Metaverse: Threat or Opportunity for Our Social World? In understanding Metaverse on sociological context

Abstract

Metaverse technology is a new technology that will focus on working, studying and entertainment in the future. In sociology, the existence of this technology will change the culture of society. The connection to social reality will be lost in the metaverse. This article aims to discuss in detail how the reality of technology metaverse in social life. This article will be discussed using the sociological descriptive analysis method in depth using various theories in the field of sociology. In this paper, will focus more on the discussion of how metaverse technology can affect human social life, what impact this technology has on humans, what challenges this technology faces, and the analysis of this technology from the sociological context. Although still in the design stage, the impact of this new technology seems to be obvious. In sociology, the existence of this metaverse technology will try to change the culture of society such as the culture of interacting, working to seeking entertainment. Although still in the design phase, the impact of this new technology seems to be real.

Keywords

• Metaverse
• Future of metaverse
• pros and cons of metaverse
• metaverse on sociological
• metaverse and social life

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