Virtual Crimes of the Virtual World will Affect us in Future

Kaukab Jamal Zuberi Editorial

Abstract

The world keeps on changing. We are continuously
innovating and at times creating new
threats, challenges, and difficulties for
ourselves and the generations to come. Creation
of Metaverse will bring us new ways of
communicating and new worlds to interact and
live in, and probably transform our lives as
internet did in the past.
The term metaverse was first coined in 1992 by
the author Neal Stephenson in his science
fiction novel Snow Crash. Just as the
metaverse was science fiction in 1992, today a
‘real’ metaverse still does not yet exist. The
metaverse is often described as a hypothetical
iteration of the internet as a single, universal
virtual world that presents the user with an
immersive experience that feels ‘real’, usually
using a headset. In its very recent definition, it
can blur the lines between the physical and
virtual world to create a single blended,
extended, or mixed reality. As a result, the
metaverse is now just focused on virtual reality
(VR), but is increasingly being defined in
terms of augmented reality (AR) or extended
or mixed reality (XR).