The Metaverse seeks to create a comprehensive, consistent, and persistent connection between physical reality and virtuality, rather than the isolated, transient, and fragmented solutions found today. Technologically, the Metaverse is a ubiquitous platform that allows its users a wide range of activities such as social exchange, trade, entertainment, work, or social participation. The German Informatics Society (GI) has proclaimed the World Wide Metaverse as a Grand Challenge for Computer Science in 2025. This underlines the timeliness and research potential of the Metaverse for Computer Science.

The topic of the research meeting is the World Wide Metaverse and specifically the mutual dependency of the Metaverse with Extended Reality (XR) methodologies. This includes research questions concerning XR-based human-computer interaction and user interface design for the Metaverse, XR technologies for the Metaverse, XR applications in the Metaverse in various application domains (e.g., education, health, collaboration), immersion and presence in the Metaverse, and ethical and social aspects in the Metaverse.

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Wolfgang Broll and Ralf Dörner