Chapter 18Application of Metaverse in the Automobile Industry

Bhavika Saraswat, Jai Kothari, Geddam Annirudh and Sanjeev Ganguly

Woxsen University, Hyderabad, Telangana

DOI: 10.4324/b23404-18

18.1 Introduction

The word “metaverse” refers to a fully immersive and interactive virtual environment where users (individual's or group's) can communicate with each other and interact with virtual items in real time [1, 2]. However, the meaning of the metaverse changes with different people's perspective and reasoning. The metaverse is a virtual environment that functions like the real world and it allows the users to interact with each other. The concept of the metaverse was first coined in the book Snow Crash in 1992 by N. Stephenson [3].

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