The Metaverse, the Built Environment, and Public Health: Opportunities and Uncertainties

There has been a growing interest in the “metaverse,” and discourse about how this platform may contribute to different fields of science is already beginning to emerge. In this paper, we discuss key opportunities and uncertainties about how a metaverse might contribute to advancing knowledge in the...

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Autores principales: Koohsari, Mohammad Javad, McCormack, Gavin R, Nakaya, Tomoki, Yasunaga, Akitomo, Fuller, Daniel, Nagai, Yukari, Oka, Koichiro
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9972199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36780208
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/43549
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author Koohsari, Mohammad Javad
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Nakaya, Tomoki
Yasunaga, Akitomo
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description There has been a growing interest in the “metaverse,” and discourse about how this platform may contribute to different fields of science is already beginning to emerge. In this paper, we discuss key opportunities and uncertainties about how a metaverse might contribute to advancing knowledge in the interdisciplinary field of the built environment and public health aimed at reducing noncommunicable diseases.
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spelling pubmed-99721992023-03-01 The Metaverse, the Built Environment, and Public Health: Opportunities and Uncertainties Koohsari, Mohammad Javad McCormack, Gavin R Nakaya, Tomoki Yasunaga, Akitomo Fuller, Daniel Nagai, Yukari Oka, Koichiro J Med Internet Res Viewpoint There has been a growing interest in the “metaverse,” and discourse about how this platform may contribute to different fields of science is already beginning to emerge. In this paper, we discuss key opportunities and uncertainties about how a metaverse might contribute to advancing knowledge in the interdisciplinary field of the built environment and public health aimed at reducing noncommunicable diseases. JMIR Publications 2023-02-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9972199/ /pubmed/36780208 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/43549 Text en ©Mohammad Javad Koohsari, Gavin R McCormack, Tomoki Nakaya, Akitomo Yasunaga, Daniel Fuller, Yukari Nagai, Koichiro Oka. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (https://www.jmir.org), 13.02.2023. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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The Metaverse, the Built Environment, and Public Health: Opportunities and Uncertainties
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