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- Can we escape the metaverse?: Should we?Publication . Carvalho, Fausto de; Morgado, LeonelIn view of the strong market presence and leverage of major corporations involved in this topic, the most straightforward answer to the questions above is “No”. Nevertheless, multiple perspectives should be considered. Thus, along this article we reflect about the concept of “metaverse”, what parts of it exist today, and what is foreseen that makes this concept a much discussed game changer.
- VR2CARE: an age-friendly ecosystem for physical activity, rehabilitation, and social interactionPublication . Qbilat, Malak; Mota, Telma; Carvalho, Fausto de; Mendonça, João; Nitti, Vito; Pannese, Lucia; Gall, Markus; Morgado, Leonel; Van Staalduinen, Willeke; Van Berlo, Ad; Paredes, HugoThe VR2Care project aims to create age-friendly virtual environments fostering interactive technologies for promoting physical activity, rehabilitation, and social interaction. Smart living environments have intelligent interfaces in a single or multi-user context. The VR2Care ecosystem combines virtual reality technologies for supervised exercise with natural interaction techniques, enhancing social virtualization with gamification aspects in the practice of physical activity in a metaverse context. This paper presents the infrastructure and the high-level functional architecture of the VR2Care ecosystem which provides the necessary tools to construct the communication bridges to bring together people sharing common interests, objectives, or ambitions.