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METAVERSE [5 records]

Record 1 2025-04-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
  • Criminology
  • Security
CONT

Metacrimes are those crimes occurring in the metaverse. They challenge our definitions of crimes in the digital realm, because they do not fit into existing frameworks of reporting and investigating crime.

OBS

[Both metacrime and conventional cybercrime] involve different kinds of illegal activities happening online or in virtual spaces. [However,] a number of metacrime features ... do not overlap with conventional cybercrime. ... One such feature is immersive VR [virtual reality] attacks, which are made to feel real through immersion and spatial presence.

Key term(s)
  • meta-crime
  • meta-verse crime

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)
  • Criminologie
  • Sécurité
OBS

[Le] caractère éphémère des interactions entre les avatars rendra plus difficile le recueil de preuves en cas de commission de métacrimes [...]

Key term(s)
  • méta-crime

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
  • Collaboration with WIPO
CONT

A metaverse is a three-dimensional virtual world(VW) where people interact with each other and their environment, using the metaphor of the real world but without its physical limitations.

OBS

metaverse : data validated by Canadian subject-field experts from École Polytechnique de Montréal, MasterpieceVR and McGill University.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)
  • Collaboration avec l'OMPI
CONT

Un métavers est un univers virtuel totalement immersif, c'est-à-dire tridimensionnel et interactif en temps réel.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Simulación (Sistemas cibernéticos)
  • Colaboración con la OMPI
CONT

El metaverso es un entorno inmersivo, tridimensional, virtual y además multiusuario en línea, [...] el cual permite a las personas relacionarse entre sí, social y económicamente, independientemente de su localización, utilizando herramientas computacionales como agentes personificados y simulación.

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Record 3 2024-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Motorized Sports
  • Aeroindustry
OBS

Drone Racing League(DRL) is the world's premier, professional drone racing property. The best drone pilots in the world fly in the league... Combining groundbreaking technology and immersive drone racing, DRL is creating a new era of sports that brings high-speed competition IRL [in real life], in virtual simulation and in the metaverse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Sports motorisés
  • Constructions aéronautiques

Spanish

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Record 4 2022-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Real Estate
  • Informatics
DEF

Virtual land that can be bought and sold in the metaverse by using non-fungible tokens.

CONT

Made up of 259 units or "parcels" of land, the plot of virtual real estate represents 66,304 virtual square metres (16 virtual acres), making it also the biggest Decentraland land purchase in terms of virtual size.

CONT

There is no "title" involved in the acquisition of virtual real property. Moreover, there are no virtual world equivalents to recording systems or title assurance—items traditionally associated with real property acquisition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immobilier
  • Informatique
CONT

La frénésie du NFT [jeton non fongible] a renforcé l'intérêt pour les environnements en ligne basés sur la blockchain. Les plus connus sont Decentraland, Cryptovoxels, Somnium Space et The Sandbox, où les prix des biens immobiliers virtuels atteignent des sommets. Decentraland a vu plus de 50 millions de dollars de ventes totales, y compris des terrains, des avatars, des noms d'utilisateur et des objets à porter comme des tenues virtuelles.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Bienes raíces
  • Informática
CONT

En junio de 2021 Republic Realm completó la adquisición más grande en bienes raíces virtuales al adquirir 259 parcelas por una cantidad de 913.228 dólares porque tiene el fuerte compromiso para desarrollar el metaverso.

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Record 5 1997-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
  • Electronic Music
CONT

What you need in order to access on-line music distribution services : To get to the Internet Underground Music Archive(IUMA) RockNet, Kaleidospace and metaverse. com, you’ll be best off with full Internet access, and a sound card that gives your computer audio-capability, unless you own a Macintosh, which already has sound capacity built in. If you have full Internet access, connect to the World Wide Web(WWW). The quickest way to each service is to use your favorite WWW browser. With the more-powerful Mosaic browser, you can listen to the music on-line, but you need a very powerful computer. Point you browser at the following Universal Resource Locators(URL) : IUMA, RockNet, Kaleisdospace, metaverse. com. The home page of each site usually has a how-to guide. If your system doesn’t allow WWW access, but lets you use gopher(like Concordia University's Pavo system), go to your main command prompt, and type in gopher URI. for site. Once at the site, you will have to download the sound files to your Internet system, or directly to your PC(assuming you use a terminal server.)

OBS

Yet there are limits to the technology as it now exists. Even with a high-speed modem and the necessary sound card, a three- or four-minute song can take anywhere from 10 minutes to several hours to download. It can also use up a large amount of computer storage space.

Key term(s)
  • online music store
  • online music service
  • online music distribution

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
  • Musique électronique
OBS

Comparer à achat en ligne.

Spanish

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