The Dark Side of the Metaverse: Why is it Falling Short of Expectations?

The metaverse is a new 3-D digital space that uses virtual reality, augmented reality, and other advanced internet and semiconductor technology to provide people with lifelike personal and business experiences online. Metaverse has these features of having a sense of immersion with realtime interactivity and user agency. By incorporating cutting-edge technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence, extended reality, and edge computing, the metaverse is transitioning from science fiction to impending reality. Nevertheless, the metaverse has become increasingly common, but it still does not provide advancement in the real scenario. Users will inherently interact with the virtual world mainly through the use of realtime metaverse applications. We looked into the availability of active metaverse applications and discovered that there is an inadequate number of applications due to various challenges that developers are currently facing. We built the requirements in two phases, focusing on user and developer perspectives, for creating immersive metaverse applications. Therefore, this vision paper takes on to address the challenges that are acting as a barrier currently for developing the metaverse applications. We conclude the paper by demonstrating the impact of the derived challenges on metaverse in education.