With the technological advancements of social networking, blockchain, computer vision, wireless communications, and augmented intelligence techniques, the concept of metaverse has started as a new type of social form and future Internet applications. The metaverse is broadly conceptualized as a collection of 3D virtual worlds, which enables an immersive experience by developing virtual 3D environments. While contemporary online gaming, messaging, multimedia content sharing, etc. like social networking applications and services are pervasive today, we strongly believe that the metaverse with massive and immersive virtual environments will be realized and benefit from the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) in a number of ways. Particularly, IoT technologies would support to meet high throughput, ultra-reliability & low latency requirements, offer large-scale resource demands, enable strong scalability, and at the same time, ensure security and privacy. Towards provisioning and accessing the metaverse virtual spaces as well as virtual reality object connection and convergence, there will be a surge of open research questions from IoT perspectives in both academia and industry. The proposed special session provides a great opportunity to address open questions in the metaverse with the IoT.

The aim of this special session is to bring researchers, engineers, and experts together from industry, academia, and government agencies interested in the latest advancements in the research fields of metaverse and the Internet of Things (IoT). In addition to regular papers, renowned researchers will be invited to present the identified new challenges and discuss the possible solutions in the context of metaverse with the IoT and other closely relevant topics. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: