Metaverse: Emerging Trends and Its Regulation

As often happens science fiction offers an insight of the cyber world in different movies anticipating what science and cyber technology will offer later. Several science fiction movies have dealt with these topics. The original version of Tron1 (1982) introduces the dynamic of relations among different characters that populate computer architecture, the operating system trying to capture some rebels. The Lawnmover Man2 the movie that made virtual reality popular. The Matrix3 proposing a metaverse directly connecting real and virtual, and why do not mention the 13th Floor4 a matryoshka of virtual worlds where no one apparently knows if his reality is the “real” one. Wargames5 provides an insight on AI and much more ML as well as later Eagle Eye6. In the near future, it might happen that AI will take control of homeland security and defence system and decides to kill supposed enemies or capture and imprison “future” criminals as showcased by the science fiction movies “Minority Report” or launch attacks to other countries.