Virtual Reality, Metaverse and Mental Health

Mattia Indelicato

Abstract


Introducing the Metaverse, Augmented, and Virtual Reality will change people's ways of life and daily gestures. Floridi, in this regard, has coined the term "mangrove society" to indicate the living conditions of human beings suspended between online and offline. In addition to changing lifestyle habits, introducing new technologies impacts many sectors of science, including psychology and treatments on psychological well-being, so much so that the term cyberpsychology has already been coined. Studies and research on these new systems are in their infancy and show potential future developments and the limits they contain, such as the phenomenon of cybersickness and the impact that the new tools could have on physical and mental health. Furthermore, with new technologies, privacy-related problems are arising, and in part have already occurred, which should be carefully evaluated and regulated.


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cyberpsychology; cybersickness; metaverse and mental health; virtual reality and mental health; technological risks

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