The Metaverse empowers the Research, Study, Culture and Tourism Industry: Value, Challenges and Future Trends
Jinghui Guo · Frontiers in Business Economics and Management · 2025
With the development of digital technology, the metaverse moves from concept to application, presenting new opportunities for the study, culture and tourism industry. This article examines the value, challenges and future direction of the metaverse in empowering this industry. In terms of value, the metaverse innovates learning experiences, enables "immersive" learning interaction and integration, deepens knowledge practice with professional tools, and promotes collaborative exploration through virtual social platforms; Optimize the allocation of educational resources, with intelligent virtual mentors and real teachers working together, and resource sharing platforms breaking the limitations of time and space; Expand the space for industrial development, break through the limitations of time and space, attract investment and give birth to new business forms. However, it faces technical bottlenecks such as insufficient graphics and data processing capabilities, high cost and poor experience of hardware equipment; Conceptual biases, with some groups equating it with games, and educators worried about over commercialization; Policies and regulations are incomplete, and there are deficiencies in data security, virtual content regulation and industry standards. in the future, metaverse empowerment of the study, culture and tourism industry will be driven by technological innovation, including increased investment in research and development, innovation of hardware equipment, and promotion of technology integration; Conceptual renewal and practical exploration, building cognitive systems. exploring application models, and conducting pilot projects; Policy guarantee and regulation of development, formulation of special regulations, strengthening of platform supervision, formulation of industry standards, promoting healthy and sustainable development of the industry.