MetaKey: Physically Securing the Virtual World

This article discusses MetaKey, a unique solution for identity management and authentication in the Metaverse.

- Aditya Mitra and Gautam Galada

The Metaverse offers a collection of virtual reality ‘worlds’ for interaction, communication, teamwork, gaming, entertainment, and other purposes. In the Metaverse, each entity is authenticated on a virtual platform, making it a very secure world. It encourages multilingual communication both locally and internationally. 

The education sector stands to benefit greatly from the Metaverse. The pandemic has demonstrated how simple it is to implement online education using platforms for streaming video, together with other systems that facilitate tests, assignments, and other things that are associated with the educational system. However, the absence of laboratories on these video-sharing platforms does hinder the students’ practical knowledge. This shortcoming can be addressed in the Metaverse, where laboratories can exist and tests can be carried out in the same way as is done in the real world. Of course, the technology we currently have does limit such laboratories. For instance, understanding how different compounds smell is crucial while learning chemistry. With the technology we have today, this is impossible. 

Figure 1: Representative image of Metaverse