Lights and shadows of the metaverse

We are facing an exciting future, although not without significant challenges, on which to build a multidimensional interactive environment with great transformative potential. The concept of the metaverse is not developed as a videogame of great dimensions, rather it is founded on the base of virtual socialization: the objective is to interact with other people (avatars) through public spaces, cinemas, offices, leisure spaces, etc. Therefore, the opportunities are virtually limitless, as many as the ones the physical world presents us with, among which are working, collecting a salary, going to concerts, visiting museums to studying a degree. However, advances in the development of the metaverse also imply the appearance of new risks and challenges, since they generate new spaces for violent social behavior, new economical space for crime, perverse gamification and even a true criminal e-learning for the exchange of criminal knowledge.