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    8. More potential negatives of the advancement of XR

    When asked to describe some of the negatives of the XR world, these experts highlighted a wide-ranging number of threats. Those included reductions in personal autonomy and people’s ability to control their lives; worsening digital divides; amplified discrimination; new forms of harassment, bullying and hate; new menaces to public safety, especially around sexual violence and […]

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    Sahana Mukherjee

    Sahana Mukherjee is the associate director of race and ethnicity research at Pew Research Center. She is an expert on issues of immigration, national identity, and the experiences of U.S. Hispanic, Black and Asian populations. She works across the Center’s research process, from designing surveys, analyzing surveys and demographic data, and writing reports that inform public conversation and news coverage. She regularly shares […]

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    Acknowledgments

    Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. This is the latest report in Pew Research Center’s ongoing investigation of the state of news, information and journalism in the digital age, a research program funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, with generous support from the John S. and James […]

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    Comparing Views of the U.S. and China in 24 Countries

    We examine how the U.S. and China stack up to one another on more than 10 measures of international public opinion, spanning from confidence in their leaders to views of their universities and technological achievements.

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    5. The metaverse will not fully emerge in the way today’s advocates hope

    Nearly half of these expert respondents said much-more-immersive virtual settings will not have significantly broader influence in people’s daily lives by 2040. Some said the buzz about extended reality (XR) is mostly what one called “typical tech hype.” A share of them said they expect this cluster of technologies is likely to make a few […]

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    4. Black Americans’ engagement with news and information on COVID-19 and other science-related topics

    One way people engage with science is through the news and information they encounter in daily life, through conversations, the news media, interactions on social media, or by attending events. The coronavirus outbreak and development of COVID-19 vaccines is a pressing reminder that adults often learn about emerging scientific developments through informal avenues. To better […]

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    3. Two meta insights about the future of the metaverse

    Two overarching themes emerged in respondents’ answers as they contemplated the most likely fate of the metaverse and extended reality (XR) by 2040. The first: Augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) information layers that can be seamlessly implemented in real-world settings will be relatively widely embraced across societies by 2040 as a part of […]

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    3. Black Americans’ views on transgender and nonbinary issues

    The intersection of race with gender identity and sexuality presents a unique set of challenges for Black Americans. Although most Black adults say they experience discrimination because of their race (79%), many scholars and activists say the nature of discrimination changes when people have multiple identities. This compounded nature of inequality was termed “intersectionality” in […]