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CES 2023: Smelling, touching take center stage in metaverse

The metaverse — essentially a buzzword for three-dimensional virtual communities where people can meet, work and play — was a key theme during the four-day tech gathering in Las Vegas that ends Sunday.

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"Being able to feel the ground when you're walking with your partner, or holding their hands while you're doing that… subtle ways we engage people will change once haptic technology is fully immersive in VR," Townsend said. Still, it's unlikely that many of these products will become widely used in the next few years, even in gaming, said Matthew Ball, a metaverse expert. Instead, he said the pioneers of adoption are likely to be fields that have higher budgets and more precise needs, such as bomb units using haptics and virtual reality to help with their work and others in the medical field.