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Fabio Cortes Rodriguez and Luciano Andres Abriata (School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland)
The technologies around the "Metaverse" (“an upcoming iteration of the internet based in immersive virtual/mixed reality world with smooth human-human and human-computer interactions, cryptography, blockchain technologies, and other developments supposed to positively transform work, entertainment, education, economy, culture and politics”) offer never-thought opportunities for science. We focus here on the capability to enable highly intuitive and smooth collaboration between human users, and between humans and computer models, specifically in chemistry and biology, transforming how we can educate, self-learn, communicate science, and also work. Using WebXR we built a multiuser, web-based, highly cross-device-compatible framework for multiuser collaboration in VR. We have deployed this tool at conferences allowing scientists to discuss molecular structures in unprecedented ways, we use it regularly for science outreach events, and we are developing tools for education. We are also starting to support physically realistic simulations directly inside WebXR sessions, allowing users to manipulate objects with bare hands in ways that have never been possible before.