  Ubiquitous extended reality environments such as the Metaverse will have a
significant impact on the Internet, which will evolve to interconnect a large
number of mixed reality spaces. Currently, Metaverse development is related to
the creation of mixed reality environments, not tackling the required
networking functionalities. This article analyzes suitable networking design
choices to support the Metaverse, proposing a new service-centric networking
approach capable of incorporating low-latency data fetching, distributed
computing, and fusion of heterogeneous data types over the Cloud-to-Thing
continuum.
