What is the role of AR and VR technologies in the interactions of participants?  Do they foment or reduce social interactions and if so what type of interactions? This project will seek to inform AR and VR enabled videogames by analysing existing online platforms supporting these technologies. The project will collect comprehensive datasets from existing online metaverse platforms and analyse them using a variety of tools and techniques from social network analysis, natural language processing and economics. The findings will then be fed and compared with those from existing AR/VR videogames.