This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22th International Conference on Metaverse, METAVERSE 2026, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2026, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during August 2026.

The total of 6 full papers, tigether with 1 short paper included in the proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 11 submissions.

The conference focuses on advancements in networking, security, and computing technologies that support the development of the metaverse, while also identifying future research directions and open challenges in the field.