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article丨Li Anmin (Deputy Dean of China Telecom Research Institute and Co-Chairman of the Metaverse Industrial Committee)
At present, technology, industry and capital are pushing the Metaverse from science fiction to reality, and the Metaverse era is coming. The metaverse is the next generation of the Internet, a space for people's lives and work to integrate virtual and real, and an important production place for digital assets. The metaverse is also an important scenario and application that satisfies people's yearning for a better life. The metaverse will lead the future development of the global digital economy , and will also bring new opportunities and new tracks to promote the economic development of my country's "three new and one high" and continuously improve, strengthen and expand the rare scientific and technological research and development, application scenarios, new facilities, digital assets, etc. brought by my country's digital economy.
The English word of the meta universe is composed of Meta (transcendence) and Universe (universe). The three Chinese characters in the meta universe each have a profound meaning: Yuan is the beginning, representing the origin; the four directions are called the universe, representing space; from ancient times to present, it represents time. In a sense, the word metaverse covers the origin and development of everything in the world, and also indicates that the metaverse can open a new era through the reshaping of space and time.
undoubtedly, the information that has the greatest impact on humans, , digital technology and applications are the Internet. From the PC (personal computer) Internet, mobile Internet, to the next generation of Internet represented by the metaverse, the primary question is what the metaverse is.
There are currently thousands of different definitions in the industry, which are explained from different perspectives and express their respective opinions. This book is based on the people-oriented concept of science and technology, combined with profound insights into the evolution of Internet technology and the development of human society. By reflecting the times, grasping regularity, and giving creativity, it provides insightful and original interpretations with a new perspective of higher dimensions, broader vision and more forward-looking.
The book begins by pointing out that the metaverse is the Internet of consciousness and life, and finally ends with "establishing the mind for the metaverse", which echoes through the beginning and end, explaining the question of what the metaverse is, that is, the core characteristics and development trends of the metaverse. The content of the five basic technologies and five pillar technologies of the metaverse are the inevitable result of core characteristics and development trends, and is also to serve to adapt to the development trend of the metaverse and realize the core characteristics of the metaverse.
The core interpretation of the metaverse of this book is the Internet of consciousness and life. The main expressions of consciousness and life are experience and experience, value realization and emotional satisfaction. The development of the metaverse presents a "three new" trend: new role positioning, social relations, rules and order will appear; new digital assets, virtual space, value and even "species" will be created; new virtual space society, virtual social culture will be gradually evolved. The Metauniverse era will reshape rules, break the limitations of rules, and make people have greater and richer possibilities for their experience, value realization and emotional satisfaction, and achieve exponential amplification.
One important aspect of value realization is that people are inspiring their creativity and realizing their creation. The most prominent feature of the metacosmic era is that users are both consumers, participants, and creators. In the virtual space of the metaverse, more and more animation characters, art works, and even digital assets such as virtual real estate will be created and produced. Judging from the layout of internationally renowned Internet companies such as Facebook and Roblox, the metaverse provides an entrance for virtual socialization and virtual office, but its future intention is mainly to digital creation and digital assets.
Digital assets and digital creation based on digital identity will become an important part of the future world asset and value creation. How to make digital assets convenient, safe, tradable, and intelligently manageable has become an important topic.The ten major technologies of the metaverse discussed in this book are all based on the core judgment that the metaverse is consciousness and life. They are also developed to support whether the metaverse can achieve better experience, greater value realization and more full emotional satisfaction. A lot of introductions and explanations are made from technology, applications, cases, etc.
It can be foreseen that the metacosmic era is an era that constantly gives consciousness, emotions and life to machines, devices, entrances, networks, applications, platforms, and data. More and more immersive experience, emotional, and creative metacosmic entrances, applications and platforms will appear. The top ten technologies of the metaverse are to create these entrances, applications and platforms, and at the same time, they are constantly expanding, evolving and upgrading.
From the perspective of the five pillar technologies of the metaverse, the technology of interaction and display supports the creation and implementation of the entrances and exits of the metaverse, while the appeal of immersive experience, emotional, and creative entrance applications is "holographic input" and "all-around perception". This can ensure that users have a comprehensive and in-depth immersion experience in the metaverse. Therefore, the innovation and upgrading of technologies such as VR, naked-eye 3D, laser holography, etc. must be deepened and expanded around "holographic" and "all-around". Blockchain and other technologies that create identity and economic systems and content creation technologies are mainly aimed at digital creation and digital assets that promote the development of the metaverse, inspire people's creativity, realize creation, and meet the needs of human consciousness and life to realize the value realization of human consciousness. The digital twin and digital native technologies are pillar base technologies that meet and achieve the above needs and applications.
From the perspective of the five fundamental technologies of the metaverse, since the metaverse is the Internet of consciousness and life, the demand for entrances, applications and platforms and the data it brings are not only massive, complex, but also holographic and multidimensional; the requirements for computing processing are not only fast and accurate, but also intelligent and flexible; the demand for network transmission is not only high bandwidth and low latency, but also agile and controllable.
Therefore, the computing technology, storage technology, network technology, and AI technology of the metaverse must respond to changes in these new needs. Intelligent computing, holographic networks, emotional AI and other technologies are important directions for the future expansion of metaverse technology. Finally, it is precisely because the future metaverse is the Internet of consciousness and life that people in the metaverse will gradually evolve into new role positioning, social relations, cultural order, etc. As the book explains, the "intelligent earth constructed by consciousness" will produce, so the connotation and extension of the metaverse governance and security management will greatly exceed the scope of cyberspace governance and network information security management. This book has made in-depth explanations on the system security technology of the five fundamental technologies of the metaverse and the governance technology of the five pillar technologies of the metaverse. In the future, there will be many new issues and new fields such as law, morality, and ethics that need us to study and expand.
This book proposes that the ultimate goal of the metaverse is to build a smart earth in consciousness and realize the extension and leap of human consciousness and life. This requires that the ten major technologies of the metaverse must be based on the in-depth and breakthroughs of human consciousness and life sciences. But it should be noted that as mentioned in the last article of this book, humans' understanding of their own consciousness and life is still very superficial, and their theory and science are still in a very early stage. It is difficult to implement technologies based on these theories and science, and the results are not ideal. The process of large-scale commercial productization and industrialization will have a long-term process.
For example, people have done their own research and explanations in philosophy, ethics, psychology, life sciences and other aspects. However, how to establish the necessary connection between the understanding, theories and methods of these different disciplines with modern information science , transform it into a means of modern science and technology, and supplement, deepen and expand the top ten technologies of the metaverse, is a topic worthy of people's research and exploration.Therefore, this book finally proposes "establishing a mind for the metaverse", which once again echoes the opening judgment that the metaverse is consciousness and life Internet, and on the other hand, it further proposes that the ultimate goal of the development of the metaverse is to realize the extension of human consciousness and life. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to achieve the two-way promotion of the development of metacosmic technology and the technological development of human consciousness and life awareness, so as to truly achieve the goal of "knowing self-self , realizing self-realization, and realizing selflessness".
The future path of the metaverse is a way for human beings to explore and develop the metaverse, and the metaverse is also exploring the path of developing human beings. Let us overcome all obstacles and move forward bravely along this path, and strive for the construction of a consensus circle of the metaverse together.
This article is the preface to "The Top Ten Technologies of the Metaverse".
"Top Ten Technologies of the Metaverse"
Author: Ye Yurui Li Anmin Li Hui Cen Zhike He Chao
Publisher: China Translation Press
Publication time: July 2022
Recommended words: htm2 "Top Ten Technologies of the Meta Universe" was organized and written by the Meta Universe Industry Committee of the China Mobile Communications Federation. It is the first book in China to comprehensively analyze the principles, practices, trends, and related ecology and industries of the Meta Universe Technology.
