The metaverse is a constantly evolving concept, and different participants constantly enrich its meaning in their own ways, and there is no unified definition yet. This article summarizes the main views of each current school and summarizes the concept of the metaverse. Concept 1

Metauniverse is a constantly developing and evolving concept. Different participants constantly enrich its meaning in their own ways, and there is no unified definition yet. This article summarizes the main views of each current school and summarizes the concept of the metaverse.

Concept 1—From a spatial perspective: Metauniverse is a virtual world running parallel to the real world, and is a artificial space, 3D virtual space, digital life space and parallel space that are parallel to the real world. The essence of the meta-universe is highly developed and highly independent, but it is closely connected to the real world. It can react to the real world and is a virtual world with new social relations and can last and share. From the perspective of space-time, the metaverse is a virtual digital world in the space dimension and a real digital world in the time dimension.

Concept link: The word meta-universe was born in the science fiction novel "Avalanche" created by Neal Stephenson in 1992. The novel depicts a huge virtual reality world in which people use digital avatars to control virtual activities, live with virtual people through VR devices in a virtual space, and improve their status and gain benefits through competition. Avalanche novels create two new terms, Metaverse and Avatar. Therefore, American companies' definition of the metaverse is a virtual world that tends to be parallel to the real world, and is mainly based on TC. TB products such as Microsoft , and relevant executives said they do not think they belong to the metaverse field.