A new technology perspective of the Metaverse: Its essence, framework and challenges

IF 7.5 2区计算机科学 Q1 TELECOMMUNICATIONS Digital Communications and Networks Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.dcan.2023.02.017

Feifei Shi , Huansheng Ning , Xiaohong Zhang , Rongyang Li , Qiaohui Tian , Shiming Zhang , Yuanyuan Zheng , Yudong Guo , Mahmoud Daneshmand

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The Metaverse depicts a parallel digitalized world where virtuality and reality are fused. It has economic and social systems like those in the real world and provides intelligent services and applications. In this paper, we introduce the Metaverse from a new technology perspective, including its essence, corresponding technical framework, and potential technical challenges. Specifically, we analyze the essence of the Metaverse from its etymology and point out breakthroughs promising to be made in time, space, and contents of the Metaverse by citing Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Subsequently, we conclude four pillars of the Metaverse, named ubiquitous connections, space convergence, virtuality and reality interaction, and human-centered communication, and establish a corresponding technical framework. Additionally, we envision open issues and challenges of the Metaverse in the technical aspect. The work proposes a new technology perspective of the Metaverse and will provide further guidance for its technology development in the future.

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虚拟世界的新技术视角:其本质、框架和挑战

虚拟世界描绘了一个虚拟和现实融合的平行数字化世界。它具有与现实世界相似的经济和社会系统，并提供智能服务和应用。本文从新的技术角度介绍了元宇宙，包括它的本质、相应的技术框架和潜在的技术挑战。具体来说，我们从词源学的角度分析了虚拟世界的本质，并引用马斯洛的需求层次理论，指出虚拟世界在时间、空间和内容上的突破。随后，我们总结了元宇宙的四大支柱，即泛在连接、空间融合、虚拟与现实交互、以人为本的交流，并建立了相应的技术框架。此外，我们在技术方面展望了Metaverse的开放问题和挑战。该工作提出了一种新的元宇宙技术视角，并将为未来的技术发展提供进一步的指导。©2022 Elsevier Ltd.出版

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Digital Communications and Networks Computer Science-Hardware and Architecture

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915

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30 weeks

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