元宇宙的起源、发展及教育意蕴

The origin,development and educational implication of the metaverse

后疫情时代人类加速从现实世界向虚拟世界迁移,行走于现实与数字之间。元宇宙应运而生成为时代热词,人类迈向了元宇宙时代,步入数字化生存高级形态。当前,人们热议的元宇宙,并非宇宙的一种形态,而是借用了宇宙的隐喻。人们对元宇宙内涵的理解已经超越了文学作品和宇宙理论中的认知。元宇宙建设与发展应该遵循“三不”原则。元宇宙不能取代现实世界,而是现实世界映射的虚拟数字空间。人类进入元宇宙有三重境界:体验元宇宙、沉浸元宇宙和融入元宇宙。人类进入元宇宙有两种途径:一种是现实人与元宇宙进行沉浸式交互;另一种是人类以数字化身身份融入元宇宙,进行数字社交和数字生存。2021年6月以来,中国对元宇宙研究热度呈现爆发式增长,研究机构争先开展对元宇宙的研究。对元宇宙的研究呈现出元宇宙理论、政策法规和标准规范、战略规划与架构设计、关键技术、场景/环境构建、应用场景、经济与产业、治理等八大研究趋势。中国、韩国、美国等国家率先制定元宇宙政策,推动元宇宙产业发展。元宇宙对变革人类教育具有巨大潜能,在医疗与医学教育中具有广泛的应用前景,与现实世界重塑虚实共融的智慧学习环境。尽管元宇宙对变革人类教育具有巨大潜能,但是元宇宙不可能完全取代现实世界中的人类教育。

In the post-pandemic era,human beings accelerate the migration from the real world to the virtual world,walking between reality and digit.The metaverse came into being and became a hot word of the times.Mankind has stepped into the metaverse era and entered the advanced form of digital survival.At present,the metaverse hotly discussed by people is not a form of the universe,but borrows the metaphor of the universe.People's understanding of the connotation of the metaverse has gone beyond the cognition in literary works and universe theory.The construction and development of the metaverse should follow the principle of“three noes”.The metaverse cannot replace the real world,but the virtual digital space mapped by the real world.There are three levels for human beings to enter the metaverse:experiencing the meta-verse,immersing the metaverse and integrating into the metaverse.There are two ways for human beings to enter the metaverse:one is the immersive interaction between real people and the metaverse,the other is that human beings integrate into the metaverse as digital avatars for digital social and digital survival.Since June 2021,China's research on the metaverse has shown explosive growth,and research institutions have competed to carry out metaverse research.Meta-verse presents eight research trends,including metaverse theory,policies,regulations,standards and specifications,strategic planning and architecture design,key technologies,scenario/environ-ment construction,application scenario,economy and industry,governance and so on.China,South Korea,the United States and other countries took the lead in formulating metaverse policies to promote the development of metaverse industry.Metaverse has great potential to change human education,and has a wide application prospect in medical treatment and medical education.It can reshape the smart learning environment of virtual and real integration with the real world.Although the metaverse has great potential to change human education,it can not completely replace human education in the real world.