元宇宙的发展

Development of Metaverse

元宇宙近几年来骤然火爆起来,各个行业争先恐后加入元宇宙的发展浪潮中来。元宇宙由于5G、VR、AR、AI、区块链等技术发展扩展了人们对现实与未来空间的渴望,同时“元宇宙概念”带来的投资机会,使人们对元宇宙巨大的机遇和革命性的作用都非常期待。从目前来看,元宇宙初步体现在游戏娱乐行业、社交、消费、数字孪生等方面。国内外的学者尝试对元宇宙进行定义,并从多个方面对元宇宙发展方式进行阐述。元宇宙近两年开始在各个行业快速崛起,但各个行业并没有一个清晰的发展方向,那么什么是元宇宙?元宇宙会走向哪里?会带来什么?这里从客观角度科技发展的趋势,从主观角度人类自我发展的内在驱动,提出新的元宇宙定义,在此基础上,提出元宇宙需要经过三个发展阶段,即虚拟阶段、物机互融阶段、N平行宇宙阶段。同时对各阶段需要支撑的科学技术要求进行阐述,举例并给出结论,希望能为元宇宙的发展带来一些启示。

The Metaverse has exploded in popularity in recent years, and various industries are scrambling to join the wave of development of the Metaverse. Due to the development of 5 G,VR,AR,AI,blockchain and other technologies, the Metaverse has expanded people’s desire for reality and future space. At the same time, the investment opportunities brought by the "Metaverse Concept" have made people’s huge opportunities and revolutionary role about the Metaverse. From the current point of view, the Metaverse is initially reflected in the game entertainment industry, social interaction, consumption, industrial twinning, etc. Scholars at home and abroad have tried to define the Metaverse and expounded the development of the Metaverse from various aspects. The Metaverse has been rapidly rising in various industries in the past two years, but each industry does not have a clear development direction. So what is the Metaverse? Where is the Metaverse heading? What will it bring us? Here, from the objective point of view of the trend of technological development, and from the subjective point of view of the internal drive of human self-development, a new definition of the Metaverse is proposed. On this basis, it is proposed that the Metaverse needs to go through three stages of development, namely, the virtual stage, the stage of mutual integration of things and machines, and the stage of N parallel universe. At the same time, the scientific and technical requirements that need to be supported at each stage are expounded, examples and conclusions are given, hoping to bring some inspiration to the development of the Metaverse.