Getui CTO Talks Interestingly about the Metaverse and Data Intelligence

Today, more and more companies are deploying and entering the Metaverse. It is said that this year's 618, Taobao also specially created a virtual venue, allowing some users to experience Metaverse shopping first.

So, what exactly is the metaverse? Why is the Metaverse so hot? What are the cutting-edge technologies related to the metaverse that we need to focus on? What is the intrinsic relationship between the metaverse and data intelligence? Daily Interaction (Tweet) CTO Ye Xinjiang Anson combines movies, games and current hot topics to make an interesting interpretation of the Metaverse, let's listen to what he has to say~

GeTui CTO Ye Xinjiang (Anson)
Fully responsible for the company's technical management, R&D innovation, operation and maintenance management and other work. One of the founders of Getui Technology, presided over the planning of Getui's technical architecture and the construction of basic technology platforms. At present, he leads the team to focus on the research and implementation of various fields related to data intelligence, such as daily arithmetic platform, machine learning, secure computing, knowledge graph, etc.

You are no stranger to the Metaverse!

In fact, we are no strangers to the "metaverse". In many well-known science fiction and film works such as "The Matrix" and "Avatar", there are some descriptions related to the "metaverse", which can be traced back to the book "Snow Crash" published in 1992. The first appearance of the word "Metaverse" in the book: On the back of the (business card) is a jumble of contact details: phone numbers, global voice phone locators, post office box numbers, URLs on six electronic communication networks, and a metaverse address in . It can be seen that the "metaverse" has a long history.

Meta means "meta, transcendence", and Verse means "universe". In terms of word sense, "metaverse" refers to a space-time superimposed between virtual space-time and physical space-time, which is "a space-time beyond physics".

The movie that is currently considered to be closest to the concept of the metaverse is the movie "Ready Player One" released in 2018. In this film, players can experience the infinite prosperity and bizarreness of the virtual space called "Oasis" through VR immersive equipment.

In addition, if you want to further feel and experience the "metaverse", you can try the online virtual game "Second Life", which is called the closest product to the metaverse so far. In this game, as a "resident" of the virtual community, players are not assigned any game tasks, and can choose their own lifestyle according to their own ideas, such as being a "worker" who works hard to make money, or An explorer who travels everywhere in search of treasure.

The works and games mentioned above give us some intuitive understanding of the metaverse. But what exactly is the metaverse? Currently, different people have their own interpretations. Roblox, a metaverse company that went public last year, believes that the metaverse should contain eight elements: identity, friends, diversity, anytime, anywhere, immersion, low latency, economic system and civilization. In the Metaverse, each user has an identity and can carry out diversified activities such as social networking, shopping, and games anytime, anywhere. There will also be economic systems in the metaverse, and civilizations will be born.

Why is the Metaverse so hot?

Just like in many sci-fi blockbusters, in the metaverse, users can call various services with a wave of their hands, and they can quickly solve various problems by calling the AI assistant. Experiences that are unsatisfactory in the real world, you can easily achieve in the metaverse. This is a big reason for the metaverse fire. We call it "Virtual Reality Compensation Theory."

"Virtual reality compensation theory" means that if people feel a lack in the real world, they will want to get corresponding compensation in the virtual world (there is also a possibility that people realize compensation for the virtual world in the real world). For example, many boys want to experience the joy of gunfights and shooting, but they cannot be satisfied in reality, so they will compensate themselves by shooting games or watching related movies, novels, etc.

The second cause of the metaverse fire comes from the "eternal impulse of creation" of mankind. Based on the "Virtual Reality Compensation Theory", it is assumed that a civilization's impulse to create virtual worlds in order to obtain compensation is eternal, then in the long-term development, the civilization will inevitably create virtual worlds one by one. Of course, the world in which this civilization itself lives is most likely created by the designers of the upper world.

The third reason is because of the arrival of the critical point of virtualization of human society. Today, we are more and more in the virtual world or cyberspace (Cyberspace) activities. Especially the arrival of the epidemic has further accelerated the virtualization of society, and the Internet time of the whole society has increased significantly. And when the time we allocate to the digital world reaches a tipping point, it may mean that we have truly entered the metaverse.

In the metaverse era, our lives will migrate more from offline to online, and online and offline will be further integrated, and human beings will gradually become an amphibious species in the real world and the digital virtual world.

Finally, the reason why the Metaverse has become so popular in the past two years is inseparable from the promotion of technology, capital, user needs and other aspects.

The deepening application of technologies such as AI, digital twin, big data, cloud computing, and blockchain has laid the foundation for the development of the Metaverse. The exploration of metaverse-related applications such as virtual idols, intelligent manufacturing, and immersive games has allowed capital to see the broad commercial potential brought by the superposition of reality and virtuality.

Core technologies related to the Metaverse

From concept to implementation, from vision to reality, the further development of the Metaverse should be supported by a variety of cutting-edge technologies. For example, based on XR and other extended reality technologies to provide immersive experience, based on digital twin technology to generate images of the real world, based on blockchain technology to build an economic system, based on 5G and cloud computing to provide low-latency communication and real-time computing capabilities, based on UGC, AI computing provides virtual world content and information (such as AI-generated maps), and social platforms that operate based on rules and algorithms.

Every technology mentioned here is crucial to the development of the metaverse, among which AR, VR, XR and other extended reality technologies are considered to be the key to opening the metaverse.

"The display is the entrance". As the entrance to the metaverse, display devices such as VR glasses can greatly improve the efficiency of our access to information and connect us to the virtual world in real time. So, when AR, VR and other technologies make real breakthroughs, the metaverse may be really close at hand.

Data Intelligence and the Metaverse

As the metaverse gradually becomes a reality, data intelligence-related technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and digital twins will be applied in more interesting scenarios.

For example, artificial intelligence will develop from traditional decision trees and state machines to more advanced deep learning and reinforcement learning, which can automatically generate a large amount of non-repetitive content and realize the spontaneous and organic growth of the metaverse; intelligently organize the content of the metaverse present to specific users; efficiently censor the massive content in the Metaverse to ensure the safety and legality of the Metaverse.

At the same time, the Internet of Things will also be widely used. We can highly online and digitize real-world objects and production and operation activities, realize digital twins, and build a virtual world that is infinitely close to the real world; sensors transmit real-world data to the virtual world in real time and map them to the twin. ; AI automatically processes and analyzes this data to make diagnoses and even predictions. For example, AI predicts that a machine will fail, and can autonomously give a solution strategy, and can automatically complete the repair of the machine in the real world. At that time, an ideal metaverse world was born.

Getui implements data intelligence through the three steps of "Data Accumulation (Data) - Data Governance (Machine) - Data Application (People)". The internal logic of the Metaverse can also be summarized into three steps: data accumulation through technologies such as the Internet of Things and digital twins, and data governance and mining through technologies such as artificial intelligence and cloud computing to provide services for the residents of the Metaverse. Today, people hope to use data intelligence to solve the problems of great uncertainty in reality, and to predict the future, so as to grasp the situation, grasp the trend, and grasp the initiative, which is also consistent with people's expectations for the metaverse.

Epilogue

People have a lot of good visions about the metaverse. However, it should be noted that under the concept of metaverse, there are actually many risks and problems that need to be solved urgently, such as the security governance of metaverse space, digital asset protection, digital personality protection, digital content censorship and so on.

At present, the metaverse is still in its infancy, but the fusion of the virtual world and the real world is indeed a development trend in the future. What kind of future world will the metaverse take us into? let us wait and see