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The introduction

Recently, the concept of “meta-universe” has caught fire, and it has been widely viewed as the future of the Internet. It attracts money in various poses and makes entrepreneurs see the shining golden future. However, say it thief good in everybody when, the personage inside course of study of part says it is a pit! So is the meta-universe just a concept like the last artificial intelligence craze, or is it really the future of humanity?

The craze of the metadverse

These two days, the capital market set off a “meta-universe” upsurge. Investors haven’t fully understand what is “yuan universe”, the a-share market in early suppression of games in A row that has the collective violence, the old game middle treasure even pull two 20% harden board, bao tong science and technology, network, network technology, kai shing days the network, the silk road vision, we now video also showed A sharp rise.

So what is the meta-universe? The term meta-universe originated from the 1992 avalanche, a science fiction novel written by Neo Stevenson, a famous American science fiction writer. In the book, Stevenson described a network world parallel to the real world — meta-world, in which all the people in the real world have a cyber dopant. Stevenson’s meta-world is the new form of the Internet after the realization of virtual reality.

In the original work, Metaverse is made up of Meta and Verse, Meta means transcendence and Verse stands for universe, which together means the concept of transcending the universe: An artificial space running parallel to the real world is the next stage of the Internet, a virtual reality network world supported by AR, VR, 3D and other technologies. The meta-universe cannot be completely divorced from the real world. It is parallel to the real world, connected to it, but separate from it, where people can actually socialize and work.

Such an “avant-garde” concept was quickly welcomed by the capital market. In fact, before the explosion of the concept of “meta-universe” in the current round of A-share market, A group of Internet head companies had begun to actively embrace the “meta-universe” in Silicon Valley on the other side of the Ocean. In July, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company would become a universal company by 2025. In an internal employee letter announcing the company’s plans for the metasurverse, Zuckerberg noted that “five years from now, or seven years from now, we’ll be known primarily as a metasurverse company, not just a mobile Internet company.” In particular, on October 28, 2021, at Facebook Connect’s annual conference, Facebook announced that the company would change its name to “Meta.” This certainly lit a fire that quickly spread through the IT world, pushing the attention of the metasverse to its peak.

In addition, VR gaming platform Roblox jumped 54.4% on its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange in March. Roblox went from $4 billion to $45 billion in a year. Roblox was the first company to put a “metasomes” in its prospectus. Roblox has opened the door to the “metasomes” that some now believe will dominate the Internet for the next decade.

On the mainland, Chinese Internet giants are also actively deploying “metasomes” : As early as 2019, Tencent established a joint venture team with Roblox, and regarded “Roblus” and “Fortnite” as the next two trump cards in “metasomes” games. In April, Bytedance invested 100 million yuan in Chinese mobile game developer CodeQiankun to create content, entertainment experience and social interaction as a platform for youth creation, entertainment and social networking. In August, VR startup Pico sent out a letter to all employees, revealing that the company was acquired by Bytedance, and Bytedance officially joined VR. The combination of the two investments has been interpreted by the market as byteDance’s ambition to build a “meta-universe.” At the same time, Tencent, Alibaba, NetEase, Baidu, Bytedance, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom are all planning the meta-universe. Tencent, which has applied for trademark registration for the “King Yuan Universe” and “Tian Dollar Universe” as well as the QQ Yuan Universe trademark, has invested in at least 67 game companies in 10 months this year and appears to be building the meta universe in a “games + social” way.

Topics related to the meta-universe quickly break the circle, the market attention is very high, differences and consensus coexist. We believe that the ultimate metaverse, which connects the physical and digital worlds, will be the way of life 20 years from now, reshaping the digital economy. The metasemes bring together a large number of discrete single points of innovation to form new species with long-term potential and opportunities beyond imagination.

The realization of the meta-universe

Starting from the experience scene and analyzing the underlying technology, the meta-universe industry chain can be divided into 7 layers. Thus, the meta-universe is a fusion of a series of technological innovations:

1) Experience: Games are currently the closest “entrance” to the meta-universe, and experience will continue to evolve from games to provide users with more content for entertainment, social interaction, consumption, learning and business work, covering various life scenarios.

2) Discovery: Figuring out how new experiences reach users, including advertising systems, review and selection processes for new experiences, as well as stores/channels like Steam, Epic Games, TapTap, Stadia Cloud Games, etc.

3) Creator economy: Experiences and content in the meta-universe need to be constantly updated, constantly lowering the barriers to creation, and providing development tools, stock shops, automated workflows, and means of monetization.

4) Spatial computing: Seamlessly mixing the digital and physical worlds so that the two worlds can sense, understand and interact with each other, including 3D engines, VR/AR/XR, voice and gesture recognition, spatial mapping, digital twin technology, etc.

5) Decentralization: The economic development of the metasurverse needs to be based on a shared and widely accepted set of standards and protocols to promote the unity of the entire metasurverse system and the mobility of the virtual economy system. Cryptocurrencies and NFT (non-homogeneous tokens) can provide digital ownership and verifiability to the metasexes, and breakthroughs in blockchain technology, edge computing, and artificial intelligence will further decentralize.

6) Human-computer interaction: With the realization of miniaturized sensors, embedded AI technology and low-latency edge computing systems, it is expected that future human-computer interaction devices will carry more and more applications and experiences in the metasomes. VR/AR headsets are widely regarded as the main terminal for entering the metasexes due to their ability to provide better immersion, along with wearable devices, brain-computer interfaces and other devices that further enhance immersion.

7) Infrastructure: The explosion of the metaverse concept is an inevitable result of the marginal improvement of infrastructure technology. With the maturity of TECHNOLOGIES such as 5G, cloud computing and semiconductors, real-time communication capabilities in virtual environments will be greatly improved, supporting large-scale users to be online at the same time, ensuring lower latency and realizing a more immersive experience.

Some people believe that with the continuous improvement of 5G penetration rate, network transmission rate and quality are expected to be further improved, and more enterprise-level and consumer-level next-generation application innovations are expected to be implemented, among which cloud games will take the lead in large-scale implementation as the killer application in the 5G era. In addition, with the continuous improvement of communication and computing power technology, the technical threshold of the metasexes will continue to be lowered, and the realization of a wider range of penetration is expected to further improve the user’s immersive experience.

The total is

I can say this objectively and rationally: although the current metasurm-related products are mostly conceptual, with the development of science and technology, we have reason to believe that more and more new technology companies will emerge to empower the metasurm-related products and improve the operability and practicability of industrial enterprises. After the underlying technology is built, and with the support of advanced analysis and computing technologies such as big data and cloud computing, it may only be a matter of time before the metasomes gradually mature.

Then there’s the meta-cosmic trap to watch out for. At present, the meta-universe is still in its infancy, and many technologies are still at the primary level. So the fire of the meta-universe, also can only be conceptual things. It was also because of this, there are quite a few yuan universe scam out constantly emerging, similar to borrow the related training course, the name of the universe of pseudo investment projects as well as a variety of shanzhai virtual currency, mostly to cut chives, a lot of things is to use the existing data, artificial intelligence technology, is not effectively for the yuan to the universe from the fundamental level to the ground. The members who were lured into joining only discussed how to speculate on virtual currency and how to make money, which were not true products of the metasverse project.

But if I said so, IT would be tantamount to admitting its legitimacy. I can’t bear to see the public fooled and cheated like this, which is not in line with the professional ethics of IT people. Just this month, Zhou Hongyi, founder of qihoo 360 Group, appeared on a CCTV talk show, where he raised the topic of the meta-universe. He said the concept of the metasomes has become very popular recently, with many people finding new ways to circle money. Zhou hongyi believes that Facebook’s vision for the “metasomes” is good, but I don’t think the metasomes represent the future of humanity. Instead, they represent the decline of humanity.

“Right now, everything in the metasverse is unreal, and even if it is, it is virtual reality.” Zhou Said, “I have talked with some colleagues in the US, and they think the highest future of the meta-universe is brain-computer interface. You can just lie on the bed with your eyes closed, plug in a tube with nutrient solution, and stimulate your brain waves, and create countless fantasies. Wouldn’t that be the Matrix human battery?”

Zhou believes that if everyone lives in an illusory space, it will not bring real development to human society. What mankind needs to solve is energy freedom and space navigation.

Li Ren, an investor in hard technology, told Cch.COM that he believes the current reality of the meta-universe is that concepts are being speculation in the secondary market, while none of the products in the primary market have actually landed, according to cCH.COM. To put it bluntly, the metaverse, fire is too early. Current technologies, whether VR, chips, or graphics rendering, are far from achieving the metasurverse.

So, speaking from the economic level, the meta-universe is just a capital hyped unreal concept.

The metasomes can also take different forms: they can be supersized online games, a virtual world with vast coverage. A large number of young people are divorced from the real world and become “prometheans”, with their bodies lying at home and their spirits in the metaverse. But this is completely against the historical trend of social development, which is why I agree to some extent with Zhou Hongyi’s view that the meta-universe represents a step backward for humanity.

This is also inconsistent with the social background of vigorously developing industrial culture. In essence, the metasurverse is at best the next generation of the Internet, and may represent the trend and future of technology. However, there are also more and more organizations or enterprises, under the banner of “meta-universe”, cheating, hyping concepts, engaging in illegal or non-compliant businesses such as cryptocurrency or mining machines. In this regard, the well-known science and technology expert — gao Zelong, who has been preaching and preaching about the yuan Universe since early May, proposed to change the name of “yuan universe” to “yuan network” and return to the essence, reduce hype and standardize development. Some netizens said: “What meta-universe, isn’t it the VR enhanced version of my world?” It can be said that the description is very appropriate. The 2018 film Ready Player One is an ideal form of the metasemes. Is that what we want?

Some people think that the meta-universe is actually a virtual reality new vests, new bottles of old wine, the net integration of some concepts that the public do not understand to confuse, ring money, I really hope these IT enterprises can do something practical. Facebook is really cutting edge when it comes to addressing key components of 5G, such as network slicing, SDN and NFV. Zuckerberg’s views are representative of Facebook, not of human society as a whole. They always say that the meta-universe is the future of mankind. That’s a little too confident. Just pull it off.

In recent years, many high-tech concepts and products, such as artificial intelligence, VR, AR, quantum computing, 5G, cloud computing, big data, cloud native, etc., are too many. Some products actually improve our lives. Others are just concepts. Like this article: Is ARTIFICIAL intelligence a hoax? In that way, no matter how the development of science and technology, it is always inseparable from the idea of serving mankind as the purpose. Science and technology must be a tool to help and assist human beings, must be a positive and progressive direction, people-oriented development concept to implement the whole society, is the cornerstone. Rather than trying to put people into a virtual meta-universe, it would be better to donate food to underfed regions.

In addition to information companies and Internet companies engaged in the meta-universe, wine, food and daily necessities enterprises have also begun to join the meta-universe. It may be that the setting of daily necessities in the meta-universe needs their products for reference. It used to be quantum mechanics, it used to be blockchain, it used to be artificial intelligence, and now you can see the trend is to add meta-universe to everything, add Meta to everything. History is always repeating itself, the repeated hoax only needs a new brand, the former was The Chinese god turtle, now is the quantum metaverse.

The meta-universe is not the end of Internet technology, but the retrogression of human society.