The industrialization of the meta universe is still far away
Our reporter Huang Xin
The popular Meta Universe has been selected as one of the "Top Ten Internet Terms of 2021", but experts still have different opinions on what Meta Universe is.
"In the eyes of 1,000 people, there are 1,000 Metaverses." Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360 company, said publicly recently that Metaverse is still a constantly evolving and evolving concept, and it is hard to conclude.
But it should be noted that while Metaverse provides everyone with ample room for imagination, it also attracts various speculations such as gamers, stockists, currencyists, and community groups, which overdraft the future of the industry.
He Baohong, director of the Institute of Cloud Computing and Big Data, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, believes that the inflection point of the Internet industry has come. Metaverse is a digital version of the "Genesis Project", a new world created during the epidemic, bringing spiritual comfort and immersion. User experience.
According to Yu Jianing, executive director of China Mobile's Metaspace Industry Committee, Metaspace is essentially the third generation of the Internet, a higher-dimensional digital space on top of the PC Internet and the mobile Internet.
And the source of the development power of this digital space is the integrated innovation and fusion of cutting-edge digital technologies such as cloud computing, distributed storage, Internet of Things, VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality), 5G, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. .
Regardless of what Metaverse is, Zhou Hongyi believes that among the many schools of Metaverse, 360 is the firm “digital twin”, that is, it opposes Metaverse that is too detached from reality and obsessed with games, but supports Metaverse that integrates with industrial digitalization and realizes the industry. The meta-universalization of the Internet has continuously empowered the digital transformation of various industries and the high-quality economic development.
"As a deeply rooted concept, Meta Universe should serve the real economy, the manufacturing industry, and the digital transformation of various traditional industries." Zhou Hongyi said.
Currently, companies are moving closer to Meta Universe.
A few days ago, China Mobile Migu cooperated with Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, combining 5G, cloud VR, AR and other technologies to create the world's first "5G Metaverse Film Festival".
The just-convened Baidu Developer Conference is called to be held in Metaverse.
"The emergence of the meta-universe concept has its reasonable side. For example, humans need fresh experience and aesthetics. However, some of the current ambitions and statements of the meta-universe have exceeded the status quo of technology." He Baohong, for example, as the core equipment of the meta-universe, At present, the weight of VR (virtual reality) glasses is 10 to 20 times that of ordinary glasses. It is impossible for people to wear such heavy glasses for a long time. Only when their weight is reduced to one-tenth of the present can they satisfy people's wearing experience, but The time required for this process is unknown.
Zhou Hongyi believes that the higher the level of digitization, the greater the security challenge. Future attacks on the virtual world will harm the real world. Therefore, the security risks that Metaverse faces are essentially challenges brought about by digital security.
Under the strong demand of Metaverse, network security should be upgraded accordingly.
Yu Jianing said frankly that at present, the ones that are really closely related to Metaverse are Internet giants, who need to find the next direction of the mobile Internet; the other are Internet-related entrepreneurs and angel investors.
The meta-universe-related industries are not yet mature enough, and many companies currently only have one strategy, which is quite far away from the real meta-universe industrialization.
"Meta Universe is still in the introductory stage, and it is expected that it will be initially applied in 5 years, but it will take 20 to 30 years to reach the ideal end." He Baohong said that only a part of the Meta Universe can be realized now, and it will be implemented in the next 5 years. Games, entertainment, education, culture, art and other fields have been widely used. Other fields need time to further platform, generalize, and engineer related technologies.