Technological Challenges in the Metaverse Age

In the past 2021, the US sandbox game platform Roblox went public, Facebook changed its name to Meta, and the curtain of the metaverse world was opened. 2021 is thought to be Metaverse Year . However, many of the metaverse's technological ideas are still in the conceptual stage. Various technologies, including blockchain, artificial intelligence, and algorithms, affect the application and development of the Metaverse

Intel chief architect Raja Koduri predicts that we will need 1,000 times more computing power than today to support the metaverse of billions of people interacting in real time . In reality, the computing power cannot reach the ideal stat. But,through hierarchical and multi-level information calculation and processing, the system pressure is reduced and the digital information processing capability is strengthened.

As the technical support of the metaverse, artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years. Artificial intelligence can provide technical support for a large number of application scenarios in the metaverse. The technical application of artificial intelligence mainly focuses on intelligent speech, machine learning, etc., providing a technical framework for the communication between users and users, and between users and systems in the metaverse. However, at present, artificial intelligence can only interact and create under artificially set conditions, and cannot learn and grow by itself.

Blockchain technology has the advantages of high efficiency, stability and transparency, and can effectively solve the problems of circulation and virtual identity in the metaverse. This is also the reason why the concept of non-fungible token (NFT) based on blockchain technology is widely used in metaverse scenarios. However, at present, with the development of the blockchain, the number of transactions on the chain has grown rapidly, and data storage has become a problem.

In addition, as a necessary tool for the intercommunication between the metaverse world and the real world, the development of human-computer interaction devices is also very important, such as smart glasses, XR devices, haptic devices, brain-computer interfaces, etc. They closely link the metaverse and man, and are the key for man to enter the metaverse.

Just as we were unable to predict the changes that the Internet will bring to the lives of all human beings before, we also cannot predict what future the metaverse will bring. But what we can be sure of is that the door to the metaverse has been opened, followed by extremely high requirements for technological development, whether it is blockchain, artificial intelligence, computing power or human-computer interaction equipment will face many challenges .