What is the metaverse?
Metaverse, in the 1992 science fiction novel “Snow Crash,” author Neal Stephenson described a virtual world that parallels our real world. In the novel, people use their digital avatars to interact with each other. The metaverse connects people and objects in the virtual world to reality, thus integrating the digital world and the physical world, digital life and social life, digital economy and real-world economy, digital assets and physical assets, and digital identity and real identity. The pandemic accelerated its emergence. Many real-world scenarios such as O2O e-commerce, remote service lounge, online education, online concerts, online exhibitions, remote healthcare consultations, and smart manufacturing are rapidly becoming a reality. The metaverse is the next generation of the Internet, based on virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Watch the full video of Apsara 2021 Conference to get a better idea of the metaverse.
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Four Principles of Metaverse Technology
The metaverse consists of four layers of technology. The first layer is holographic construction, the second layer is holographic simulation, the third layer is the integration of the virtual and physical worlds, and the fourth layer is their connection.
Build your own metaverse with Alibaba cloud technology.
Remote rendering
The solution provides remote rendering services based on Alibaba's cloud high-performance computing (HPC) technology to support rapid and high-quality creation of various metaverse materials and digital scenario content.
Data analytics and artificial intelligence
The solution provides a unified view of the virtual and physical worlds and combines many metaverse application scenarios through computer vision, machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and intelligent speech. In addition, the data lake storage solution based on Object Storage Service (OSS) supports various data types and access channels.
Internet of Things (IoT)
Alibaba Cloud IoT solution provides reliable wireless connectivity and signal transmission services for metaverse virtual reality integration.
Blockchain as a Service (BaaS)
Alibaba Cloud Blockchain as a service is open, secure, stable, and easy to use. It ensures the traceability and non-tampering of the underlying data of the metaverse, helping users build a value-based internet with mutual trust and efficient collaboration.
Global Network Solution
Alibaba Cloud's highly reliable global network and SD-WAN technology provide a robust, low-latency, and smooth user experience for the metaverse.
Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK)
Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) provides rich scheduling, synchronization, deployment, and release capabilities for microservices to support an available, scalable, low-cost, and automated CI/CD system that helps users build metaverse applications quickly.
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