English

A Survey on Metaverse: the State-of-the-art, Technologies, Applications, and Challenges

Computers and Society 2021-11-19 v1

Abstract

Metaverse is a new type of Internet application and social form that integrates a variety of new technologies. It has the characteristics of multi-technology, sociality, and hyper spatiotemporality. This paper introduces the development status of Metaverse, from the five perspectives of network infrastructure, management technology, basic common technology, virtual reality object connection, and virtual reality convergence, it introduces the technical framework of Metaverse. This paper also introduces the nature of Metaverse's social and hyper spatiotemporality, and discusses the first application areas of Metaverse and some of the problems and challenges it may face.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.09673,
  title  = {A Survey on Metaverse: the State-of-the-art, Technologies, Applications, and Challenges},
  author = {Huansheng Ning and Hang Wang and Yujia Lin and Wenxi Wang and Sahraoui Dhelim and Fadi Farha and Jianguo Ding and Mahmoud Daneshmand},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09673},
  year   = {2021}
}