Integrating Digital Twin and Advanced Intelligent Technologies to Realize the Metaverse

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine

Publication Date

1-1-2022

Abstract

The advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have led to technological advancements in a plethora of domains. Healthcare, education, and smart city services are now enriched with AI capabilities. These technological advancements would not have been realized without the assistance of fast, secure, and fault-tolerant communication media. Traditional processing, communication and storage technologies cannot maintain high levels of scalability and user experience for immersive services. The metaverse is an immersive three-dimensional (3D) virtual world that integrates fantasy and reality into a virtual environment using advanced virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) devices. Such an environment is still being developed and requires extensive research in order for it to be realized to its highest attainable levels. In this article, we discuss some of the key issues required in order to attain realization of metaverse services. We propose a framework that integrates digital twin (DT) with other advanced technologies such as the sixth generation (6G) communication network, blockchain, and AI, to maintain continuous end-to-end metaverse services. This article also outlines requirements for an integrated, DT-enabled metaverse framework and provides a look ahead into the evolving topic.

ISSN

2162-2248

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

First Page

1

Last Page

8

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Metaverse, Artificial intelligence, Three-dimensional displays, Consumer electronics, Digital twins, Blockchains, 6G mobile communication

Indexed in Scopus

no

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository

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