Dubbed "the successor to the mobile Internet", the concept of the Metaverse has recently exploded in popularity. While there exists lite versions of the Metaverse today, we are still far from realizing the vision of a seamless, shardless, and interoperable Metaverse given the stringent sensing, communication, and computation requirements. Moreover, the birth of the Metaverse comes amid growing privacy concerns among users. In this article, we begin by providing a preliminary definition of the Metaverse. We discuss the architecture of the Metaverse and mainly focus on motivating the convergence of edge intelligence and the infrastructure layer of the Metaverse. We present major edge-based technological developments and their integration to support the Metaverse engine. Then, we present our research attempts through a case study of virtual city development in the Metaverse. Finally, we discuss the open research issues.
翻译:“移动互联网的后继者”的概念最近受到欢迎。虽然今天有“Metafverse”的流利版本,但考虑到严格的感测、通信和计算要求,我们仍然远远没有实现无缝、无缝和互操作的“Meteve”的愿景。此外,“Meteve”的诞生是在用户对隐私日益关切的情况下产生的。在文章中,我们首先对“Meteve”作了初步定义。我们讨论了“Meteve”的架构,主要侧重于促进“Meteve”的边际情报和基础设施层的融合。我们介绍了主要的边际技术发展及其整合,以支持“Metevvers”的引擎。然后,我们通过对“Metoveve”虚拟城市发展的案例研究介绍了我们的研究尝试。最后,我们讨论了开放的研究问题。