元宇宙应用探索与展望

新一代信息技术的集中爆发,使得整合性技术“元宇宙”成为产业界和学术界瞩目的焦点。元宇宙对于现实世界的发展和影响备受关注。本文从时代背景出发,对元宇宙概念进行概述,围绕元宇宙本质特征与元宇宙发展核心技术(扩展现实、数字孪生、人工智能、区块链等)进行知识梳理,并提供元宇宙技术功能架构;对元宇宙目前主要的应用领域,即技术创新、产业变革、行业升级、虚实交融、智慧城市应用等进行分类综述,指出元宇宙有利于人类社会教育模式创新、生活方式重构和生产效率提高。最后,本文对元宇宙的未来发展方向进行了分析和展望,元宇宙的发展呈现出从社会主要行业产业的场景应用融合向外扩展,再纵向深入发展的趋势。

Exploration and Prospect of Metaverse Application

The concentrated outbreak of the new generation of information technology makes the integrated technology "metaverse" become the focus of the industry and academia. Much attention has been paid to the development and influence of the metaverse on the real world. Starting from the background of the times,the concept of the metaverse is summarized,knowledge combing is carried out around the essential characteristics of metaverse and the core technologies of metaverse development (extended reality,digital twins,artificial intelligence,blockchain,etc.),and the functional framework of the metaverse technology is provided in this article. The main application fields of the metaverse at present,namely,technological innovation,industrial transformation,industrial upgrading,virtual and real integration,smart city application,etc.are classified and summarized to point out that the metaverse is conducive to the innovation of human social education mode,the reconstruction of lifestyle and the improvement of production efficiency. Finally,the future development direction of the metaverse is analyzed and prospected.The development of metaverse shows a trend of expanding outward from the scene application integration of major industries in society and in-depth development in the vertical direction.