Integrating Digital Twin and Advanced Intelligent Technologies to Realize the Metaverse
This addresses the need for scalable and high-quality metaverse environments in domains like healthcare and education, but it is incremental as it builds on existing technologies without new breakthroughs.
The paper tackles the challenge of realizing immersive metaverse services by proposing a framework that integrates digital twin with 6G, blockchain, and AI to maintain continuous end-to-end services, though no concrete results or numbers are provided.
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.