Fusing Blockchain and AI with Metaverse: A Survey

Yang, Qinglin; Zhao, Yetong; Huang, Huawei; Xiong, Zehui; Kang, Jiawen; Zheng, Zibin

doi:10.48550/arxiv.2201.03201

“…Given the recent advancements of AI, the study in [20] discusses how AI can play a part in developing the Metaverse, e.g., in terms of natural language processing to create intelligent chatbots or machine vision to allow AR/VR devices to effectively analyze and understand the user environment. The study in [21] discusses how convergence of AI and blockchain can facilitate service delivery in the Metaverse. For example, AI can be used to train virtual characters that populate the Metaverse, whereas the blockchain can be used to facilitate transactions within the Metaverse.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Full Dive into Realizing the Edge-enabled Metaverse: Visions, Enabling Technologies,and Challenges

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Ng²,

Lim³

et al. 2022

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Dubbed "the successor to the mobile Internet", the concept of the Metaverse has grown in popularity. While there exist lite versions of the Metaverse today, they are still far from realizing the full vision of an immersive, embodied, and interoperable Metaverse. Without addressing the issues of implementation from the communication and networking, as well as computation perspectives, the Metaverse is difficult to succeed the Internet, especially in terms of its accessibility to billions of users today. In this survey, we focus on the edge-enabled Metaverse to realize its ultimate vision. We first provide readers with a succinct tutorial of the Metaverse, an introduction to the architecture, as well as current developments. To enable the ubiquitous, seamless, and embodied access to the Metaverse, we discuss the communication and networking challenges and survey cutting-edge solutions and concepts that leverage next-generation communication systems for users to be telepresent and teleoperate in the Metaverse. Moreover, given the high computation costs required, e.g., to render immersive 3D worlds and run data hungry artificial intelligence (AI) driven applications, we discuss the computation challenges and cloud-edge-end computation framework driven solutions to realize the Metaverse on resource-constrained edge devices. Next, we explore how blockchain technologies can aid in the interoperable development of the Metaverse, not just in terms of empowering the economic circulation of virtual usergenerated contents, but also to manage physical edge resources in a decentralized, transparent, and tamper-proof manner. Finally, we discuss the future research directions towards realizing the true vision of the edge-enabled Metaverse.

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“…Lee et al [6] review and examine eight fundamental technologies to build up the metaverse as well as its opportunities from six user-centric factors. Yang et al [1] investigate the potential of AI and blockchain technologies for future metaverse construction. Ning et al [5] present a survey of the development status of metaverse in terms of national policies, industrial projects, infrastructures, supporting technologies, VR, and social metaverse.…”

Section: B Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…5) AI: AI technology acts as the "brain" of metaverse which empowers personalized metaverse services (e.g., vivid and customized avatar creation), massive metaverse scene creation and rendering, multilingual support in the metaverse by learning from historical experience via big data inference [1]. Moreover, AI enables the smart interaction (e.g., smart shopping guider and user movement prediction) between user and avatar/NPC (non-player character) via intelligent decision-making.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The metaverse integrates a variety of emerging technologies [1], [6], [8]. In particular, digital twin produces a mirror image of the real world, VR and augmented reality (AR) provide immersive 3D experience, 5G and beyond offers ultra-high reliable and ultra-low latency connections for massive metaverse devices, wearable sensors and brain-computer interface (BCI) enable user/avatar interaction in the metaverse, artificial intelligence (AI) enables the large-scale metaverse creation and rendering, and blockchain and non-fungible token (NFT) play an important role in determining authentic rights for metaverse assets [1]. Currently, with the popularity of smart devices and the maturity of enabling technologies, the metaverse is stepping out of its infancy into an upcoming reality in the near future.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Survey on Metaverse: Fundamentals, Security, and Privacy

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Zhou²,

Zhang³

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<div>Metaverse, as an evolving paradigm of the next-generation Internet, aims to build a fully immersive, hyper spatiotemporal, and self-sustaining virtual shared space for humans to play, work, and socialize. Driven by recent advances in emerging technologies such as extended reality, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, metaverse is stepping from the science fiction to an upcoming reality. However, severe privacy invasions and security breaches (inherited from underlying technologies or emerged in the new digital ecology) of metaverse can impede its wide deployment. At the same time, a series of fundamental challenges (e.g., scalability and interoperability) can arise in metaverse security provisioning owing to the intrinsic characteristics of metaverse, such as immersive realism, hyper spatiotemporality, sustainability, and heterogeneity.</div><div>In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of the fundamentals, security, and privacy of metaverse.</div><div>Specifically, we first investigate a novel distributed metaverse architecture and its key characteristics with ternary-world interactions. Then, we discuss the security and privacy threats, present the critical challenges of metaverse systems, and review the state-of-the-art countermeasures. Finally, we draw open research directions for building future metaverse systems.</div>

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“…The metaverse, literally a combination of the prefix "meta" (meaning transcendence) and the suffix "verse" (shorthand for universe), is a computer-generated world with a consistent value system and an independent economic system linked to the physical world [1]. The term metaverse was created by Neil Stephenson in his science fiction novel named Snow Crash in 1992.…”

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A Survey on Metaverse: Fundamentals, Security, and Privacy

wang¹,

Zhou²,

Zhang³

et al. 2022

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<div>Metaverse, as an evolving paradigm of the next-generation Internet, aims to build a fully immersive, hyper spatiotemporal, and self-sustaining virtual shared space for humans to play, work, and socialize. Driven by recent advances in emerging technologies such as extended reality, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, metaverse is stepping from the science fiction to an upcoming reality. However, severe privacy invasions and security breaches (inherited from underlying technologies or emerged in the new digital ecology) of metaverse can impede its wide deployment. At the same time, a series of fundamental challenges (e.g., scalability and interoperability) can arise in metaverse security provisioning owing to the intrinsic characteristics of metaverse, such as immersive realism, hyper spatiotemporality, sustainability, and heterogeneity.</div><div>In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of the fundamentals, security, and privacy of metaverse.</div><div>Specifically, we first investigate a novel distributed metaverse architecture and its key characteristics with ternary-world interactions. Then, we discuss the security and privacy threats, present the critical challenges of metaverse systems, and review the state-of-the-art countermeasures. Finally, we draw open research directions for building future metaverse systems.</div>

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Fusing Blockchain and AI with Metaverse: A Survey

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