A Survey on Metaverse: the State-of-the-art, Technologies, Applications, and Challenges

TL;DR

This survey reviews the current state, underlying technologies, applications, and challenges of the Metaverse, highlighting its multi-technology integration, social aspects, and hyper spatiotemporal features.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of Metaverse development, including technical frameworks, application areas, and challenges, serving as a foundational reference for future research.

Findings

Metaverse integrates multiple emerging technologies.

Key application areas include social interaction and virtual environments.

Challenges involve technological, social, and management issues.

Abstract

Metaverse is a new type of Internet application and social form that integrates a variety of new technologies. It has the characteristics of multi-technology, sociality, and hyper spatiotemporality. This paper introduces the development status of Metaverse, from the five perspectives of network infrastructure, management technology, basic common technology, virtual reality object connection, and virtual reality convergence, it introduces the technical framework of Metaverse. This paper also introduces the nature of Metaverse's social and hyper spatiotemporality, and discusses the first application areas of Metaverse and some of the problems and challenges it may face.