A Full Dive into Realizing the Edge-enabled Metaverse: Visions, Enabling Technologies,and Challenges
Minrui Xu, Wei Chong Ng, Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Jiawen Kang, Zehui Xiong,, Dusit Niyato, Qiang Yang, Xuemin Sherman Shen, and Chunyan Miao

TL;DR
This paper surveys the current state, challenges, and solutions for realizing a fully immersive, accessible, and interoperable edge-enabled Metaverse, emphasizing communication, computation, and blockchain technologies.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of the architecture, challenges, and cutting-edge solutions for implementing the edge-enabled Metaverse, highlighting future research directions.
Findings
Next-generation communication systems enable immersive interactions.
Cloud-edge-end frameworks address high computation costs.
Blockchain facilitates interoperability and resource management.
Abstract
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 ubiquitous, seamless, and embodied access to the Metaverse, we discuss the communication and networking challenges and survey cutting-edge solutions and…
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Taxonomy
TopicsImage and Video Quality Assessment · Visual Attention and Saliency Detection · Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
