Metaverse: Requirements, Architecture, Standards, Status, Challenges, and Perspectives

TL;DR

This paper reviews the foundational aspects of the Metaverse, including its architecture, standards, current status, challenges like AI integration and security, and future perspectives, aiming to guide its development and deployment.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of Metaverse requirements, architecture, standards, and discusses recent challenges and solutions for its advancement.

Findings

Proposed a unified Metaverse architecture and standards

Identified key challenges such as AI integration and security

Outlined future perspectives and potential solutions

Abstract

The Metaverse is driving the next wave of innovation for new opportunities by replacing the digital world (Internet) with the virtual world through a single, shared, immersive, persistent 3D virtual space. In this paper, we present requirements, architecture, standards, challenges, and solutions for Metaverse. Specifically, we provide Metaverse architecture and requirements, and different standards for Metaverse which serve as the basis for the development and deployment. Moreover, we present recent status, challenges such as integration of AI and Metaverse, security and privacy in Metaverse, etc., and perspectives and solutions.