On the morning of November 10th, the Shenzhen Station of the 2022 Global Metaverse Conference was officially launched at the Renaissance Shenzhen Bay Hotel. The well-known digital economy expert, former vice minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology, member of the Education, Science, Culture and Health Committee of the 11th National People's Congress and the "Watcher" of Metaverse Development "Author" Wu Zhongze delivered a video opening speech and delivered a speech, saying that the construction of the global metaverse is in full swing, boosting the digital economy to a new stage of development.
World Metaverse Conference Launching Ceremony
It is understood that the purpose of holding this Yuan Universe Conference is to bring together the government, industry, academia, research, and use to jointly promote digital industrialization and digital economic development, cooperate with Shenzhen's local development policies, and bring together the advantages of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area resources, build metaverse industrial clusters, and inject new elements of digital upgrade and new momentum of economic development into Shenzhen. Shenzhen Station is the second stop of the Global Metaverse Conference in China after the Shanghai Station. The follow-up conference party plans to hold Metaverse Conferences in other cities one after another, and establish conferences in international cities such as Spain, Belgium, Germany, France, Singapore, and South Korea. branch venue.
Wu Zhongze, former vice minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology
Wu Zhongze's video speech this time is themed "Cultivate the new track of the original universe and strengthen the new momentum of the digital economy", detailing the national "14th Five-Year Plan" development plan that clearly proposes smart manufacturing, smart education, smart medical care, and smart cultural tourism. , smart communities, and smart government digital application scenarios, and pointed out: to promote the high-quality development of the digital economy. Technology is the foundation, scene is king. The deep integration of Metaverse and these application scenarios will provide new growth space, key focus and important support for creating new advantages of the digital economy and strengthening the new engine of economic development.
He said that in order to better promote the development of the Metaverse industry, in November 2021, he and President Ni Jianzhong jointly unveiled the Metaverse Industry Working Committee for the China Mobile Communications Federation in Beijing, and issued the Metaverse Industry Declaration, which is the foundation for the Metaverse industry. Cosmic technology and ecological development have built the first domestic exchange and cooperation platform. Over the past year, the Metaverse Industry Working Committee has carried out a series of activities to introduce leaders, improve quality development, gather points to form chains, and expand chains into groups. The new industrial ecology has gradually become a trend, creating a new highland for the "Metaverse +" industry, and the exchange An impressive scorecard came out.
"New industries, new formats, and new models derived from digital applications will be full of opportunities, and everyone needs to actively embrace them." Wu Zhongze suggested that the country carry out industrial planning and layout for the Metaverse, and explore the establishment of industrial standards and systems. Multi-departments jointly carry out innovative application demonstrations of "Metaverse +" vertical scene integration and empowerment, focusing on industry, commerce, education, medical care, cultural tourism and other fields, and strive to create a number of benchmark products and services that lead the industry. A batch of unique "Metaverse" industrial innovation parks.
Open source sharing, mutual reference, and sequential development, constantly expanding the demonstration and empowerment effect
"Promote the development of new terminals that deepen perception and interaction and the construction of systematic virtual content. Cultivate a group of innovative head enterprises and 'chain master enterprises' with international competitiveness in the metaverse industry. Gather a group of masters of core technologies and high-energy levels. High-growth, specialized and new enterprises will take advantage of their market demand, integrated innovation, and organizational platform to promote the integration and innovation of the upstream and downstream of the Metaverse industrial chain, as well as the integration and innovation of large and medium-sized enterprises," Wu Zhongze emphasized, "The metaverse is deeply integrated with the real economy. In the end, it will bring more considerable market linkage and superposition, multiplication, and amplification effects, and drive digital technology and digital industries to realize leaps and bounds. Which country takes the lead in developing the metaverse and seizes the metaverse highland as soon as possible, which country is more likely Lead the development of the digital economy and grasp the voice and initiative of the next-generation Internet."
Studies have shown that the metaverse can create an output value worth at least US$8 trillion just by integrating social media, streaming media, and gaming platforms. "Crowd intelligence empowerment and cross-border integration" is the basic feature of Metaverse, especially when it complements the comprehensive scene-driven artificial intelligence. Through open source sharing, mutual reference, and sequential development, Metaverse has broad development space and great potential. It may become an important support and a key new track for the development of the digital economy in the future.
As Goldman Sachs analysts wrote in a December report: "Big tech companies now see augmented reality (AR) as the next computing platform, which seems like a reasonable shift in consumption patterns and a new industry leader." . Goldman Sachs estimates that as much as $1.35 trillion will be spent on developing related metaverse technologies over the next few years. It is undeniable that the new crown epidemic has accelerated the online migration of people's work and life scenes. Under the catalysis of the Internet and technology, the explosion of the Metaverse may have its inevitable logic.
The global metaverse is still in its infancy, and many key technologies need to be broken through
As a collection of brand-new technologies, the requirements put forward by the metaverse are very "harsh". For example, in terms of bandwidth, 5G bandwidth can provide support for scenarios such as pure virtual reality and augmented reality, but if it involves high-end applications such as mixed reality, holographic images, and sensory interconnection, 5G is powerless.
In fact, the metaverse may carry thousands of concurrent data streams at the same time, and the data throughput may reach the order of terabytes, which can only be satisfied by 6G in the future.
Wu Zhongze believes: "Our country must learn the lesson that the main infrastructure and core software and hardware systems of the first generation of the Internet are severely constrained by others, and build a metaverse 'hard core' technology system that keeps up with the world and leads the future, and strives to realize the next-generation Internet. Overtaking on curves,” he emphasized, “We must always adhere to high-level technological self-reliance, realize independent control of key technologies, and grasp the right to speak and take the initiative in the future development of metaverse industries.”
He recommends:
First, we must improve the new national system under the conditions of the socialist market economy and strengthen the national strategic scientific and technological strength. (National laboratories, national scientific research institutions, high-level research universities, technology leaders)
Second, we must grasp the development logic of the metaverse: "demand traction, market drive", strengthen the dominant position of enterprises in technological innovation, and fully stimulate the imagination and creativity of multiple market entities.
Third, we must give full play to the basic research advantages of universities and scientific research institutes, focus on improving the metaverse scientific and technological innovation system that deeply integrates technology, education, industry, and finance, and jointly create a good development ecology.
In addition, he also suggested that relevant departments should set up a metaverse science and technology special project, deploy a batch of metaverse strategic and reserve technology research and development projects in a forward-looking manner, and focus on tackling key problems including terminal system-level chips, space computing, holographic light field, brain-computer interface, interactive Algorithms, perceptual displays, image engines, dynamic modeling, 3D environment generation, etc., are the basic underlying technologies of the Metaverse. At the same time, cultivate the future network ecology (5G+, 6G, satellite Internet, Wifi7, IPV6, etc.), at the same time, accelerate the development of artificial intelligence as a service, and comprehensively promote the industrialization and large-scale application of artificial intelligence. Develop blockchain applications, explore Web3.0 technology research and development and ecological development, and promote distributed storage. Integrated applications such as trusted authentication, privacy computing, and smart contracts have laid a solid foundation for the development of the Metaverse.
In the end, Wu Zhongze said: "The 2022 Global Metaverse Conference is just a new beginning. The era of the Metaverse has arrived. We must seize the opportunity for the development of the Metaverse and use a higher position, stricter measures, and more practical measures We will go all out to grasp the opportunities and break the ice in frontier fields related to the Metaverse, such as virtual reality, new cloud computing and edge computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain.”
(Text/Yan Lei)