The document outlines the architecture of the metaverse, emphasizing the integration of immersive physical-virtual interactions, supported by a metaverse engine and robust infrastructure for scalability and trustworthiness. It discusses the use of technologies like AI, blockchain, XR, and IoT to enhance user experiences and facilitate interactions within a synthesized virtual world. Overall, it highlights the importance of combining real-world data and advanced technologies to create a realistic and interactive metaverse environment.

1. The metaverse system architecture features the
immersive and real-time physical-virtual world
interaction layer supported by the metaverse
Metaverse System Architecture: View 1 Edited by Alex G. Lee
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgeunholee/)
interaction layer supported by the metaverse
engine layer. The supporting metaverse
infrastructure ensures that the metaverse is
scalable, enables ubiquitous access, and is
trustworthy for users
trustworthy for users.
Metaverse Infrastructure Layer:
Communication/Networking, Computation and
Storage that leverage edge intelligence
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Metaverse Engine Layer :
XR (VR/AR/MR), Digital Senses (Haptic), Digital
Twins, AI, Blockchain that obtain input data from
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stakeholder-controlled components. The virtual
world is generated, maintained, and enhanced
with these inputs.
Physical Virtual World Interaction Layer:
Physical-Virtual World Interaction Layer:
Users can experience the virtual world through
interaction; IoTs deployed in the physical world
collect data from the environment; Virtual service
providers develop and maintain the virtual
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worlds; Physical service providers operate the
physical infrastructure.
Source. Realizing the Metaverse with Edge Intelligence: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.01634v1.pdf

2. The metaverse is a synthesized world which is composed
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Metaverse System Architecture: View 2 Edited by Alex G. Lee
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgeunholee/)
of user-controlled avatars, digital things, virtual
environments, and other computer-generated elements,
where humans (represented by avatars) can use their
virtual identity through any smart device to communicate,
collaborate and socialize with each other
collaborate, and socialize with each other.
Physical Infrastructures: The physical world offers
supporting infrastructures (including sensing/control,
communication, computation, and storage infrastructures)
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to the metaverse to support multi-sensory data perception,
transmission, processing, and caching, as well as physical
control, thereby enabling efficient interactions with both the
digital and human worlds.
Metaverse Engine: The metaverse engine uses the big
data from the real world as inputs to generate, maintain,
and update the virtual world via the interactivity, AI, digital
twin and blockchain technologies Particularly with the
twin, and blockchain technologies. Particularly, with the
assistance of XR and HCI techniques, users situated in
physical environments are able to immersively control their
digital avatars in the metaverse via their senses and
bodies for diverse collective and social activities such as
bodies for diverse collective and social activities such as
car racing, dating, and virtual item trading.
Source. A Survey on Metaverse: Fundamentals, Security, and Privacy : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02662.pdf

3. Metaverse System Architecture: View 3 Edited by Alex G. Lee
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexgeunholee/)
The metaverse needs to combine
the virtual world with the real
the virtual world with the real
world, and even the virtual world is
more realistic than the real world.
It has to rely on XR-driven
immersive technologies to
integrate with one or more
technologies, such as edge and
cloud (e.g., super-realism and
l t i t l i t
zero-latency virtual environments
at scale), avatar and user
interactivity (e.g., motion capture
and gesture recognition
seamlessly with XR) artificial
seamlessly with XR), artificial
intelligence and computer vision
for scene understanding between
MR and the metaverse and the
creation of creating digital twins at
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scale, Edge AI together for
privacy-preserving AI
applications in the metaverse.
Source. All One Needs to Know about Metaverse: A Complete Survey on Technological Singularity, Virtual Ecosystem,
and Research Agenda: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.05352.pdf