1992 Avalanche, a novel by American science fiction writer Neil Stevenson, goes on sale. What he did not expect was that the book’s vision of “wearing headphones and eyeglasses to connect a terminal and being able to enter a computer-simulated virtual space parallel to the real world” would become a popular new outlet in today’s market 20 years later.
Now that 2021 is the first year of the universe and 2022 has arrived, we see the beginning of a new era.
What is the meta-universe? Literally, “Metaverse” is composed of “Meta Transcendence” and “Verse universe”, which is a concept and does not refer to a particular product or app.
Previously, renowned venture capitalist Matthew Bauer proposed a meta-cosmic framework containingEight technology stacks:
It can be seen that technological strength will become a key link in the competition of the future meta-universe. According to this, Gitee planet selected some recent updated projects involving the “metasverse technology stack” for everyone to learn, reference and discussion.
1️ artificial life
Author: DrinkJavA2
Open Source license: Apache 2.0
Project address: gitee.com/drinkjava2/…
Project description: Artificial Life is a Java project and an artificial life experiment project. The technical architecture is derived from an artificial brain model proposed in 2002, which is divided into Application, Env and Frog modules. The project starts and closes basic services through the Application module. The Env module is used to build virtual space to simulate biological living areas. With the “brain evolution”, virtual life becomes increasingly complex, and the ultimate goal is to create a simulated life with “self-conscious expression”.
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2 ️ ⃣ ZStack
Author: Zstackio
Open Source license: Apache-2.0
Project address: gitee.com/zstackio/zs…
Project Introduction: The meta-universe has a high requirement for computing power. Cloud computing and edge computing can promote the development of computing power to a certain extent. ZStack is a productized open source IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) software, which is a new generation of IT infrastructure cloud platform based on hyper-converged architecture. It is designed for intelligent data centers and uses comprehensive apis to centrally manage data center resources, including computing, storage, and network resources, providing easy and convenient environment construction.
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3 ️ ⃣ Liuguang
Author: UMU
Open Source license: Apache-2.0
Project address: gitee.com/umu618/liug…
Project introduction: The meta-universe is a new force, and cloud games that bring virtual reality experience become the most likely application to enter this virtual world. Liuguang, also known as Lvguang Cloud Game Engine, is a set of technologies developed by Jinshan Cloud Edge Computing team to serve the cloud game scene. This is a cloud-based technology for ordinary games, divided into a server engine and a client engine. Lvguang is still in the development stage, it has opened source the most complex server engine, and will open source after the client is completed.
Project Information:
4️ self-american artificial intelligence system
Project author: Ke Yi Chuangxiang
Open Source License: GPL-3.0
Project address: gitee.com/kxdev/zimei…
Project Introduction: Internet of Things technology is the link between the “real universe” and the “virtual meta-universe”, which is the key to enhancing the immersive experience of the meta-universe. Since beauty is an artificial intelligence system based on raspberry pie, Python, HTML, PHP, WeChat small programs make a iot of artificial intelligence system, the system has been implemented: speech awakened, speech recognition, speech synthesis, the human body detection, face recognition, face contrast, intelligent interaction, plug-in function extension, etc. A full range of interactive function of artificial intelligence.
Project Presentation:
5 ️ ⃣ FacialExpressionRecognition
Project author: Zhou Xiansen is a vegetarian
Open Source License: GPL-3.0
Project address: gitee.com/luanshiyiny…
Project Introduction: CicC research report points out that face recognition technology is the core technology of VR social meta-universe. FacialExpressionRecognition is a facial expression recognition system source code. The project uses classical convolutional neural network. The model construction mainly refers to several papers of CVPR in 2018 and the design of Google’s Going Deeper to identify facial expression features, such as happy, sad, angry, neutral, etc. Based on the traditional face feature extraction methods such as Gabor and LBP, the depth model has a remarkable effect. The model is currently evaluated on three facial expression recognition datasets, FER2013, JAFFE and CK+.
The Demo shows:
Said in the last
2021, the metasverse is undoubtedly the hottest scene. As the second largest code hosting platform in the world, Gitee has also seen the birth of open source projects with a futuristic feel. Maybe some projects are not yet mature, or maybe some projects don’t feel they need to be categorized into the meta-universe category. Is this kind of classification a bit like “the meta-universe is a basket, you can fit everything into it”?
In fact, what we see at first glance through these projects is the embodiment of the technology stack and the initial appearance of the future development and application of the metasexes in a world view that is not yet formed or even clearly defined. More importantly, if someone can touch the future through these technology stacks, the future can be understood by more people. Then, this virtual world view is very likely to become real through some interface, a built model. This requires technological progress, time and more mature understanding.
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