In essence, Metaverse itself is not a single new technology, but its development is a gradual and deep process. It needs to integrate artificial intelligence, virtual reality and other new generation of information technologies, gradually construct online three-dimensional space, and finally establish a future social form of virtual and real symbiosis and digital twin corresponding to the real society.
In 2023, Metaverse development will show new highlights
As is known to all, in 2023, the Metaverse investment and financing boom has gradually reached a new height due to the influence of technological progress, the improvement of Metaverse concept cognition and related policy support.
Data show that in the first half of the year, 110 investment and financing events occurred in domestic Metaverse infrastructure sector, accounting for 46.4% of the total financing number in the year, and 74 investment and financing events occurred in Metaverse hardware sector, accounting for 31.2% of the total investment and financing events in the year.
There were 25 investment and financing events in the software sector, accounting for 10.5% of the total investment and financing in the year, and 28 investment and financing events occurred in the scenario application sector, accounting for 11.8% of the total investment and financing in the year.
At present, the national Metaverse investment market is mainly concentrated in the following four areas: first, the underlying technologies such as physics engine, cloud native, rendering / graphics algorithms, interactive technology, optics and display components. The second is hardware equipment, mainly more perfect consumer XR equipment.
Third, application tools such as digital man, digital twin, NFT digital collection, AI generated content, etc. Fourth, some typical application scenarios such as virtual idol, digital assistant, digital asset platform, virtual conference, smart city, education and training.
In addition, many local governments have set up Metaverse industry funds, which has brought greater support to the Metaverse industry in terms of financial funds. According to incomplete statistics, up to now, 13 localities will set up Metaverse-related industrial funds, including Shanghai, Beijing and Zhengzhou, with a total fund size of nearly 90 billion yuan.
It should be noted that the establishment of Metaverse industry fund can bring important development opportunities and various impacts to the Metaverse industry, which is conducive to the rapid development and growth of the industry. Meanwhile, the Metaverse wave has accelerated the growth process of a number of segmented enterprises.
WiMi Hoologram Cloud AI + XR technology integration
At present, the new generation of digital technology is booming, and the use of Metaverse enables social production to integrate more resources. Data show that Metaverse holographic AR first WiMi Hoologram Cloud(NASDAQ: WIMI), creating AI + XR strategy, has made stage progress in the application of Metaverse education, marketing, manufacturing, exhibition and other vertical industries, gradually showing a trend of expanding to multi-fields and multi-industries, and the industry valuation level continues to rise.
As a new digital carrier and a new business model, Metaverse has the characteristics of borderless, interactive and open. With its fast speed, wide range and personalized cloud communication characteristics, it has become the trend of “black technology” enabling large-scale exhibitions. According to the introduction, WiMi Hoologram Cloud will Metaverse widely empower the museum exhibition, launched AR photography and restoration, AR narrator and virtual digital people and other wonderful virtual scenes and activities, through the “online + offline” scene, to provide tourists with deep participation of immersive experience.
At the same time, the immersion provided by augmented reality and virtual reality, as the basis of Metaverse landing, continues to increase the attention of the market. In this regard, WiMi Hoologram Cloud will continue to expand the application of online immersive social networking, immersive content production tools, digital products online trading platforms and other virtual reality scenarios, and continue to deepen and expand the application of industrial Metaverse, consumer Metaverse, social Metaverse, game Metaverse and other applications in various fields. For example, in order to build industrial Metaverse, WiMi Hoologram Cloud is committed to deeply integrating Metaverse-related technologies such as XR, AI, IoT, cloud computing, and digital twin with the real industrial economy, to form a new infrastructure, application mode and industrial ecology, effectively reducing costs and improving production efficiency.
Anchoring the new track of Metaverse economy, WiMi Hoologram Cloud gives full play to its own resource advantages and actively explores and distributes the Metaverse industry. Looking into the future, WiMi Hoologram Cloud assumes that in addition to providing users with a more realistic virtual environment and an unprecedented immersive experience, the company also plans to innovate and work with partners to build a new Metaverse infrastructure integrating computing power, algorithms and development platforms. While further consolidating the base of the technology, we need to release the potential of industrial applications, which may create unprecedented business value for enterprises.
To sum up
From virtual to reality, from now to the future. Using the Metaverse virtual world, combined with augmented reality technology, will continuously enrich people’s perception, improve the real experience, and extend people’s creativity and more possibilities. Of course, with the vigorous development of Metaverse, in the long run, the rational and orderly development of Metaverse still needs the cooperation of various industries and fields as well as the continuous exploration and efforts of all parties. But the day has already accelerated.
