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CTOnews.com, August 25, Shanghai Urban Digital Transformation leading Group Office announced that the meta-universe comprehensive science and technology and industrial innovation platform, the Joint Research Institute of Meta-Universe and interaction between deficiency and reality, with "virtual-reality interaction" and "virtual-strong-real" as the core direction, was officially established at the first theme activity of Shanghai Urban Digital Transformation experience week.

This is another important academic research institution in the field of meta-universe after the first comprehensive innovation platform of interaction between reality and reality in the country, the Joint Innovation Center of Metasmology and interaction between reality and reality, was officially established in Shanghai in early June this year.

The Shanghai Economic and Information Commission pointed out that the Joint Research Institute of Metasmology and interaction between reality and reality was selected as the Shanghai urban digital transformation and innovation base, marking the birth of the country's first provincial and municipal new metacosmos research and development institution in Shanghai.

According to reports, the academic committee of the institute will be composed of international and domestic academicians and well-known experts, and the expert advisory committee will be composed of heads and experts of the top international and domestic enterprises in meta-cosmos and related fields. for example, the official has hired Professor Zhao Xing of the big data Research Institute of Fudan University and the National Experimental Base for Intelligent Evaluation and Governance as its dean, and Mr. Lu Changqi, the board of Fudan University and director of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as its chief adviser.

It is reported that the institute is jointly founded by first-class industry-university-research institutions such as Fudan University, China Mobile Migu, Tencent Interactive Entertainment, Huawei Technology Co., Ltd., and Epic Games (Unreal engine), as well as relevant institutions of national well-known universities such as Peking University, Renmin University, Zhejiang University and Nanjing University.

CTOnews.com learned that the concept of meta-universe began with the 1992 science fiction Avalanche by American writer Neil Stephenson. In the book, Stephenson depicts a surreal digital space "Metaverse", in which people who are blocked by geographical space can spend their leisure time interacting with each other through their own "avatars", and can control their own income at will.

Xinhua News Agency previously quoted several interviewees as saying that meta-universe, as a carrier of the integration of the virtual world and the real world, contains great opportunities for social, content, game, office and other scene change. it is a new type of Internet application and social form produced by the integration of block chain and other new technologies.

However, today's so-called meta-universe is still in its infancy, and most companies are still in their infancy.

Professor Zhu Jiaming, director of the academic and Technical Committee of the Digital assets Research Institute, once said: the connotation of "meta-universe" is to absorb the achievements of the information revolution (5G / 6G), the Internet revolution (web3.0), the artificial intelligence revolution, and the virtual reality revolution of VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality), MR (hybrid reality), especially game engines. "

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