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Integrating Digital Twin and Advanced Intelligent Technologies to Realize the Metaverse
IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
  • Moayad Aloqaily, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
  • Ouns Bouachir, Kuwait College of Science & Technology
  • Fakhri Karray, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
  • Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, Zayed University
  • Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa
Document Type
Article
Abstract

The advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have led to technological advancements in a plethora of domains. Healthcare, education, and smart city services are now enriched with AI capabilities. These technological advancements would not have been realized without the assistance of fast, secure, and fault-tolerant communication media. Traditional processing, communication and storage technologies cannot maintain high levels of scalability and user experience for immersive services. The metaverse is an immersive three-dimensional (3D) virtual world that integrates fantasy and reality into a virtual environment using advanced virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) devices. Such an environment is still being developed and requires extensive research in order for it to be realized to its highest attainable levels. In this article, we discuss some of the key issues required in order to attain realization of metaverse services. We propose a framework that integrates digital twin (DT) with other advanced technologies such as the sixth generation (6G) communication network, blockchain, and AI, to maintain continuous end-to-end metaverse services. This article also outlines requirements for an integrated, DT-enabled metaverse framework and provides a look ahead into the evolving topic.

DOI
10.1109/MCE.2022.3212570
Publication Date
10-10-2022
Keywords
  • 6G mobile communication,
  • Artificial intelligence,
  • Blockchains,
  • Consumer electronics,
  • Digital twins,
  • Metaverse,
  • Three-dimensional displays
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Citation Information
M. Aloqaily, O. Bouachir, F. Karray, I. A. Ridhawi and A. E. Saddik, "Integrating Digital Twin and Advanced Intelligent Technologies to Realize the Metaverse," in IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, pp. 1-8, 2022, doi: 10.1109/MCE.2022.3212570.