The Integration of AIGC and the Metaverse: Opening a New Virtual World

With the rapid development of technology, we are gradually entering a new era where the virtual and real worlds intertwine. The Metaverse, as a symbol of this new era, is becoming a highly focused topic. The combination of artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) technology will undoubtedly drive the Metaverse towards higher levels of automation and real-time updates, bringing us a more authentic, diverse, and rich virtual world experience.

The Role of AIGC in the Metaverse

In the Metaverse, this virtual reality environment, AIGC plays a crucial role. It is a visualization output of artificial intelligence learning results, capable of transforming complex data and analytical results into content in the form of graphics, images, text, and more, allowing people to understand and utilize AI's capabilities more intuitively. AIGC can not only generate visual charts or images to help users discover patterns, trends, and insights, but it can also convert AI outputs into language or speech forms, enabling dialogue interaction with users, providing real-time feedback and suggestions.

The Integration of the Metaverse and AIGC Applications

As a virtual world that mirrors the digital twin of the real world, games constitute the underlying logic of the Metaverse. Relying on the combination of gaming technology and AIGC, users will gain a more immersive real-time interactive experience. Through AIGC, virtual items in the Metaverse can be updated in real-time according to the environment and user behavior, and virtual scenes can change over time and events. This dynamism and real-time nature make the Metaverse closer to the real world, making our experiences within it more authentic and enjoyable. At the same time, users can create various virtual elements according to personal needs and preferences using AIGC, making the Metaverse richer, more diverse, and personalized.

A popular mobile game has officially implemented the first AI system for gaming in China this year. This system enables high-level intelligent interaction with NPCs, allowing them to extend conversations on a semantic level based on dialogues with players, and remember these dialogues. When players encounter the NPCs again, they will meet unique NPCs. In the "face sculpting" section, which is favored by players, the game allows users to generate facial models by inputting text, truly achieving personalization and high freedom.

Attempts of AIGC in Game Applications

Taking a popular sandbox game as an example, it encompasses almost all elements of the Metaverse. Players can collect and place various types of blocks to create buildings, tools, weapons, and other items. The online mode has gained global recognition for this game, allowing players to explore, build, collaborate, and fight according to their preferences and creativity.

An AI research team once conducted a study called "VPT (Video PreTraining)". They trained neural networks using a large amount of unlabelled game videos from the internet, while incorporating a small amount of labelled data models, and subsequently fine-tuned the machine's behavior, aiming to enable AI to learn autonomously and create specific tools.

In the game, players need at least 24,000 operations to go from collecting wood to upgrading stone tools and then to mining rare ores. Even skilled players take more than 20 minutes. The total duration of AI-learned game video tutorials is 70,000 hours. After completing the learning, the VPT model successfully learned to make the target tool in the shortest steps, taking even longer than many players.

Looking to the Future

The combination of AIGC and the Metaverse will open up a whole new virtual world for us. In this world, we can experience more virtual scenes, virtual characters, and virtual items, as well as enjoy a higher degree of automation and real-time updates.

This not only brings users a richer experience, but also provides companies with a brand new platform to help them expand brand culture and explore brand value. The future Metaverse will be a more real, diverse, and rich virtual world, and we have reason to look forward to this future full of infinite possibilities.