Enabling Meta­verse (EMETA)

The con­cept of Meta­verse has grown in pop­u­lar­i­ty and it is expect­ed to offer an exten­sive new busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ty for the ICT (Infor­ma­tion and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Tech­nol­o­gy) indus­try. Meta­verse inte­grates seam­less­ly vir­tu­al and phys­i­cal liv­ing spaces by enabling con­trol of phys­i­cal space resources from vir­tu­al space, uti­liza­tion of vir­tu­al space resources from phys­i­cal space and shar­ing of the same experiences through vir­tu­al and phys­i­cal par­tic­i­pa­tion. Gen­er­al goal of EMETA (Enabling Meta­verse) project is to improve under­stand­ing about the prac­ti­cal Meta­verse ICT require­ments, devel­op 5G Evolution/Advanced based com­mu­ni­ca­tion and com­put­ing, real-time mul­ti-user 3D Dig­i­tal Twin, AR/VR/XR (Aug­ment­ed Reality/Virtual Reality/eXtended Real­i­ty) and blockchain tech­nolo­gies and solu­tions for Meta­verse key fea­tures. The project will also imple­ment test envi­ron­ments and PoCs (Proof-of-Con­cept) which demon­strate the con­trol and uti­liza­tion of smart build­ing resources and facil­i­ties as well as enable col­lab­o­ra­tion between users and envi­ron­ments both in phys­i­cal and vir­tu­al spaces.¨

The project starts with the spec­i­fi­ca­tion of Meta­verse key fea­tures and use cas­es, fol­lowed by the col­lec­tion and analy­sis of ICT require­ments. Sys­tem archi­tec­ture spec­i­fi­ca­tion will be based on the iden­ti­fied fea­tures and require­ments analy­sis, and includes descrip­tions of the key func­tion­al units and main inter­faces between them. After that the project work will focus on R&D relat­ed to key tech­nolo­gies and build­ing blocks of Meta­verse and spec­i­fied use cas­es. Final­ly, the uti­lized test envi­ron­ments will be inte­grat­ed and PoCs for the use cas­es will be imple­ment­ed and test­ed. Project exe­cu­tion is based on an iter­a­tive approach: spec­i­fi­ca­tion, R&D on key tech­nolo­gies and exper­i­men­ta­tion work will all include three iter­a­tions.

www.emeta.fi

The project is co-fund­ed by the Euro­pean Union.