"The metaverse could be the next major computing platform after the internet and mobile," Intel senior vice president Raja Koduri wrote in a blog post. But he sees no prerequisites for its emergence in the near future: "Our computing, storage and network infrastructure today is simply not enough to make this dream come true." For it to become a reality, the power of computers alone needs to be increased at least 1000 times.
Koduri does not even think that we are one step away from the goal. According to him, in order to implement the metaverse, we will need to increase the current computing power of computers at least a thousand times, writes Verge.
The foundation of the metaverse - a virtual space for meetings, conferences, and entertainment of collaboration - will not be programs or even VR headsets, but computers and servers that process a huge amount of data. Perhaps, when it comes to hardware, Intel's opinion can be trusted.
There is no need to look far for examples: the flagship virtual platform Mega - recently introduced by Horizon World - allows no more than twenty users to meet simultaneously in VR. And this despite the fact that they look like animated figures in the style of Roblox. And the most popular multiplayer video games like Fortnite or Battlefield 2042 can play up to 128 players in VR at the same time.
As Koduri notes, so far we cannot even place two people in a truly detailed virtual environment, in which clothes, hair, skin tones must be carefully drawn in real time, plus gestures, voice and much more. It is necessary to establish data transmission with ultra-high bandwidth and extremely low latency. Such technologies simply do not exist yet.
Of course, Intel has its own interest in arguing that we need more and more computers and better quality servers. If the metaverse truly becomes the new Internet, the company's business will take off. However, Koduri explained that hardware alone will not be able to provide a 1000-fold increase in computing power. Due to the limitations described in Moore's Law, in the next five years, we will get a maximum of tenfold increase.
But, in his opinion, this gap can be filled by algorithms and software - neural networks and computing technologies like those that are already used at Intel. In addition, they will reduce the increasing demand for electricity.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt criticized Mark Zuckerberg 's project to merge the virtual world with the real one. And he even called it a threat to humanity. He is convinced that the creation of a meta-world close to the real will lead to a massive departure of millions of people from reality with unpredictable consequences.
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