The Metaverse is still under discussion and will surely be for several years because it is a new paradigm of accessing digital information using emerging and other technologies that do not even exist today. Consequently, there are different approaches to describing the components of the Metaverse. For instance, Tan Ping, the person in charge of XR Lab at the Chinese company Alibaba, makes a model heavily based on visual inputs by dividing the Metaverse into four layers: L1 (holographic construction), L2 (holographic simulation), L3 (virtual and real fusion), and L4 (virtual and real linkage).
However, owing to the interdisciplinary nature of the Metaverse, we prefer the model described in Figure 5.1, which ...
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