CoinWorld reports:
AIGC has deeply infiltrated various aspects of human life. Recently, Meta’s release of the 3D asset generation model, Meta 3D Gen, has garnered global attention. This model can generate high-quality 3D assets surpassing industry standards within one minute based on textual descriptions, achieving efficiency leaps of 3 to 60 times compared to similar systems. It offers a new approach to addressing issues such as high content costs and inconsistent material quality in the metaverse construction process. This technology demonstrates significant application prospects in fields such as game development, architectural visualization, and VR/MR, serving as a new engine to accelerate the development of the metaverse.
Simultaneously, the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), one of the highest-level AI industry conferences globally, grandly opened in Shanghai on July 4th. Premier Li Keqiang attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. The conference set historical records in terms of exhibition scale, number of participating companies, highlights exhibited, and number of debut products. As artificial intelligence becomes the focus of attention across various sectors, questions arise: What exactly is AI Generated Content (AIGC) based on artificial intelligence, and how will it drive leaps in metaverse development?
What is AIGC
AIGC, short for “AI Generated Content,” refers to content generated by AI through trained models and extensive data learning. AI can generate content such as articles, images, audio, and videos based on user input conditions or instructions. Its characteristics include automated production and high efficiency, distinguishing it significantly from previous internet content production modes like PGC (Professional Generated Content) and UGC (User Generated Content).
The technology of AIGC can be categorized into two major types: rule-based AIGC technology and machine learning-based AIGC technology. The former utilizes expert systems and knowledge bases within AI technology to generate content through a series of rules, ensuring accuracy but at higher costs. The latter employs machine learning and deep learning algorithms to simulate and learn from extensive language data, resulting in natural and fluent content generation, albeit requiring substantial language resources and computational power.
The Relationship Between Metaverse and AIGC: Scenarios and Tools
AIGC is an indispensable technological force and tool for constructing and enriching the metaverse, which in turn will be one of its crucial landing scenarios. The symbiotic relationship between the two outlines the blueprint for the future digital life. AIGC continuously creates a diverse range of virtual content—ranging from images and videos to 3D models—thereby lowering content creation costs and barriers. This significantly enhances the immersion and interactivity of the metaverse, constructing a fully immersive space and rapidly advancing the metaverse’s widespread development, continually expanding its functional boundaries.
How AIGC Empowers the Metaverse
1) Reducing metaverse construction costs and achieving efficient, diversified content generation
The metaverse integrates numerous technologies into a comprehensive technological concept. However, to build a content-rich virtual world, traditional human creative models face limitations when confronted with massive content demands. AIGC’s efficient content generation capabilities significantly shorten the process from creative conception to materialization. It can swiftly and accurately generate high-quality 3D models, scenes, props, and virtual characters, effectively solving the metaverse’s content creation bottleneck. This not only accelerates the speed and quantity of content generation but also ensures its quality and diversity.
AIGC acts as the “content factory” of the metaverse, continuously injecting fresh blood into the virtual world, driving it towards a more prosperous and diverse direction.
2) Addressing personalized customization needs, enriching the metaverse content ecosystem
In the metaverse, content innovation and personalized services are critical to enhancing user experience. AIGC’s advanced technologies such as natural language processing, computer vision, and image generation provide diverse environmental customization services. Users can generate realistic cityscapes, fantastical forests, or unique buildings based on their personalized needs, greatly enriching the metaverse’s content ecosystem.
Moreover, in NPC shaping, AIGC continuously optimizes algorithms based on user preferences and integrates technological innovations to generate more realistic and highly interactive personalized virtual characters. These NPCs not only understand and generate natural language but also possess common sense reasoning, logical computation, and emotional analysis capabilities, making their behaviors more akin to real humans. Additionally, users can directly control virtual characters through voice commands, manipulate scene elements, and add new dimensions to the metaverse experience.
3) Promoting social development in the metaverse
For a long time, the dominant position in the social field seemed firmly occupied by mature platforms such as WeChat, Weibo, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Meta, WhatsApp, and Instagram internationally, with mature product advantages clearly outweighing new entries. However, the rise of AIGC technology has brought social platforms back to the starting line, breaking traditional boundaries in social content creation and distribution. This compels the industry and capital markets to re-examine the future development potential of social platforms. Specifically, in the development of AIGC metaverse social fields, three significant trends are evident:
1) Personalized content generation: In the virtual social space of the metaverse, AIGC technology can accurately capture and analyze users’ social behavior patterns and preferences, achieving personalized customization and recommendations of social content. For example, AI algorithms based on users’ browsing and interaction records can intelligently recommend personalized articles, short videos, or audio content, making social experiences more intimate and personalized.
2) Construction of virtual social scenes: AIGC technology can provide virtual communication spaces such as VR chat rooms in the metaverse, enhancing the interactivity and fun of social interaction through immersive experiences. Users can host parties, participate in games, or even collaborate remotely in the virtual world, transcending the limitations of physical space and achieving broader social connections.
3) Global barrier-free communication: The natural language processing and real-time translation functions in AIGC technology break language barriers, promoting barrier-free communication worldwide. Users can communicate in real-time with friends from around the world without worrying about language differences.
4) Strengthening the integration of metaverse and real-world data
The rapid development of AIGC technology profoundly impacts and changes the construction and application of the metaverse, breaking virtual boundaries and seamlessly connecting digital assets with real-world value.
1) In the field of virtual goods and real-world transactions, blockchain technology can link virtual goods with the real economy.
2) In the education sector, immersive learning can be integrated with real-world curriculum progress and credit certification systems, achieving seamless online and offline education connections.
3) In urban planning, AIGC technology can rapidly generate high-precision digital twin models based on actual city data, providing comprehensive decision support for city managers. Additionally, urban planning schemes in the metaverse can be fed back in real-time to guide the construction and transformation of physical cities.
The rapid development of AIGC significantly strengthens the integration of the metaverse with the real world, providing more development and innovation space for enterprises and individuals, and laying a solid foundation for constructing a smarter, more efficient, and sustainable future society.
As an emerging track of virtual and physical integration, the metaverse has become an important “interface” between digital technology, the real world, and the physical economy. Despite experiencing cooling and sedimentation, with continuous policy enhancements domestically, the industry’s enthusiasm for metaverse development is gradually returning to rationality, presenting a practical opportunity to drive industry development. In the future, we have reason to believe that AIGC will work hand in hand with the metaverse industry to jointly create a new world full of infinite possibilities.
