CoinNet reports:
AIGC has deeply penetrated into 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 a minute based on textual descriptions, achieving efficiency leaps of 3 to 60 times compared to similar systems. It offers a new pathway to address challenges such as high content costs and uneven material quality in the metaverse construction process. This technology shows immense application prospects in fields like game development, architectural visualization, and VR/MR, promising to accelerate the development of the metaverse as a new engine.
Simultaneously, the 2024 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, one of the world’s most prestigious AI industry events, grandly opened in Shanghai on July 4th. Premier Li Keqiang attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech, marking record highs in exhibition scale, participating companies, highlight exhibits, and new product launches. As artificial intelligence becomes a focal point across society, questions arise: What exactly is AIGC based on AI, and how will it drive breakthroughs 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 produce 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 methods like PGC (Professional Generated Content) and UGC (User Generated Content).
AIGC Technologies:
AIGC technologies can be categorized into rule-based and machine learning-based approaches. The former uses expert systems and knowledge bases in AI to generate content by writing a series of rules, ensuring accurate content creation albeit at higher costs. The latter leverages machine learning and deep learning algorithms to simulate and learn from vast language data, creating natural and fluent content, albeit requiring substantial linguistic and computational resources.
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 deployment scenarios. Together, they outline the blueprint for the future digital life. AIGC continuously creates diverse virtual content—from images and videos to 3D models—lowering content creation costs and barriers, enhancing the metaverse’s immersion and interactivity, and rapidly promoting its development and expanding its functional boundaries.
How AIGC Empowers the Metaverse:
1) Lowering metaverse construction costs, achieving efficient multi-content generation:
The metaverse amalgamates numerous integrated technological concepts. However, traditional manual creation models struggle with the demand for vast content. AIGC’s efficient content generation significantly shortens the process from creative conception to materialization. It rapidly and precisely generates high-quality 3D models, scenes, props, and virtual characters, solving the metaverse’s content creation bottlenecks. Acting as a “content factory,” AIGC continuously injects fresh blood into the virtual world, fostering a more prosperous and diverse metaverse.
2) Addressing personalized user customization needs, enriching the metaverse content ecosystem:
In the metaverse, innovation and personalized services are critical to enhancing user experiences. AIGC’s advanced technologies—such as natural language processing, computer vision, and image generation—offer diverse environmental customization services. Users can generate realistic urban landscapes, fantasy forests, or unique buildings based on their personalized needs. Moreover, in NPC shaping, AIGC continuously optimizes algorithms based on user preferences, creating more realistic and highly interactive personalized virtual characters. Users can directly control these virtual characters through voice commands, adding new dimensions to the metaverse experience.
3) Promoting social development in the metaverse:
For a long time, mature platforms like WeChat, Weibo, TikTok, Xiaohongshu, Meta, WhatsApp, and Instagram dominated the social domain, seemingly unchallenged. However, AIGC’s emergence brings new possibilities by breaking traditional social content creation and distribution boundaries. Notably, in metaverse social development, AIGC exhibits three significant trends:
– Personalized content generation enhances social interaction.
– Constructing virtual social scenes enriches social interaction and fun.
– Global barrier-free communication fosters global communication without language barriers.
4) Strengthening the fusion of metaverse and reality:
AIGC’s rapid development profoundly influences metaverse construction and applications, bridging virtual boundaries and seamlessly connecting digital assets with real-world value:
– In the virtual goods and real-world trading domain, blockchain technology links virtual goods with the real economy.
– In education, immersive learning integrates with real-world curriculum progress and credit certification systems.
– In urban planning, AIGC generates high-precision digital twin models based on actual city data, providing comprehensive decision support for city managers. Moreover, urban planning schemes in the metaverse can offer real-time feedback to guide physical city construction and renovation.
AIGC’s rapid development significantly enhances the integration of the metaverse and 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 real integration, the metaverse has become a crucial “interface” between digital technology, the real world, and the physical economy. Despite experiencing cooling and sedimentation, with the continuous enhancement of domestic policies, the industry’s enthusiasm for metaverse development is gradually returning to rationality, presenting a pragmatic opportunity to propel industry development. In the future, we have reason to believe that AIGC will work hand in hand with the metaverse industry to create a new world full of infinite possibilities.
