MetaSensing in Metaverses: See There, Be There, and Know There
Yuhang Liu, Yu Shen, Chao Guo, Yonglin Tian, Xiao Wang, Yin Zhu, Fei–Yue Wang
Abstract
The concept of metaverses has received extensive attention recently and cyber-physical-social systems (CPSS) is its academic foundation. In almost all the applications of metaverses, the sensing system is an essential part and intelligent sensing capacity must be provided. However, due to the insufficient consideration of human factors in most of the studies, digital twins’ sensing in cyber-physical systems cannot achieve smart sensing in metaverses. For this reason, a novel framework for intelligent sensing in metaverses, MetaSensing, is proposed based on parallel intelligence in CPSS. Within the framework of MetaSensing, there are four states of sensing: physical sensing, descriptive sensing, predictive sensing, and prescriptive sensing. To protect sensors’ data privacy in metaverses, DAO-based decentralized sensing is introduced as a mechanism of the operation and maintenance for smart sensing industries.