Virtual Hybrid Communications – A Telecom Infrastructure for the Metaverse

Abstract

More and more people dive into Virtual Worlds, experiencing the reality of parallel universes in almost every sector. Moreover, these virtual environments actually generate "real money" directly but also indirectly by selling virtual goods. Yet the current landscape consists in a huge number of siloed Virtual Worlds. We believe that addressing this lack of interoperability could greatly improve the user experience, ease the deployment of new worlds and open up market opportunities.Bell Labs' Applications domain is contributing with Virtual Hybrid Communications, a mature Web technology based on communication hyperlinks that enables the bridging of real and virtual worlds. This technology allows people to remain connected to legacy telecom infrastructures wherever they are (in real or virtual) and to safely expose their communication means without disclosing any personal detail (name, phone number, etc). Thanks to open and standard API, it will also allow virtual service providers and Telecom operators to provide efficient communication solutions and innovative services.

Where is the research on connecting game ​ worlds?—A systematic mapping study

“…The third category of communication between virtual worlds and virtual and physical had been an interest to multiple authors. [15] Presented a solution on how to tackle the problem of communicating with friends and relatives that are not in the same virtual environment. They explained, that calling to a mobile phone from Second Life could be made possible with the use of certain "hyperlinks".…”

“…Not clearly stated, but refers to the whole web with all forums, websites and cyberworlds [24] Cyberworld 1 To distinguish, that virtual worlds are really cyber (as in Greek: skilled in steering or governing) because cyberworlds are businesses governed by companies that have total control over almost everything that happens inside. [24] Inter-virtual Object Teleportation 1 Moving objects from one virtual world to another [5] Interactive Virtual World 1 Same as virtual world [5] Interoperable pivot 1 Using a third platform (here: web technologies) as a pivotal platform, that links multiple services/worlds together [15] Metaverse 3 1. Not explained [5] 2.…”

“…Not explained [5] 2. No explanation given [15] 3. Integrated network of 3D virtual worlds [7] Metaverse of Worlds Real-life events can have an effect on the events in the virtual game world and vice versa.…”

“…Integrated network of 3D virtual worlds [7] Metaverse of Worlds Real-life events can have an effect on the events in the virtual game world and vice versa. [8] Parallel Universes 1 No explanation given [15] Pervasive Games 1 a game that is always present, available to the player.…”

Multimedia Research Toward the Metaverse

“…Due to the extremely large volume of multimedia contents contained and displayed in the metaverse, a hybrid communication strategy based on both local storage and data streaming is explored. 13 However, such methods would introduce intensive amounts of multimedia data to be transmitted. To improve the efficiency of 3-D multimedia content transmission, various strategies have been developed.…”