Toward a Smart Metaverse City: Immersive Realism and 3D Visualization of Digital Twin Cities

Book · Mon May 01 04:00:00 EDT 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003270928-18· OSTI ID:1995716

Xu, Haowen ^[1]; Berres, Andy ^[1]; Shao, Yunli ^[1]; Wang, Ross ^[1]; New, Joshua ^[1]; Omitaomu, Femi ^[1]

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1. ORNL

Metaverse and its related extended reality technologies can enable immersive, realistic, and participatory visualization of 3D data, and their use and the potential within a smart city can be effective for supporting urban research and urban operations management. This book chapter describes a vision for prototyping a “Smart Metaverse City” to combine the unique advantage of the Metaverse technology with the two-way connectivity of a digital twin city application. This synergy aims to create a virtual environment for immersive geovisualization to help researchers and the public understand the complex urban system through science-based and data-driven approaches. This book chapter selectively reviews past technological and paradigm advancements for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing 3D urban big data. Then we present a prototyping Geographic Information System (GIS) framework, together with some relevant data sources and open-source web technologies, to help researchers create a smart Metaverse city. We demonstrate our vision and discuss its application opportunities through a real-world example, a digital twin city developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to facilitate participatory, smart, and sustainable campus management.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1995716
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English