Metaverse: Requirements, Architecture, Standards, Status, Challenges, and Perspectives

The Metaverse is driving the next wave of innovation for new opportunities by replacing the digital world (Internet) with the virtual world through a single, shared, immersive, persistent 3D virtual space. In this article, we present requirements, architecture, standards, challenges, and solutions for Metaverse. Specifically, we provide Metaverse architecture and requirements, and different standards for Metaverse which serve as the basis for the development and deployment. Moreover, we present recent status, challenges such as integration of AI and Metaverse, security and privacy in Metaverse, etc., and perspectives and solutions.