For his first publication devoted to the Metaverse, Intel is not going dead hand. According to one of the world’s largest chipmakers, the future form of the internet is not yet here. The reason is simple, the world does not have the capacity to ensure a viable Metaverse in the coming years.
It will be necessary to review “all the plumbing of the Internet”
This is the belief expressed by Raja Koduri, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics group, in a blog post published on December 14.
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He admits that several elements incite the enthusiasm of this digital future dreamed by Mark Zuckerberg: the realism of animation in video games, cinema, the rapid progress of virtual reality and augmented reality, the place further strengthened of digital in our lives with the Covid-19 pandemic, dematerialized financial technologies …
Certainly, but Raja Koduri asks his readers to imagine the needs necessary to simply place two people in a virtual social context. You need a convincing environment as well as credible avatars, all with minimum latency. According to the Intel executive, “ you will quickly realize that our current compute, storage and network infrastructure is simply not sufficient to enable this vision “.
To achieve a large-scale Metaverse as presented in fictions like Ready Player One, one would simply have to upgrade ” all the plumbing of the internet “. According to him, the computing necessary to make the Metaverse accessible to billions of humans would require ” a calculation efficiency 1000 times higher than the current state of the art “.
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In an interview with Quartz and relayed by Gizmodo, Raja Koduri estimates that according to Moore’s Law, on the evolution of the computing power of computers, the computing power will be only 8 to 10 times higher within five years. As a reminder, Facebook become Meta, dreams of a viable Metavers within 10 to 15 years.
Of course, this pessimism is relative in Raja Koduri. There is no question that Intel will abandon a future where every week a Tech company seems to announce a few hundred million euros of investment to 10 billion for the most enthusiastic (Facebook).
Raja Koduri pleads for open standards around the Metaverse, a desire that seems to be consensus. He also explains, unsurprisingly, that Intel products will be able to achieve this ” dream “. The future will tell.