The Development Stages of Metaverse and Its Cultural Consequences

The discussion on the metaverse requires considering its cultural consequences through its artistic imagination and technological realization. The current stage of the metaverse presents a sharp contrast between the full-fledged artistic imagination and the limited technological realization. The primary stage is a virtual world created by virtual reality technology while the future advanced stage should be the integration of real world and virtual world. The primary form of metaverse emphasizes the relative independence of cognition from the human body and tries to establish a unmanned virtual world with no body participation; while the advanced one proposes the human physical factor of physical cognition that must be fully considered in the seamless connection between the real world and the virtual one. The cognitive mode of metaverse is a complex of disembodied cognition, embodied cognition, embodied cognition and the combination of the two. The primary stage is establishing the aesthetic form of Aesthetics of Isolation, but it is opposed to the concept of Internet of everything in information technology. While metaverse is developing into the advanced stage, its aesthetic form will be open and compatible, so as to generate the emerging Aesthetics of Connection transformation.

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The discussion on the metaverse requires considering its cultural consequences and striking a balance between artistic imagination and technological realization. The current stage of the metaverse shows a gap between artistic imagination and technological implementation, while the future advanced stage should be a seamless integration of the real world and the virtual world.