So, to answer the question in the title, it sounds like the answer is "we are a long way off, but are slowly chipping away at the requirements." Sort of like self driving cars.
This is an interesting analogy. From an AI/Engineering perspective, there is a difference in the kinds of problems involved. Self-Driving requires a lot moving parts in the physical world, that is much messier kind of problem. Metaverse will only really use physical devices to interface with the world, which is a much cleaner problem to deal with. That is why Self-Driving cars have had so many problems, even though the foundational problems (detection, motion, path finding etc) have been solved already.
I think the Metaverse (in a simple form) is much closer than people realise.
So, to answer the question in the title, it sounds like the answer is "we are a long way off, but are slowly chipping away at the requirements." Sort of like self driving cars.
This is an interesting analogy. From an AI/Engineering perspective, there is a difference in the kinds of problems involved. Self-Driving requires a lot moving parts in the physical world, that is much messier kind of problem. Metaverse will only really use physical devices to interface with the world, which is a much cleaner problem to deal with. That is why Self-Driving cars have had so many problems, even though the foundational problems (detection, motion, path finding etc) have been solved already.
I think the Metaverse (in a simple form) is much closer than people realise.