Metaverse-Chaoping Chen-摘要

Throughout the history, the great philosophershave always been pondering over three fundamental questions. What are we? Wherewere we from? Where will we be? In the current mainstream view, we are human,or rather, the homo sapiens. We evolved from apes, who once lived in Africa. Asto the third question, there will be a lot of possibilities. In one scenariopictured by Prof. Yuval Noah Harari in his book Homo Deus, homo sapienswill be upgraded into cyborgs―a being with both organic and biomechatronic or bionicparts. Inspired by this prophecy, we envision an implantable metaversesolution, which consists of two key components, i.e., epiretinal implantand bionic vision processing. In this forum, we will be discussing the implantdesign, physiology of vision, principles of bionic vision, and substantiate ourconcept by reproducing the step-wise images along the visual pathway.