MetaverseBench: Instantiating and benchmarking metaverse challenges

Abstract

The rapid evolution of the metaverse has led to the emergence of numerous metaverse technologies and productions. From a computer systems perspective, the metaverse system is a complex, large-scale system that integrates various state-of-the-art technologies, including AI, blockchain, big data, and AR/VR. It also includes multiple platforms, such as IoTs, edges, data centers, and diverse devices, including CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, and 3D glasses. Integrating these technologies and components to build a holistic system poses a significant challenge for system designers. The first step towards building the metaverse is to instantiate and evaluate the challenges and provide a comprehensive benchmark suite. However, to the best of our knowledge, no existing benchmark defines the metaverse challenges and evaluates state-of-the-art solutions from a holistic perspective. In this paper, we instantiate metaverse challenges from a system perspective and propose MetaverseBench, a holistic and comprehensive metaverse benchmark suite. Our preliminary experiments indicate that the existing system performance needs to catch up to the requirements of the metaverse by two orders of magnitude on average.