Recently, 360 founder Zhou Hongyi said in an annual interview with Chinese entrepreneurs that the metacosm is not only a combination of technologies, but also a digital concept, do not simply equate it with VR and 3D. He believes that a good concept will definitely bring a bubble, but a bubble will attract more smart people to join in, and it will attract more money to come in.
It is understood that Zhou Hongyi's attitude towards the metaverse has undergone many changes, first in the CCTV dialogue column broadcast on November 20, 2021, "the metacosm does not represent the future, but represents the decline of mankind"; then questioned, at the Phoenix Network Technology Summit on December 10, 2021, "the metacosm may face huge security risks"; and finally "embraced" the metacosm, at the "Opening the First Year of Digital Security - 360 Group Strategy Conference" held on December 28, 2021. Zhou Hongyi officially announced that 360 is involved in the metaverse field and presents itself as a metaverse digital twin.
Zhou Hongyi believes that among the many schools in the metaverse, 360 is a firm "digital twin", that is, it opposes the metacosm that is too detached from reality and addicted to games, but supports the metacosmity combined with industrial digitalization, realizes the metacosmization of the industrial Internet, and continuously empowers the digital transformation of various industries and the high-quality development of the economy.