The State Key Laboratory of Smart City IoT and the School of Science and Technology of the University of Macau held the "Macao Racing Metaverse MoCAM Platform Launch Conference and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Metaverse Autonomous Driving Challenge Kick-off Meeting" online and offline, showcasing the metaverse platform superimposed on simulated vehicle conditions and real autonomous vehicles. The platform is conducive to the research of new autonomous driving technologies, and also provides a good experimental environment for autonomous driving competitions, providing a strong foundation for the development of Macao's e-sports industry and diversified tourism.
Song Yonghua
Song Yonghua, President of UM and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Smart City IoT, said in his speech that the research project uses metaverse technology to create world-leading simulation and real-world scenarios. The scene simulates the flow of traffic and people, and at the same time superimposes with real-life autonomous vehicles, forming a multi-dimensional metaverse platform. This platform will vigorously promote the research and development of new technologies for autonomous driving, and also provide an ideal experimental environment for autonomous driving competitions, promoting the development of Macao's e-sports industry and diversified tourism.
Xu Chengzhong
At the meeting, Dean of UM's Faculty of Science and Technology, Mr Xu Chengzhong, demonstrated the multi-dimensional spatial mixed reality simulation analogy system of the Metaverse MoCAM platform, demonstrating the interaction between real self-driving vehicles and virtual vehicles in simulated sandboxes, and helping to estimate the adaptability of self-driving solutions to various traffic scenarios to reduce accidents.
The development of the metaverse platform also has the function of generating virtual scenes, and the technology and system established so far can provide the necessary environment and technical support for the metaverse autonomous driving competition, especially in verifying the adaptability, stability and efficiency of the autonomous driving algorithm in different scenarios. The University of Macau, together with City University of Hong Kong and Southern University of Science and Technology, will jointly organize and hold the Metaverse Autonomous Driving Challenge to build a metaverse platform and provide opportunities for students and researchers to interact with each other.
Chu Zhuobin, Director of the Education and Youth Affairs Division of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region, Cheng Guanwei, Member of the Administrative Committee of the Macao Science and Technology Development Fund, Hui Ka Lu, Secretary for Education and Youth Development, Chan Cho-wing, Director of the Division of Technology Application and Support of the Economic and Technological Development Bureau, Zheng Yuping and Cai Jun, representatives of CTM, representatives of Bowei Information Systems Co., Ltd., Pui Zheng, representatives of Yuehua Middle School, and teachers and students of UM also attended the event.
In addition, the 2nd Macao Seminar on Cloud Computing and Intelligent Driving, co-organised by UM and the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was also held online and offline. The conference attracted nearly 100 experts, scholars, academic researchers and students from all over the world to participate and share research results, and conducted in-depth discussions on topics such as intelligent driving and the artificial intelligence and cloud computing behind it, providing an important exchange and cooperation platform for academic and technological innovation.