With the continuing breakthroughs in digital technology, digital doppelgangers are moving from science fiction, movies and television into real life. So, what kind of sparks will collide between digital doppelgangers and meta-universe courts?
What is a digital avatar
Avatar, also known as digital avatar, is a kind of digital human. The so-called Digital human, refers to the use of digital technology will be the real world of people or virtual characters for digital shaping, to build its digital personality or image in the meta-universe, according to the digital person whether there is a personality as the standard, can be divided into digital doppelgänger and virtual people.
The concept of digital doppelganger has appeared at the early stage of the development of computer technology, which generally refers to the visualization of the user or the user's character in the digital space. Combined with the development of meta-universe technology, its definition has been given more connotations, and it is usually considered to refer to the use of digital technology to digitally shape the information and consciousness of a real person in real life, and to construct a digital persona that exists in the meta-universe.
How digital doppelgangers are realized
Digital doppelgangers can be realized through AI, AR, VR, blockchain, virtual reality and other technological means, and possess multiple human characteristics such as appearance, action, and interaction ability, while the use of AIGC greatly improves the interaction ability of digital doppelgangers. The appearance of the digital doppelganger can be modeled by real people or created virtually, while the realization of the personality interaction ability is mainly driven by real people or algorithmic drive to give the doppelganger "life".
For real person-driven, it is generally necessary to use motion capture, facial expression capture, computer graphics, graphic rendering, speech synthesis and other technologies. For algorithm-driven, it depends on the development of AI technology, in which the role of AIGC can not be ignored.
AIGC, or Artificial Intelligence Generated Content, is considered a new content creation model after PGC and UGC, and one of the underlying infrastructures of the meta-universe and web 3.0. AIGC is usually based on deep learning and natural language processing technologies, and utilizes modal macromodels with massive data parameters for training, so that the machine is able to generate content similar to that created by human beings, such as text , images, video, audio, code, or digital human generation. The popular ChatGPT is an important branch of AIGC.
With the help of AIGC technology to generate digital doppelgängers or virtual people, it can allow every real person to realize human-machine collaborative work through virtual images at the technical level, get rid of human beings from basic repetitive labor, and further emancipate the productivity of the society in a low-marginal-cost and high-efficiency way.
Digital Doppelganger and Metaverse Court
Meta-universe virtual court, also known as meta-universe court, refers to the three-dimensional court hearing place constructed by the court on behalf of the state to try all kinds of cases according to the law with the support of meta-universe technology and with the help of the technology to improve the intelligence of the court, such as virtual reality, digital twins, blockchain, etc., and both of them, together with the traditional online court, belong to the online court in a broad sense. Supported by virtual reality technology, the meta-universe courtroom is constructed with XR, real-time ray tracing and other technologies to completely simulate the real courtroom in the meta-universe, and create a holographic and real experience of the litigant with the real courtroom activities.
The activities of the litigation subject in the meta-universe courtroom are mainly accomplished with the help of digital doppelgänger, and the parties are present in the courtroom from the first-person perspective, participating in the litigation process in real-time, visualization and immersion. In the trial, the physiological signals of the parties can use cognitive science and technology for feature extraction and emotional display, and the digital doppelgänger can also have the ability to generate and express emotions with the parties in real time.
At the same time, with the help of digital twin technology, it is possible to realize perfect reproduction and three-dimensional display of evidence in the court of meta-universe, and the use of NFT technology is more convenient for the confirmation of evidence. At the same time, meta-universe court ensures the transparency and fairness of the case through smart contract and blockchain technology, and utilizes artificial intelligence and big data analysis to assist in judgment and adjudication, which improves the efficiency of the trial, and provides an opportunity for the development of online dispute resolution mechanism.
The Future of Metaverse Courts
People tend to predict the future based on existing perceptions, while the more distant future is always underestimated. "When people talk about technology, they overestimate the progress of development in 2 years, but underestimate the progress of development in 10 years." At this stage, meta-universe technology is still in the early stages of development, meta-universe judicial practice activities are relatively rare, the types of disputes handled by meta-universe courts, the way of hearing still follows the traditional court model, and the degree of involvement of digital diversion is limited to remote parties.
But with the development of meta-universe technology, the real world virtualization, digital evolution process accelerated, the virtual world is increasingly prosperous, more and more social activities, perhaps in the near future, in dealing with virtual and real disputes in the new meta-universe court, there will be more digital doppelgängers and virtual assistants, AI refereeing normalization, a new mode of adjudication will subvert the past cognition, sci-fi finally into reality.