saiyan86

Should metaverse be completely virtual? Should it be simply a utopia created according to our needs? But what about the real world? Are we all just gonna discard it and escape to the virtual metaverse? That sounds both impractical and disastrous. I would much prefer a physical metaverse instead.

Wait... What the hell is a physical metaverse? In my opinion, it is a place where we can easily alter things around us to serve our needs. But how can we get there? Here's my answer -- IoT. If we can orchestrate various IoT devices with ease, then we are off to a good start. Smart home is a tangible example, it can be viewed as the prototype of a physical metaverse. Here comes the PROBLEM: how can we orchestrate all these heterogeneous IoT devices with ease? Here I proudly introduce you Shifu, a framework to build your own physical metaverse.

The idea of Shifu is quite simple: Shifu creates digtal twins for IoT devices in the form of Kubernetes pods. This way, we can quickly integrate heterogeneous IoT devices into the cluster, and expose their capabilities as APIs. It means Shifu will make building IoT APPs as simple as building web APPs.

Through a "device integration-- data acquisition-- app development-- decision distribution" feedback loop, Shifu enables developers to build their own physical metaverse. What's even better, Shifu is more than just a crazy idea. Shifu has been successfully deployed in various fully automated labs/factories and received exciting results.

Talk is cheap, it's time to show you the code. Please pay us a visit at https://github.com/Edgenesis/shifu, and join the revolution of building your own physical metaverse!!!

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The definition of Edge is still unclear. To me, edge is the compute resources connecting to IoT devices. To others, edge is CDN. We really need to sort this out.