In the teeth of Beijing-headquartered ByteDance efforts in assembling a metaverse hardware, content, software and platform lineup, China’s search engine giant Baidu's (BIDU) decided to follow its footsteps. Baidu’s Website reads: In 2023, the Metaverse will not only become a new marketing front, but also open the imagination to a new world. The combination of a large number of advanced technologies – such as AI, cloud technologies and blockchain – makes the development of Metaverse much more expensive than initially thought.

In particular, a lot of resources are needed for AI+ cloud computing as the main opportunity to build the underlying architecture of the Metaverse infrastructure. In fact, Metaverse has immense demand for computing power. The effective launch of the Metaverse platform and the flawless interaction of its participants depend at the initial stage on the support of cloud computing technology from large institutions. Based on the advantages of cloud analytics integration, Baidu Smart Cloud decided to contribute to the development of the technology of the future, the concept of Metaverse.

XiRang to Metaverse is like Baidu Brain to artificial intelligence. XiRang MetaStack has a number of unique features such as the Metaverse "client core", the internetworking service, the Metaverse world services engine, and the Metaverse operating platform for a "boxed" solution.

At the same time, continuing Baidu's long-standing strategy of open source and open strategy, Xiyang MetaStack has addressed three major directions: terminal side, game side, and business side, i.e. open source for ecosystem partners.

The first batch of Metaverse "virtual city" projects developed from Xiyang MetaStock were also presented – including the surreal "Yuanbang" virtual city created by Hypermedia Holdings.