Baidu, a Chinese tech company (NASDAQ:), isn’t looking to get left behind in the metaverse race. Officially, Baidu has begun internal testing of XiRang, its first metaverse-based application.

The company is trying to get a foothold within the growing metaverse sector. The company further noted that the app would become open to all users on Monday 27 during its annual flagship developers’ conference, Baidu Create.

China’s first-ever metaverse conference, the conference will be held via the metaverse portal XiRang.

Dubbed the “land of hope,” the metaverse app will host up to 100,000 people in a 3D virtual environment. Over the course of the event, participants will have the opportunity to meet others and discover the famous features such as the Shaolin Temple or the Sanxingdui Museum. The metaverse conference hosts one forum as well as 20 subforums.

Baidu will showcase its technology advances in areas such as autonomous driving, intelligent transport, biocomputing and quantum computing. The conference is open to developers and creators worldwide.

Ma Jie is Baidu’s Vice-President and Head of XiRang. He says that the main obstacles to developing the metaverse are creating an immersive experience in real time, visual effects backing, and interactive sounds.

There are many key technologies that need our attention. These include safe, intelligent, and self-independent cloud computing technologies. Additionally, we must continue to invent in artificial intelligence, edge computing and augmented reality. The metaverse, at this point in time is very much in its early stages. We need to be patient and build it slowly.

Baidu, however, is working to create the infrastructure necessary to support the metaverse. This will be done through technical support for AI and cloud computing.

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