Abstract: The concept of the metaverse has been widely popular in the technology industry, and then affects various fields. As command and control is an indispensable part of the military field, it cannot be developed without the support of advanced scientific and concepts. The development process and conceptual evolution of the metaverse concept are summarized. On this basis, according to the characteristics of the metaverse, it is proposed to divide the metaverse into five layers: infrastructure layer, user layer, human-computer interaction layer, experience layer and rule layer. Aiming at the four areas of command and control, the impact of metaverse technology on various fields is analyzed, and the changes in the situational cognition model driven by emerging technologies in the perspective of the metaverse are explored, so as to provide a reference for adaptation to the future modernization warfare.