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Future Trend Industrial Metervese…⁉️

More than just hype⁉️ Changes in the economy due to the Industrial Metaverse…

The Industrial Metaverse is like a digital parallel universe in which people from all over the world work together in the form of avatars – faster, more efficiently and more environmentally friendly than in the real world. But what does this mean for our economy in concrete terms?

Imagine you are an engineer at a machine tool manufacturer. On a Monday morning, you’re preparing for an important meeting involving engineers from around the world. The special feature? No one must make a long and expensive trip. Instead, everyone involved puts on virtual reality goggles and dives into the Industrial Metaverse, where they collaborate as avatars on 3D models.

No alt text provided for this image — Image: Virtual engineering, here on a realistic model of a machine tool (Source: igus/Holo-Light).

Many might dismiss the metaverse as temporary hype, but Dr. Dietmar Lass, senior research manager at the Fraunhofer ICT Alliance, is convinced, „The metaverse is more than a hype. It will come, however and to whatever extent.“ Large companies such as Siemens Energy, BASF, Kawasaki Robotics, SAP, ABB and Rockwell Automation are already experimenting with it and using the technology, for example, to set up virtual labs, plan maintenance operations or build agile robot factories.

However, not only large companies should benefit from the advantages of Metaverse, but also SMEs. This is where igus GmbH comes in and plans to open the iguverse as a kind of software-as-a-service in the medium term. In this way, companies with a low level of digitization and a limited budget can also benefit from the advantages of #virtualreality – without their own development costs. igus thereby builds digital and copy-protected twins for the digital space and even offers the digitization of old products. In addition, it is planned to offer suitable VR glasses and VR controllers for rent. https://blog.igus.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SK.mp4

The iguverse offers a variety of new possibilities, such as the presentation of #virtual twins of products or the implementation of complete engineering projects with engineers and material experts from all over the world. It even makes it possible to design a virtual store floor together with suppliers and then transfer it to the real world – thanks to #augmented reality.

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24. August 2023 0 comment

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Future Trend Industrial Metervese…⁉️

More than just hype⁉️ Changes in the economy due to the Industrial Metaverse…

Many might dismiss the metaverse as temporary hype, but Dr. Dietmar Lass, senior research manager at the Fraunhofer ICT Alliance, is convinced, „The metaverse is more than a hype. It will come, however and to whatever extent.“ Large companies such as Siemens Energy, BASF, Kawasaki Robotics, SAP, ABBand Rockwell Automation are already experimenting with it and using the technology, for example, to set up virtual labs, plan maintenance operations or build agile robot factories.

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An #AR model of a robot with igus products projected in real size onto a factory floor (source: igus).

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17. August 2023 0 comment

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Auf dem Weg ins Industrial Metaverse

Die Logistik kämpft nicht nur gegen Lieferkettenstörungen, sondern auch um qualifiziertes Personal. Welche Rolle das sogenannte Industrial Metaverse bei der Mitarbeitergewinnung spielt.

Unternehmen müssen sich vielfältigen Herausforderungen stellen: Hierzu zählen der Kostendruck bei gleichzeitiger Effizienzsteigerung, der Fachkräftemangel, die Mitarbeiterfluktuation und die Attraktivität des Arbeitsplatzes. Das betrifft auch die Logistikwirtschaft. Laut einer Studie von Amazon und der Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Würzburg-Schweinfurt, die im April 2022 veröffentlicht wurde, haben unter 26-Jährige Vorbehalte gegenüber Tätigkeiten in der Logistik: monotone, meist körperlich anstrengende Arbeiten, oft ohne moderne technologische Unterstützung – das sind die Kritikpunkte der Nachwuchskräfte.

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Foto: Das sogenannte Industrial Metaverse bietet Unternehmen viele Möglichkeiten – etwa Mitarbeiter digital zu schulen. Bild: Gorodenkoff/AdobeStock

https://logistik-heute.de/fachmagazin/fachartikel/auto-id-augmented-reality-auf-dem-weg-ins-industrial-metaverse-39195.html

4. August 2023 0 comment

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Siemens investiert Milliarde und legt Grundstein für industrielles Metaverse

Siemens setzt seine angekündigte Investitionsoffensive über zwei Milliarden Euro konsequent um. Das Unternehmen plant rund eine Milliarde Euro davon in Deutschland zu investieren und stärkt dadurch die Innovationskraft des Standortes. Der neue Campus wird weltweites Entwicklungs- und Fertigungs-Zentrum sowie Nukleus für Technologie-Aktivitäten zum industriellen Metaverse.

Der Technologiekonzern verkündete am 13. Juli 2023 in Anwesenheit von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz die Gründung eines neuen Campus für Entwicklung und High-Tech-Fertigung in Erlangen. Das Vorhaben umfasst Investitionen von rund 500 Millionen Euro für den Ausbau von Forschungs- und Fertigungskapazitäten. Damit etabliert Siemens den Standort als weltweites Forschungs- und Entwicklungs-Zentrum sowie Nukleus für weltweite Technologie-Aktivitäten zum industriellen Metaverse. Siemens beschleunigt so insgesamt sein Wachstum, treibt Innovationen voran und erhöht seine Resilienz.

Die heute verkündeten Investitionen sind Teil der im vergangenen Monat vorgestellten weltweiten Investitionsstrategie von rund zwei Milliarden Euro, hauptsächlich für neue Fertigungskapazitäten sowie Innovationseinrichtungen, Ausbildungszentren und weitere eigene Standorte. Mit den Investitionen unterstreicht Siemens sein Bekenntnis zur Metropolregion Nürnberg.

Menschen und Roboter arbeiten Seite an Seite

Am heutigen Standort mit rund 3.500 Mitarbeitenden befindet sich bereits eine Weltklassefabrik für Schlüsselprodukte der industriellen Automatisierung und Digitalisierung. Schon heute ist die Produktion hochautomatisiert, Menschen und Roboter arbeiten Seite an Seite. Mit der Investition legt Siemens nun den Grundstein für das industrielle Metaverse, eine virtuelle Abbildung der realen Welt – fotorealistisch, physikbasiert, und in Echtzeit. Durch den gezielten Einsatz relevanter, physikalischer Daten und der Anwendung von künstlicher Intelligenz entsteht die neueste Generation der High-Tech-Fertigung. Diese kann nachhaltiger produziert und flexibel auf Marktveränderungen reagieren.

Neuer Campus vereint Entwicklung und High-Tech-Fertigung

Der geplante Campus im Westen Erlangens setzt auf eine nachhaltige und zukunftsorientierte High-Tech-Fertigung. Das betrifft auch Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten und die Öffnung des Standortes für ein Ökosystem von Partnern aus Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft. Geplant ist dafür auch ein Umbau bestehender Einrichtungen und eine Erweiterung des Areals.

Die neuen Bauten für Forschung- und Entwicklung, Produktion sowie Logistik werden noch vor dem ersten Spatenstich in der virtuellen Welt geplant, simuliert und anschließend in der realen Welt umgesetzt. Daraus ergibt sich eine exakte Replik in der virtuellen Welt. In dieser wird mit dem Einsatz des industriellen Metaverse das gesamte bestehende Fabriklayout optimiert und später in der realen Welt neu angeordnet wird. In Erlangen werden Komponenten der Leistungselektronik und Werkzeugmaschinen-Steuerungen für den Maschinenbau gefertigt. Das alles sind Schlüsselelemente für die deutsche Wirtschaft und Industrie.

Mit der Investition legt Siemens nun den Grundstein für das industrielle Metaverse, eine virtuelle Abbildung der realen Welt. Und das alles fotorealistisch, physikbasiert und in Echtzeit.

„Diese Investition ist ein starkes Signal für den Innovations- und Produktionsstandort Deutschland. Die hochmoderne Fertigung, die in Erlangen entsteht, ist ein gutes Beispiel, wie unsere Wirtschaft in die klimaneutrale Zukunft geht – als starkes Industrieland mit guten zukunftsfähigen Arbeitsplätzen.“ Das sagte Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz anlässlich der Grundsteinlegung. „Siemens setzt auf Innovation in Deutschland und zündet die nächste Stufe der Digitalisierung. Wir legen den Grundstein für das industrielle Metaverse in der Metropolregion Nürnberg. Hier, auf dem neuen Campus, verbinden wir die reale mit der digitalen Welt.“ So beschreibt Roland Busch, Vorsitzender des Vorstands der Siemens AG, das Vorhaben. „Zusammen mit Partnern entwickeln wir im Metaverse neue digitale Technologien und revolutionieren, wie wir künftig produzieren – wesentlich effizienter, flexibler und nachhaltiger.“

Die Investition ist ein weiteres wichtiges Element der Siemens-Strategie, die reale und die digitale Welt zu verbinden. Das Unternehmen stärkt den Standort als Zentrum für digitale Produktionskonzepte etwa durch den Einsatz des industriellen Metaverse und für moderne Technologien wie industriellen 3D-Druck sowie innovative Leistungselektronik. Gleichzeitig lernen die Mitarbeitenden durch zukunftsweisende Arbeits- und Weiterbildungskonzepte (NextWork), sich auf die digitale Transformation der Arbeitswelt vorzubereiten und diese aktiv mitzugestalten.

Innovative Energieinfrastruktur und grüne Energieversorgung

Der Ausbau des Werks folgt einem umfassenden und zukunftsweisenden Nachhaltigkeits- und Energiekonzept. Das rund 200.000 m² große Areal ist dann konsequent nach einem Null-Emissionen-Standort ausgerichtet, der höchste Nachhaltigkeitskriterien erfüllt. Geplant sind auch eine innovative Energieinfrastruktur, grüne Energieversorgung und -speicherung. Dies erfolgt in Partnerschaft mit der Stadt Erlangen und der umfassende Einsatz von nachhaltigen digitalen Gebäudetechniklösungen von Siemens. Realisiert wird der neue Campus in Erlangen von Siemens Real Estate, dem Immobilienunternehmen des Konzerns.

Stärkung des Standorts Deutschland

Deutschland ist der Heimatmarkt der Siemens AG und einer der weltweit wichtigsten Standorte für Produktion, Forschung, Entwicklung und Beschäftigung. Der Technologiekonzern beschäftigt rund 86.000 Menschen in Deutschland, davon rund 38.500 Beschäftigte in der Metropolregion. Mit seinen Investitionen trägt das Unternehmen einmal mehr zur Entwicklung der Metropolregion Nürnberg und der Stadt Erlangen bei. Zudem bekennt sich Siemens auch zum High-Tech-Standort Bayern. Der Konzern investiert in die Zukunftsfähigkeit und Innovationskraft des Industriestandortes Deutschland, um von hier aus die ganze Welt mit Produkten des Unternehmens zu beliefern.

Siemens hatte im Kontext seiner globalen Investitionsstrategie von rund zwei Milliarden Euro Investitionen in den USA, China und Südostasien angekündigt. Zuletzt gab das Unternehmen zu Beginn der Woche den Neubau seiner Zentrale in Spanien bekannt und bezifferte das Investitionsvolumen mit 160 Millionen Euro .

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Siemens investiert Milliarde und legt Grundstein für industrielles Metaverse

Lesen Sie auch: Siemens und Nvidia: Handschlag für das industrielle Metaverse.

27. Juli 2023 0 comment

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Siemens to Invest €1 Billion in Germany and Create Blueprint for Industrial Metaverse in Nuremberg Metropolitan Region

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Siemens will invest €1 billion into Germany to bolster its Industrial Metaverse Initiatives.
The announcement comes off of the back of the European Commission’s increased commitment to the metaverse.

Siemens is rigorously executing its announced €2 billion investment strategy. Of this amount, the company plans to invest around €1 billion in Germany, thereby boosting the country’s innovative strength. In the presence of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the technology company today announced the establishment of its new Technology Campus in Erlangen, Germany, with investments of around €500 million in the expansion of development and manufacturing capacities. As a result, Siemens is establishing the Erlangen location as a global research and development hub and the nucleus of global technology activities for the industrial metaverse. These steps will enable Siemens to accelerate its overall growth, drive innovation and increase its resilience.

The investments announced today are part of the global investment strategy of around €2 billion unveiled last month and focused mainly on new manufacturing capacities, innovation labs, education centers and further Siemens locations. These investments underscore Siemens’ commitment to the Nuremberg metropolitan region.# With around 3,500 employees, the current location is already home to a world-class factory for key products in industrial automation and digitalization. Today, production in Erlangen is already highly automated, with humans and robots working side by side. Through this investment, Siemens is now creating a blueprint for the industrial metaverse, a virtual representation of the real world – photorealistic, physics-based and in real time. The targeted use of relevant, physical data and the application of artificial intelligence are creating the latest generation of high-tech manufacturing, which produces more sustainability and can respond flexibly to market changes. “This investment is a strong signal for Germany as a location for innovation and production. The leading-edge manufacturing facility being built in Erlangen is a good example of how our economy is moving toward a climate-neutral future – as a strong industrial country with good sustainable jobs,” said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “Siemens is banking on innovation in Germany and launching the next stage of digitalization: we’re laying the foundation for the industrial metaverse in the Nuremberg metropolitan region. Here, on the new campus, we’re combining the real and the digital worlds,” said Roland Busch, President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG. “Together with partners, we’re developing new digital technologies in the metaverse and revolutionizing how we’ll run our production in the future – much more efficiently, flexibly and sustainably.”

New campus combines development and high-tech manufacturing

The campus – which is to be built in the west of Erlangen – will focus on sustainable and future-oriented high-tech manufacturing, related research and development activities, and the opening of the location for an ecosystem of partners from the business and scientific communities. The plan for the location also calls for converting existing facilities and expanding the site. Before construction work begins, the new buildings for research and development, production and logistics will be planned and simulated in the digital world. They will then be implemented in the real world. In the process, an exact replica is created in the digital world, in which the entire existing factory layout is optimized and later readjusted in the real world by using the industrial metaverse. The Erlangen factory manufactures power electronics components and machine tool controls for the machine building industry, which are key elements of Germany’s economy and industry. The investment is another important element of Siemens’ strategy to combine the real and the digital worlds. The company is strengthening its Erlangen location as a hub for digital production concepts – for example, through the use of the industrial metaverse and for modern technologies like industrial 3D printing and innovative power electronics. In addition, employees are upgrading their skills through forward-looking work and training concepts (NextWork) not only to prepare themselves for the digital transformation of the working world but also to actively shape it.

Environmentally Sustainable Location

The facility’s expansion is based on a comprehensive and forward-looking sustainability and energy concept. Its roughly 200,000-square-meter area is being rigorously designed to be a net-zero location that meets the highest sustainability criteria. Plans include an innovative energy infrastructure, green energy supply and energy storage in partnership with the city of Erlangen, and the extensive use of Siemens’ sustainable digital building technology solutions. The new campus in Erlangen will be implemented by Siemens Real Estate – the company’s real estate arm.

Strengthening Germany as an Industrial Location

Germany is Siemens AG’s home market and one of the world’s most important locations for production, research, development and employment. The technology company employs about 86,000 people in Germany, including around 38,500 in the metropolitan region. Thanks to its investments, the company is again contributing to the development of the city of Erlangen and the Nuremberg metropolitan region, is committing itself to Bavaria as a high-tech location and is, ultimately, investing in the future viability and innovative strength of Germany as an industrial location in order to deliver its products from Germany to the entire world. As part of its global investment strategy of around €2 billion, Siemens has announced investments in regions such as the U.S., China and Southeast Asia. At the beginning of the week, the company announced its most recent investment project: the construction of new headquarters in Spain with an investment volume of €160 million.

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Siemens to Invest €1 Billion in Germany and Create Blueprint for Industrial Metaverse in Nuremberg Metropolitan Region

20. Juli 2023 0 comment

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Embracing Change Enablement in the Age of Digital Twins and the Metaverse

This article was authored by Lori Hufford the vice president of Engineering Collaboration, Bentley Systems

AEC (architectural, engineering, and construction) firms and the infrastructure sector are at an inflection point. With the unprecedented demand to address aging infrastructure and new infrastructure investments to drive social and economic benefits worldwide, combined with a growing shortage of talent and skilled labor, AEC firms across the infrastructure lifecycle must do more with less.

New technology is a natural place to turn for increases in efficiency and effectiveness—digital transformation promises the ability to work better, faster, with fewer resources, and with better outcomes. According to AEC Advisors, the global AEC market size for all software (not just digital initiatives) was $7 billion in 2020 and is projected to reach $16 billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 10.7%. This spending surge likely means that AEC firms and the sector are augmenting older technologies and file-based systems with data-centric, digital, and model-based technologies.

Infrastructure digital twins and immersive metaverse experiences have the potential to unlock huge value and efficiencies across the entire infrastructure lifecycle. Combining design and engineering models, reality capture imagery, IoT (Internet of Things) sensor data, and other sources of information into dynamic, realtime, 3D immersive infrastructure digital twins will fundamentally improve how infrastructure projects move from concept to design, into construction, and through operations.

Data-centric workflows will advance how AEC firms and asset owners collaborate across the project and infrastructure lifecycle, accelerate how these groups make decisions, and improve the quality of deliverables and assets. Leading organizations have already started this journey.

However, before speeding down this path, it is important for AEC firms—and the whole sector—to understand that digital transformation in any form is far more than just new technology. Investing in technology alone is likely to fail. For digital transformation, such as digital twins and the metaverse, to truly succeed, firms and organizations need to also address how technology changes will affect the people that use it and the processes that support it.

Introducing these technologies as incremental advancements to existing processes—leveraging the work already being done—can provide tremendous value and ease the adoption curve, while at the same time providing tremendous value. Still, change is hard. And with five distinct generations in the workforce right now—all with different expectations and comfort levels regarding the use of technology—change management is that much harder.

New digital applications and programs require the workforce to learn new things. Thoughtful change enablement is critically important to the success of digital transformation—regardless of the approach or methodology. Change enablement needs to focus on why this is important to the people and what processes will change. So, how can AEC firms and organizations achieve this?

First, organizations need to ensure that people understand why change is good for them and the company. Organizations often underestimate the impact new digital technologies—such as digital twins, the metaverse, and AI (artificial intelligence)—can have on the way employees do their job. Employees have shared values, beliefs, and norms.

Many are comfortable with their role and the way that they do their jobs, making them resistant to change. Change enablement is a critical piece to removing obstacles and driving adoption. To ensure success, firms and organizations should articulate the benefits of the new technologies or applications being implemented and why they are important to employee and firmwide success. If people understand why this change is a good thing, they will be more likely to accept and even embrace it.

Second, organizations must clearly communicate what is changing. Employees’ next question will likely be, “how will this change affect my job?” With new technology, applications, or techniques in hand, it is time to transform and improve business processes. Business process re-engineering can range from a light to heavy touch, depending on the outcomes.

One technique that leading organizations are taking is identifying a forward-thinking team to implement the new technology on a project and contribute to documentation and evangelization to other teams within the organization. Real-world successes add credibility and make change more comfortable. Setting goals can help organizations define and communicate what they are trying to achieve. Equally important is also communicating what will not change and how legacy processes will benefit from the proposed changes.

Finally, organizations need to support new technology and tool implementations with the necessary training, communications planning, and resources. They also need to monitor the results, listen to feedback from their employees, and refine their approaches along the way.

For AEC firms and organizations to effectively address the sector’s current set of challenges, digital transformation is imperative, not an option. The transformative power of infrastructure digital twins and the metaverse is quickly approaching and within our grasp. However, without acknowledging the critical role people and processes play and the need for thoughtful change enablement, the business, operational, and market value these technologies promise will be hard to fully realize. Infrastructure firms are encouraged to incorporate change management when moving to digital delivery to ensure timely adoption, thus maximizing the impact of their investment in the technology.

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Embracing Change Enablement in the Age of Digital Twins and the Metaverse

19. Juli 2023 0 comment

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How Europe is Regulating the Industrial Metaverse

A deep dive into the European Commission metaverse, web3 roadmap to promote growth and competition

This week, the European Commission (EC) launched a regulation initiative to stimulate competition within the XR space, notably enterprise-grade metaverse services. The regulations aim to stop big technology firms from dominating the space, in line with the EC’s values and fundamental rights.

The EC is aiming to promote an open and interoperable metaverse future whereby various companies, big or small, can take part in creating a shared foundation for immersive web services.

The group also is setting up regulatory sandboxes which invite creators, media companies, and enterprise end-users to promote an industrial metaverse space supporting numerous use cases.

Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager added:

We need to have people at the centre and shape it according to our EC digital rights and principles, to address the risks regarding privacy or disinformation. We want to make sure Web 4.0 becomes an open, secure, trustworthy, fair and inclusive digital environment for all.

In a study the EC published in March, the group expected that the market for virtual worlds and the metaverse will grow from its €27 billion valuation in 2022 to over €800 billion by 2030.

“Today, Europe throws its hat in the ring to become a world leader in Web 4.0 and virtual worlds,” said Thierry Breton, Commissioner for Internal Market.

Breton also notes that the EC is taking a “competitive edge”, bringing the EC’s metaverse support to the “next level” as the group aims to “connect virtual world developers with industry users, invest in the uptake and scale-up of new technologies, and give people the tools and the skills to safely and confidently use virtual worlds.”

The Commissioner added:

Europe has what it takes to lead the next technological transition: innovative start-ups, rich creative content and industrial applications, a strong role as a global standard-setter, and an innovation-friendly and predictable legal framework.

Four Key Pillars to Regulating the Metaverse

As part of its more comprehensive Digital Decade policy programme, the EC is building its regulatory metaverse guidelines to promote digital skills, business, infrastructures, and public services.

Moreover, the guidelines provide openness and global governance to companies adopting metaverse solutions.

Empowering the Public

Firstly, the EC empowers people by reinforcing the skills needed to leverage industrial metaverse solutions. The group fosters awareness by promoting a wealth of resources and a talent pool to work on metaverse services.

According to the EC, the group will also promote guiding principles for the metaverse via a Citizens’ Panel, whereby the general public will develop its guidelines. Additionally, the EC is establishing a Citizen Toolbox ready for the first quarter of 2024 to assist the public in leveraging and understanding metaverse services.

Dubravka Šuica, Vice-President for Democracy and Demography, also added:

The recommendations of the European Citizens’ Panel on Virtual Worlds have had a determining impact on the outcome of this initiative that is adopted by the Commission today. I am so glad that the work we have done to deepen citizens’ engagement, and to make it meaningful for our work, is bearing such fruitful results. When we said: “The Future is in Your Hands”, we meant it!

The EC is also working with Member States to help build a talent pool for women XR and metaverse developers. The EC is getting funding from Digital Europe Programme and further assistance from the Creative Europe Programme to support its inclusivity initiative.

Supporting an EC Industrial Ecosystem

Moreover, the EC appears to be readying up for a long-term relationship with web3 and the metaverse by laying out plans to support emerging web technologies through to web4.

The EC is looking to scale industry excellence and address fragmentation. To support businesses going towards a metaverse future, the EC is setting up a regional industrial ecosystem that brings together different end users to increase the value of virtual worlds.

The EC also proposes a candidate Partnership on Virtual Worlds under Horizon Europe, ready for 2025, potentially promoting research and development (R&D) into metaverse services. The group wants to develop a roadmap to foster growth as emerging immersive solutions evolve.

EC creators and media companies will also get the opportunity to test new XR content creation tools with additional resources, mentorship, and the EC’s regulatory sandboxes.

Support Virtual Public Services

Within its industrial roadmap vision, the EC aims to support public service workers as XR technology grows globally as a tool for this use case.

To understand XR’s opportunities for public service firms, the EC is investing significant R&D into technologies that will advance scientific and industrial workflows.

The EC’s R&D team is developing “precious applications” to help public service workers. For example, the EC is developing immersive solutions to help with numerous use cases, like helping authorities make critical public-policy decisions.

Moreover, the EC is developing tools such as Destination Earth (DestinE) that will create a digital twin of Earth, Local Digital Twins which support smart city developments, European Digital Twin of the Ocean to support scientific research, CitiVerse a metaverse urban environment for city planning/management, and European Virtual Human Twin a healthcare tool for supporting clinical decisions and personal treatment.

Setting the Global Benchmark

By setting a regulating standard, the EC looks to lead by example.

As the metaverse and industrial use of XR is growing worldwide, many audiences still do not understand it. In a recent study, Gartner Director Analyst Tuong Huy Nguyen noted that adopters lack a proper understanding of the metaverse based on his research.

The EC looks to shape that understanding of the metaverse with its global standards, ensuring competition, growth, and understanding for all industry players.

Moreover, the EC works closely with global internet governance stakeholders to promote the metaverse standards and expectations.

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18. Juli 2023 0 comment

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Industrial and enterprise metaverse ‘exceeding expectations’ – survey

An industrial metaverse revolution is already underway, albeit quietly, according to a new study by Nokia and Ernst and Young.

With the hype train currently on a tour of generative AI and the surrounding environs, there is a pervading sense that the metaverse is a rapidly-diminishing speck in the rear-view mirror.

The word was noticeably absent from Apple’s press release last week about its new and eye-wateringly expensive mixed reality (XR) headset, Vision Pro. It is clearly designed with enterprise metaverse experiences in mind, but the iPhone maker prefers the word ‘spatial’ instead, espousing the benefits of spatial computing, spatial experiences, and spatial content. It doesn’t want to be tarnished with the metaverse brush.

But while a cloud of scepticism continues to hang over the consumer side of the metaverse market, when it comes to enterprise and industrial use cases, the weather is decidedly sunnier.

According to Nokia and EY’s survey, early metaverse adopters are achieving improvements in capex and opex reduction that exceed their expectations by 15% and 6% respectively. There are also noteworthy gaps between expectation and reality when it comes to safety improvement and enhanced customer experience and service (see chart below).

These encouraging results have improved the general perception of the metaverse among enterprise and industrial users. On average, 80% of those who have already implemented metaverse use cases believe they will have a significant or transformational impact on the way they do business. Only 2% of respondents see the metaverse as a buzzword or a fad.

“The industrial and enterprise metaverses are here, this study shows the clear appetite for these technologies such as extended reality and digital twins to achieve business goals,” said Vincent Douin, executive director of business consulting and business transformation at Ernst and Young, in a statement. “We are already seeing many organisations going above and beyond the planning stages and recognising tangible benefits from their initial implementations.”

Both Nokia and EY have horses in this race, so it’s no surprise that they are sharing a survey that waxes lyrical about the benefits of industrial and enterprise metaverse applications.

EY late last year announced the launch of a metaverse version of its Wavespace co-working service – which is essentially a load of fancy meeting rooms dotted around the globe that enable staff from different offices to get together and hammer out ideas. It also launched a metaverse lab in the US that lets developers build and test out new metaverse use cases.

As for Nokia, enterprise – and in particular industrial – metaverse fits in with its Industry 4.0 strategy, which revolves around the deployment of advanced, mission-critical comms networks to support the digitalisation and automation of more and more processes.

It is little wonder then that Nokia highlighted reliable, high-speed connectivity among respondents’ highest priorities for enabling metaverse use cases.

“It is great to see that companies clearly believe in the power of the metaverse for business value creation in both enterprise and industrial use cases,” Thierry E. Klein, president of Bell Labs Solutions Research, Nokia.

“This strongly aligns with our vision, informed by more than eight years of research at Nokia Bell Labs, that the industrial metaverse is an extension of Industry 4.0,” he continued. “Consequently, those who have already implemented mission-critical communications networks for Industry 4.0 are now well placed to experience the benefits of the metaverse that clearly some companies are already seeing.”

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https://telecoms.com/522170/industrial-and-enterprise-metaverse-exceeding-expectations-survey/

13. Juli 2023 0 comment

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The Metaverse and Immersive Technologies Show Promise in Industrial Applications

Some of the greatest potential for early adoption of the Metaverse and immersive technologies lies within the core industries that underpin our economies, including manufacturing, engineering services, construction, and transportation design. Collectively grouped as the Industrial Metaverse, we believe these technologies can transform how manufacturing systems are designed and tested, products are sourced, global teams collaborate, and more. Helping this transformation are persistent improvements in form factors and capabilities of XR headsets, which can, for example, give companies contextualized spatial views of projects without needing to dispatch employees onsite.

With broad post-pandemic capital expenditure (CapEx) expansion in the United States, China, and other major economies, we expect the development and adoption of immersive technology that caters to industrial functions to accelerate alongside automation. And in the process, we expect investors to have opportunities to capture this growth.

Key Takeaways

We expect immersive technologies to play a key role in reshoring of supply chains and manufacturing, which requires investment in automation and intelligent software.
The Industrial Metaverse currently represents a greater near-term revenue opportunity than the Consumer and Enterprise Metaverses due to its capacity to enhance operational efficiency.
Early success of digital twin technology illustrates the Industrial Metaverse’s growth potential and the segments in line to benefit, including digital twin software, data management, and graphic processing hardware.

Reshoring Can Catalyze Automation, Connectivity, and the Metaverse

COVID-19 displacing global supply chains coupled with mounting geopolitical tensions has major economies and businesses around the world reconsidering their global manufacturing strategies and investing in domestic solutions. U.S. CapEx spending grew a substantial 19.8% year-over-year (YoY) in 2022.¹China’s spending on fixed assets grew by nearly 4.7% YoY in the first four months of 2023.² An AVEVA survey found 85% of industrial businesses spanning manufacturing, large-scale agribusiness, food and beverage, infrastructure, energy, power and chemical processing plan to increase their digital investment.³These capital projects set the stage for a Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0, the next step in the digitalization of manufacturing.

We expect increased investment in automation, connectivity, and virtual modeling to catalyze the growth of the Industrial Metaverse through technologies like digital twins, blockchain, and edge computing. In particular, digital twins, positioned at the convergence of artificial intelligence and virtual reality, serve as a conduit between the physical and digital realms. Also, enhancements to and expansions of networking infrastructure, such as the implementation of low latency 5G networks, can help proliferate applications.

Whether by way of 3D simulations or digital twins, the market for the Industrial Metaverse and its adjacent immersive technologies are more advanced than the Consumer and Enterprise Metaverses. Specific industrial use cases can explain the gap, as they seek to address real-world challenges and essential business needs.

Digital Twin Technology Is Critical to Industrial Automation

Digital twin technology facilitates the precise modeling of physical objects and environments in a digital space, capturing the full spectrum of variables that impact the object in its environment. This visibility allows companies to test assets, designs, and processes in real time without the risk of expensive mistakes made in the physical world. For example, the technology can streamline the planning of factories, buildings, even entire cities.

Valued at $12.6 billion in 2022, the global digital twin market is expected to reach $140.8 billion by 2032, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.3%.⁴ The seeds of this growth potential are evident already, with many major industrial corporations and suppliers of automation solutions running successful experiments using this technology.

Siemens & Nvidia: The Digital Native Factory in Nanjing, China is Siemens’ first factory with a digital twin, which helped increase the factory’s manufacturing capacity by 200% and its productivity by 20%.⁵Also, Siemens collaborated with Nvidia to connect the Siemens Xcelerator and Nvidia Omniverse platforms to create photo-realistic, physics-related, and real-time digital twins. An initial result of this partnership is a digital model of a next-generation factory for battery manufacturer FREYR Battery. The demo features 3D representations of not only FREYR’s plant and machinery but also human ergonomics, safety protocols, and robotic inclusions at the factory.
Unity: Designed to cater to trades such as automotive, manufacturing, architecture, and energy, the Unity Industry product suite provides live 3D augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and virtual reality (VR) support. The Unity Mars tool allows users to build mock-ups of AR and MR experiences equipped with special recognition. Unity Pixyz is for computer-aided design software professionals to turn Point Clouds into Mesh. Unity also has Timi, a fictional brand that depicts how real-time 3D marketing on a heavy equipment product line can work.
General Motors (GM) and General Electric (GE): General Motors created a connected ecosystem by deploying approximately 6,000 operational technology (OT) devices at each of its plants and by integrating over 50 manufacturing execution systems (MES) applications. GM’s plants have 100,000 connections between the OT and Informational Technologies (IT) layers.⁶ To reduce the manual effort required to manage these systems, GM collaborated with GE Digital to develop MES 4.0. Together, they established GM’s Virtual Factory Testbed, which uses digital twins to simulate plant-floor behavior.
IBM: The IBM Digital Twin Exchange is an e-commerce platform designed to facilitate the exchange of digital assets. The platform can be a valuable resource for asset-intensive industries because it offers a wide range of enterprise-wide digital assets. Also, IBM collaborated with infrastructure consultancy Sund & Baelt to develop a digital twin-powered system that optimizes inspections and predictive maintenance strategies for aging infrastructure. With the help of the IBM Maximo Application Suite, this system can extend the lifespan of critical infrastructure.
Microsoft: Azure Digital Twins is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) through which users can construct comprehensive twin graphs by leveraging digital models of buildings, factories, farms, energy networks, railways, stadiums, even entire cities. Also, Azure Digital Twins makes it feasible to design a digital twin that accurately portrays real-world Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices within a broader cloud solution.

Eventually, we expect digital twin technologies to spread to smaller instances, enabling virtually every asset and process within companies to be digitally replicated.

Broad Industrial Digitization Creates Robust Opportunity Set

The impact of industrial customers adopting sophisticated immersive tech and modeling solutions will be far-reaching. In line to benefit are platforms that provide digital twin software and vendors of connectivity solutions that make it easy to record real-time data, hardware providers that support graphic processing, and data management companies that facilitate data storage and access. We believe that cost savings, increased speed to market, and data abilities, among other benefits, will force buyers to invest in more technology.

As increased spending flows through the component and solution-provider value chain, we highlight these subcategories of technology solution providers as potential beneficiaries.

Graphic Processing Hardware: Companies like Nvidia, which specializes in graphic processing units (GPUs) and AI-driven technology, and General Electric, which builds physical assets essential to critical infrastructure, are at the forefront of hardware development for industrial metaverse technology.
Internet of Things & Connectivity: Increasing demand for comprehensive data acquisition presents a favorable outlook for the growth of IoT systems. Industrial IoT is expected to grow at a 20.5% CAGR through 2030.⁷Significant opportunities are in optics, encompassing a diverse range of sensors, and radio frequency (RF) and wireless components essential for network infrastructure development.
Creative Platforms: One of the segments with the most direct engagement with consumers, creative platforms focuses on advanced design and customization options. Companies in this segment, such as Unity with its comprehensive MR toolset and Microsoft with Azure Digital Twins, enable software professionals and aspiring designers to harness modeling technology. Also, likely to benefit in this segment are companies providing 3D modeling solutions, computer-aided design (CAD) systems, and turnkey graphic engines to build digital twins.
Data Analysis & Management: Commonly used purpose-built solutions and increased data capture and record keeping translate into spending on databases and similar tools. Real-time data streaming platforms, data lakes, warehousing solutions, and modular databases can benefit, as can data analytics solutions. Positioned to benefit are companies such as Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon, which run vast cloud franchises, as well as platform providers such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Twilio, ServiceNow. As an example, AWS IoT Core is a crucial service for IIoT because it helps manufacturers to process and visualize data efficiently.

Conclusion: Industrial Applications Are Commercializing the Metaverse

Given strong signs of early adoption and experimentation, we believe spending on immersive solutions by industrial customers could scale up quickly. Shifting global dynamics post-COVID, geopolitical tensions, and government initiatives like the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the CHIPS and Science Act create a unique investment cycle where automation and connectivity are not only a priority but also often a necessity. By the end of this decade, the Metaverse is potentially expected to be a multitrillion-dollar market, and we expect a substantial share of that market to be dedicated to industrial applications that grow rapidly with these tailwinds.⁸

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Siemens AG Announces €2 Billion Investment for Industrial Metaverse Expansion

Siemens AG, a global technology powerhouse, has announced a €2 billion investment plan to expand its manufacturing capacity, innovation labs, and education centers across its global sites. Siemens’ investment demonstrates its commitment to global expansion and technological advancements. The funds to be invested will be directed towards enhancing manufacturing capabilities, establishing cutting-edge innovation labs, and developing state-of-the-art education centers.

Siemens envisions the Industrial Metaverse as an integration of the digital and physical worlds, where machines, systems, and humans collaborate seamlessly. By leveraging its expertise in digitalization and industrial technology, Siemens aims to shape the future of industrial processes and play a leading role in this rapidly evolving industry.

Several brands and companies are embracing the metaverse and are spearheading their own initiatives as they seek to reap the multiple benefits this digital space has to offer. The German based companies move to invest heavily into the metaverse underlines the company’s endeavor to tap into the digital realm in a bid to unlock commercial opportunities.

We at SKOR Metaverse are thrilled about siemens investing €2 billion into the metaverse which highlights that the digital realm is gaining significant traction and this further reinforces the fact that the metaverse is not dead. Siemens initiative aligns with our vision to offer cutting edge experiences to our users by leveraging the latest technology.

SKOR Metaverse is a specialist e-sports gaming metaverse company driven by AI. By harnessing the power of artificial intelligence SKOR will immerse viewers in a whole new level of gaming and sports experiences by creating realistic scenarios for e-sports gaming, analyzing game data, and providing insights to help gamers improve their game.

We will host live physical e-sports tournaments. These tournaments will be live-streamed on the custom-built SKOR sports arenas, which will give users a unique experience in an immersive and interoptable metaverse.

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