So, how is the Industrial Metaverse connected to, or even a fall out of, the Digital Transformation? Companies that have executed (or are executing) their digital transformation have created a de-facto digital mirror of their operation in the physical space. Clearly this digital world might mirror only a subset of …
Read More »Digital Twins for Digital Cities: towards the CityVerse – II
2. London’s Metaverse(s) London is the playground for several metaverse ideas, bringing together the municipality, content providers, service providers and advanced technology supplier. There is not -yet- a plan to create a London’s Metaverse but it is interesting to look at the variety of -I would call them- experiments going …
Read More »Scenarios: working in the Metaverse – II
Continues from previous post – The workplace in the Metaverse It is now a few months and I have a pretty good idea of what it means working in the metaverse, or better I should say in this company metaverse. Talking to colleagues that have experienced other companies metaverses I …
Read More »A glimpse into the next decade – IX
8. The future of shopping Retail store profitability is at an all time low. The competition from on-line shopping has put out of business thousands of stores (45 retail chains in the US went bankrupt in the last three years) and drastically decreased the EBIT (Earnings Before Interest and Taxes) …
Read More »Why should we use AI? – I
I have been asked to contribute to a paper on AGI, Artificial General Intelligence, that will be published this Fall by the Computer Society (I’ll let you know when it is out). Specifically, I have been asked to look into the reasons why AI is an opportunity. I like to …
Read More »The chip and I
I was really impressed by an article on Neoscope about a woman who has been suffering from epilepsy since she was 3yo. She underwent on a trial to have a chip implanted in her brain to monitor the prodrome of an attack and react to stymie it. The chip worked …
Read More »Apple Vision Pro: Future 1.0 is (almost) here
Very seldom I comment immediately on a new product, preferring to wait for waters to calm and experience to be available. Yet, today, I make an exception. Yes, I know there will be a gazillion comments on the Apple Vision Pro announcement, many way more qualified then mine, I just …
Read More »Exploring ideas to foster the Metaverse – IV
Present metaverse(s) In the IEEE FDC Metaverse initiative we distinguish between the experience metaverses and the industrial metaverses. The former are created to provide a digital world where participants can interact to get an experience, like gaming, social gatherings, sharing the experience of arts (music, theatre, ..), sharing an experience …
Read More »Exploring ideas to foster the Metaverse – III
Metaverse(s) characteristics If the ones discussed in the previous post had some characteristics of a metaverse, to the point of being proto-metaverses, in the last two – three years we have seen the rise of spaces (and applications) that are much more in line with with the present idea of …
Read More »Good news, bad news: 5G speed is declining everywhere
As it is often the case, a news can be seen as a good one or a bad one, depending on the point of view. The graphic shows the decrease/increase in average download speed in the last year -December 2021 vs December 2022- in various Countries around the world. At …
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