A Digital Twin is a mirror of an entity. This can be a physical entity or a process, an organisation. The degree of mirroring, depends on the objective. You may want to mirror the functionality and shape of a turbine but the color of the various components are completely irrelevant …
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8. Santa Monica I am using Santa Monica (LA, California) as last examples of cities that have chosen to create a digital twin and a virtual world mimicking (part of) their world because it shows both the difficulty in succeeding and the “waves” of interest that metaverse is generating (meaning: …
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7. Shanghai Shanghai is the largest city in China, it is also its business engine. A few years ago I was vacationing in Shanghai with my wife and one of my kids and I still remember the 3D Shanghai showcase at the Urban Planning Exhibition Hall. It is a gigantic …
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5. Seul – powering virtual Seul Back in 2021 the City Government of Seul, South Korea, committed 3 million US$ to create a digital twin of Seul, as the first step to create the city Metaverse. In June 2022 the first CityVerse was open to the public (watch the clip). …
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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 »Metaverse: beyond the hype
There is no doubt that Metaverse exploded from a seldom used word to the talk of the town, courtesy of … Meta, I would say, in the last year. As shown in the graphic, the Metaverse is rooted in the past, at least some of its components were alreadt around …
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Conclusions: Good vibes from current industrial metaverse It is appropriate to conclude this lengthy discussion on the Industrial Metaverse with a look at what are the results obtained by companies that made the shift (in most cases it is a partial shift, so the benefits are evaluated against the part …
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Conclusions: Tricky issues across empowerment and control The industrial metaverse is a working space, a new working space. As for any working space resources need to be trained. Robots need to be able to operate via their digital twins, interactions with one another need to take place via their respective …
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3. Digital Twins The metaverse mirrors, up to a point, the physical space. many objects in the metaverse are mirroring physical entities (in a broad sense to include abstract entities, like a city or a manufacturing process). This mirroring element is well represented by a digital twin. If what is …
Read More »Time to build your own Personal Digital Twin
According to some, 2023 is the year we are starting to see adoption of Personal Digital Twins -PDT- as well as the creation of our own personal digital twin. I have seen this technology gaining steam over the past two years, the European Community has funded a study to create …
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