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Making a digital twin visible is not a piece of cake. Although computer graphics has made enormous progress as we can see in gaming, at industry level, differently from a Consumer Metaverse, the rendering of the Digital Twin should convey a very precise meaning and has to be contextualised both …

Digital Transformation is not about having data representing a physical asset. It is about exploiting those data as if you were exploiting a physical asset. This means flanking the data with execution capabilities to have them become alive. This is usually done using Digital Twins. Again, this is becoming a …

I guess most of you remember this cartoon, showing a very concerned patient as the doctor informed him to have fixed his broken rib using Photoshop… The point made, at that time, was the increased use of Photoshop to alter reality, generating “fakes”. It made smile at that time, and …

The Metaverse is clearly inflated by a strong hype and this is not surprising. Actually, it is what happens to most new technologies that “need”to generate an hype to harvest investment funds. This connects directly to a growing number of startups entering this area. If you are interested in monitoring …

10. CityVerse vs Metaverse I mentioned a number of times that the Metaverse Initiative run by the Future Direction Committee is expecting a Metaverse where people live. That is not a utopian, or dystopian, view of the future with people drifting into the cyberspace leaving the physical one for most …

9. FiWare FiWare is an open platform, started with EU funds, targeting various areas, including Smart Cities. It aims at providing an environment for developing and operating services in an open and reusable ways (do not reinvent the wheel!). Digital Twins are at the core of the architecture and the …

6. Dubai – Metaverse as biz Dubai set up a “Dubai Metaverse Strategy” aiming to be one of the top world economic centres based on Metaverse. By 2030 the goal is to support 40,000 jobs and attract 1,000 companies focussing on Blockchain and Metaverse technologies, adding 4 billion $ to …

4. Tokyo – Street Digital Twins On yesterday post I mentioned “Urban Digital Twins”, as they are called in New York by Columbia University to refer to the use of Digital Twins in a urban environment. Today we go to the other side of the planet and meet “Street Digital …

3. New York – Urban Digital Twins It is a no brainer that the use of a digital space mirroring the physical space can decrease cost, improve efficiency and make possible a variety of new activities (and services) to the benefit of the citizienship. So far so good. However, when …

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 …