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 »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 …
Read More »How can we access the Metaverse?
The ideal Metaverse would be a seamless presence, from a perceptual point of view, of the digital space and the physical space, overlapping in such a way that you no longer distinguish one from the other. The perception of the physical space is a no brainer, we have been born …
Read More »From Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 – V
In the previous post on this series I considered a few technology areas that support the “operation” of Industry 5.0 (noting that these are already applied in Industry 4.0). Let’s now move on to take a look at technologies that are likely to “foster” the transition from Industry 4.0 to …
Read More »What will “knowledge” mean in 2050? – II
2. Transmission of knowledge Knowledge has to be sharable and has to be understandable. The knowledge in a brilliant brain that does not communicate with anyone else is not useful (for all practical purposes it is non-existent). Similarly, a knowledge stored in data centres that is never accessed is completely useless. …
Read More »How smart should the Metaverse be?
The Metaverse has become the talk of the town, particularly so after Facebook decided to change their name to Meta. I am currently involved in setting up an event in Milan targeting a very specific industry, the Lottery industry (can we call it “an industry”?), and I was asked to …
Read More »A glimpse on 2025 – III
5. Friction-less communication Digitization is now everywhere: our world of atoms is cresting a parallel world of bits at an unprecedented rate: some 1.7 Mbyte per person per second! This figure includes everything, data created by taking a photo with a smartphone, songs, mails, tweets, design of industrial components, tracking …
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