(ChinaIT.com News) There are many legends about the metaverse, a 3D world accessed through VR glasses, where people use virtual avatars to play games and make friends; a supernatural space that is not subject to any laws and regulations; a large factory room games… how do you see the Metaverse?
In the metaverse with thousands of people and faces, how can we keep the truth from the false and see the whole picture?
Echoing the same frequency as the fifth CIIE, at the Microsoft Envision Global Business Leaders Online Forum jointly organized by Accenture, Microsoft, and Avanade, Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Omni-Channel DivisionXu MingqiangManaging Director, Enterprise Technology Innovation Division, Accenture Greater ChinaXiao ZhaolinHead of Intelligent Manufacturing and Sustainable Development Solutions, Avanade Greater ChinaWang HongqiangLet’s look forward to the future form of the metaverse together, so that the metaverse can truly “from science fiction to reality” and truly “reshape the business world”.
Entertainment and social networking are just one side of the metaverse. The three major business formats of the metaverse, oriented to consumers, commerce, and industry, are entering the development period of product upgrades and integrated applications through technological innovation.
At the beginning of November, the five departments of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the State Administration of Radio and Television, and the State General Administration of Sports jointly issued the “Action Plan for the Integration and Development of Virtual Reality and Industry Applications”.The “Industrial Convergence” of the Metaverse is gaining momentum, from the concept level to the industrial scale target of over 350 billion in 2026. The imagination space and application scenarios for the metaverse will be in the “explosion period” for a long time, but is the current technical system sufficient to support it?
Wang Hongqiang, head of intelligent manufacturing and sustainable development solutions for Avanade Greater China, believes: “The digital foundation supporting the entire Metaverse, including the computing, storage, and data platform capabilities of the cloud platform, is mature enough. In the future, Metaverse will also cooperate with A variety of physical scenes are integrated,New scenarios will drive new technologies, business scenarios and demands will be able to provide greater development space for the algorithm layer, hardware layer, and decision-making layer. “For example, the sensing capabilities of the Internet of Things are being iterated for “more senses of the simulated human”. Microsoft HoloLens has also been upgraded to cloud rendering. After efficient compression, the 3D simulation interactive scene is transmitted to the device to reduce heat generation and improve the wearing experience. .
According to the investment status of global investors in the metaverse in 2022, the ecological development of start-ups is very vigorous, and providers of content, algorithms, hardware, etc. are blooming.As Wang Hongqiang shared, Dachang provides a robust and scalable digital base, on top of which needsMulti-party cooperation to build a technology ecosystem.
Taking the Microsoft platform as an example, Xu Mingqiang introduced: “The application of Metaverse has multiple layers of technical requirements, and each layer requires the support of many partners, ranging from small IoT sensors to large consulting and implementation projects such as Accenture and Avanade. Partners who have made great achievements at the end, and jointly bring efficient solutions to customers.” Therefore,Metaverse is not a big game, and in the future, Metaverse needs to build integrated comprehensive system capabilitiesEliminate data, business, and even the isolated islands between metaverses and metaverses, and create an integrated, diverse, and collaborative metaverse with unified protocols, interfaces, and rules.
Xiao Zhaolin continued to imagine: “What we need to do in the next ten years, in addition to the vigorous development of technology and the integration of applications, we also need to make effortsBuilding a Responsible Metaverse, From the multi-dimensional co-construction of privacy security, intellectual property protection, wearing experience update, sustainability, etc., trust and people-oriented will be written into the future of Metaverse. “
Microsoft’s digital base has 9 layers of connections from digital space to physical space——Physical sensing – Internet of things connection – digital modeling – location correspondence – data analysis – intelligent analysis – logic simulation – mixed realityand then viaapplication layerto act on production. The industrial metaverse scenario is to create a closed loop of benefits from perception, analysis, decision-making, and execution.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, a world-renowned robot manufacturer, is using the Internet of Things and HoloLens mixed reality technology to enable robots on the production line to sense and automatically report their own temperature, current, voltage and other information at any time, and do investigation and diagnosis before accidents occur ; At the same time, the on-site staff and remote experts are connected in real time, and the remote spatial annotation helps to quickly troubleshoot production line failures and quickly put into production. Similarly, staff of medical institutions also wear HoloLens to obtain remote maintenance support from GE medical experts to ensure that medical equipment with high usage rates such as CT “do not stop”.
In Microsoft’s Altspace virtual space, Accenture’s 720,000 employees around the world collaborated remotely under the epidemic. Employees can communicate face-to-face with digital avatars as usual, and multi-person collaborative projects such as new employee training and remote meetings can be carried out immersively and interactively here. For example, employees from all over the world can watch the same large supply chain control screen in real time in the virtual 3D space, so that the production trend of the entire business can be seen at a glance, and real-time adjustments to business trends can be realized.
The UK zero-carbon industrial cluster project jointly launched by Microsoft, Accenture and Avanade is the presentation of the combined application of Microsoft’s multi-layer technology stack. This industrial cluster is composed of more than a dozen heavy industries such as chemical industry, oil and gas, and thermal power plants. Carbon emissions account for about 12% of the UK. There is an urgent need to reduce carbon emissions, and it is also necessary to consider how to successfully convert traditional thermal power into hydrogen energy supply.with the help ofMicrosoft Digital Twin Technology and Platform Capabilitiesfirst of all, conduct unified modeling of multiple information in the entire park, such as organization, energy, partnerships, and business processes, to ensure that the isolated digital systems and data are connected, and the new energy suppliers, consumers, and industrial park managers Collaborate with a chain to work; on this basis,real-time integrationEnergy production, consumption, supply chain data, as well as enterprise operations, park policy management data, in the digital twin spaceSimulationThe impact of new energy switching on production,predictThe future trend of hydrogen resources such as offshore wind power, whether the supply of new energy can meet the production demand, and whether the return on investment is reasonable.
In the face of a complex system composed of multiple subsystems, traditional and single digital means are not enough to solve massive data and decision-making problems, and multi-layer assistance is needed to obtain optimal global decision-making.
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