Industrial Metaverse

The industrial metaverse is the application of metaverse concepts—persistent, real-time, 3D virtual worlds—to the industrial sector. It is not about avatars in a social game; it's about creating a large-scale, interactive, and physically accurate simulation of an entire industrial ecosystem.

The link with digital twins

Digital twins are the foundational building blocks of the industrial metaverse. A digital twin might be a single vehicle or a single robot. The industrial metaverse is the virtual world where the digital twins of an entire fleet of vehicles, a whole factory of robots, and the complete supply chain network can all interact with each other in real time.

For transport

For transportation, this would allow a fleet manager to put on a VR headset and 'walk through' a virtual warehouse to see their digital twin vehicles being loaded. They could run a simulation to see how an entire city's traffic patterns (also a digital twin) would be affected by a change in their delivery routes. It provides a holistic, immersive environment for collaboration, simulation, and control at a scale that is impossible to manage on a simple 2D screen. It is the ultimate expression of the digital twin concept, connecting individual models into a single, interactive universe.