Metaverse

The Executive Meeting Space in metaverse will enhance the participants’ meeting experience by making them feel like they are in the same fully immersive space. It will be customised according to your company’s brand and other requirements, and it will allow content sharing to be more engaging that in a Teams meeting, or even a regular face-to-face meeting.

Our vision of the Executive Meeting Space is Operations Room that can be created for different needs and purposes: Executive Board meetings, meeting with partners, project room, In-situation room for crisis management or for data driven decisions and leadership needs.

For example, for Executive Meeting space would have latest report dashboards, data, 3D objects, and documents available for board members, and ability to show videos and add interactive elements such as voting. Organizers would be able to invite right people to join them in the space and it is possible to facilitate the presentation with tools.

We also want to bring metaverse’s benefits in the face-to-face meeting lifecycle for the people who are visiting customers’ offices.

This pre-meeting experience can include:

• Get to know the people who you are meeting in the form of holograms
• Meeting agenda
• Security, parking and building information: where and how to arrive, what to know in advance
• Sharing meeting materials in advance for reading and commenting
• Post-meeting follow-up

This metaverse solution enables onboarding new employees even before they start working.

When an employee has signed the contract, they are given access to new employees’ metaverse where they can learn about their new workplace and get to know about processes, buildings and layouts in 3D model – especially about those relevant to their work. New employee can watch videos and view other content in the right context that will reduce the real onboarding time. They can even meet other employees as avatars. This way they already feel familiar to the site from the day one.

We can also add speech to text, translation services and custom voice with text to speech that can be used to create a multi-lingual personal and people imitating bots that understand and speak on person’s language.

The great quality pre-onboarding experience makes new employees feel welcome, sense the spirit of the company and know that they have just started to work for a first-class employer.

The new shopping experience will allow the user to see their physical products in detail, seeing the colours, shapes, and sizes as in real life. This can also include videos and interactive content, making shopping not only easy but exciting. People can shop for both virtual and physical goods while in the experience.

This will bring even more value when shopping for holidays and other experiences. Hotels, resorts, and amusement parks digital twins show premises and offering as virtual experience in the metaverse, where people can move around, reserve tickets or rooms, buy goods, tag locations for their interest list and interact with games.

Customers can also engage with other visitors, holograms (static guides repeating information) or talk to interactive bots and actual people from sales or customer services who have been holoported to the metaverse.

Instead of using drivers vehicles can be operated remotely. These operators use haptic devices and controls such as haptic gloves and control replicas to bring in all required senses such as vision and touch. They can jump between vehicles quickly, reducing transit times needed during the switch. Lidar-scanning can feed operator information about vehicle’s surroundings.

In the future Artificial Intelligence (AI) can automate vehicle operations, and operator can be still used to monitor and take control in unexpected situations.

Remote assistance and maintenance work will benefit from Mixed Reality. This is already real life and routine via Dynamics Remote Assist and other RA providers. We will see the use of Mixed Reality and bringing unambiguous AI and computing to more scenarios where we need for more information at hand (documents, instructions, how-to instructions, schematics, designs and so on) and remote expertise to consult.

This will see lots of use cases scaling multiple industries – from factories to power plants, electric network to retail stores and medical use cases.

Using digital twins of sites, equipment and processes can be used to run simulations and plan & test new procedures, changes, and ways to operate to enhance effectiveness and bring an entirely new set of tools to work with.

This could include use cases such as:

• Cargo handling
• Building maintenance
• Optimizing warehouse or retail operations
• Architecture and construction

Digital twins can also be used to train and rehearse scenarios with people without interfering the normal operations.

Digital twins of existing physical spaces are easy to create using simple 3D scanning. They enable numerous business cases depending on the type of the venue and the digital layer we want to build on top of the 3D model. Some examples:

• Hotels, restaurants, entertainment and real estates: Scan your most impressive properties into 3D models to enable innovative marketing, better customer experience and new business models.
• Virtual galleries and shops: Turn your physical gallery or shop into an eCommerce solution. 
• Hospitals and other public spaces: Helping visitors to navigate, providing check-in experience, showing customer history data and other functionalities in one place.  
• Guiding company employees: Any company can scan their office buildings and provide the traditional intranet type of content on top of that, in context and location-based, which makes finding information easier for the end-user. 
• Employee training and onboarding: The intranet type of approach of scanning offices can be extended to any environment from car repair shops to restaurant kitchens and hospitals for training purposes.

Digital twins provide a platform for numerous business scenarios that can be imagined only after seeing one. For example, we can bring data and AI on top of the models or jump inside of them using VR headsets. Thus, we encourage every company to get started with our quick and dir… productive proof of concept project, that takes just weeks to complete.