Industrial Metaverse: Integration of Physical and Digital Worlds
Over the past few months, “metaverse” has blown up on telecom headlines. As an immersive and interactive medium, metaverse makes it possible that digital representations of people are able to interact with each other. It’s a world that real machines and factories, cities and transportations are reflected in the virtual world. It brings the physical and digital world together. But how can it connect to industrial internet business?
Acceleration of China’s Industrial Metaverse Technology in 2022
It was announced at 2022 China Internet Conference Industrial Metaverse Forum that China’s industrial metaverse technology has been accelerated, and a number of technical innovations are discovered in industrial internet platform, simulation software and so on.
Technological Breakthroughs and Application Innovations
On the one hand, key metaverse supportive technologies, such as edge computing, digital twin and blockchain have made breakthroughs. The metaverse gives more depth to this idea of digital communication and collaboration. Platform-based design, intelligent manufacturing, personalized customization, network collaboration, and service extension emerged one after another.
Policy Advocacy and Experience Improvement in Industrial Internet
On the other hand, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in China advocates the acceleration of applied industrial internet platform. There are 28 dual platform domestically. Combined with virtual reality and augmented reality technologies, the interactive experience connected to industrial scenes, on-site production processes, enterprise operation management decisions, production resource optimization, and product lifecycle management has been continuously improved.
Challenges and Development Prospects of Industrial Metaverse
However, it’s also clear that industrial metaverse is still developing. Easy and flexible solutions are needed to develop and cultivate the metaverse, which can lead to large corporations that offers tailor-made, individual solutions. Easily adapted hardware and software, digital platform where solutions can be found quickly, cyber security…Industrial metaverse in China still have a long way to go.
