A scanned object, or building in some cases is not a digital twin, it’s a digital representation and static. It serves a purpose by populating the space and depending on the level of the scan will only be the exterior facing, or it will include the interior structure allowing you to fully traverse through it.

IOT & Metaverse

Pulling a digital twin into the metaverse not only allows you to recreate it in full with live data, you can place it into the rest of the rendered world where live data also is fed — meaning it will operate or behave exactly how it would in the real world. Want to model how a car’s characteristics would behave with the same conditions that are taking place right now (weather, population, other vehicles on the road) then you can in the metaverse.

Digital Twin & Metaverse

“The metaverse is this digital world that lives alongside our physical one and allows us to live, work and play alongside each other. And digital twins are the foundations that the metaverse will be built on.”

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<figure><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/max/500/1*J_fKtriJRLWogV-eDOaOsg" width="692" height="346"></figure>Some time ago I wrote a piece on Forbes about the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/theopriestley/2015/12/08/a-series-of-unfortunate-tech-predictions-artificial-intelligence-and-iot-are-inseparable" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" dir="ltr">Internet of Things together with Artificial Intelligence</a> and how they would be inseparable. It’s maybe time to revisit that in the scope of the metaverse.The digital twin market was projected to grow to $29.57 billion by 2025, that’s a growth rate of CAGR 61.94% between 2020 to 2025 but a new report by Grand View Research suggests that size is anticipated to reach $86.09 billion by 2028.The growth in the digital twin market is mostly driven by Industry 4.0 use cases and the increasing demand for asset health optimisation and predictive maintenance, a need for Industrial IoT solutions, and the rise of smart city and smart building infrastructure ensuring efficient energy consumption.These technologies cross various industries such as manufacturing, automotive, smart cities and healthcare to increase their productivity, predict maintenance schedules and failures and meet the on-demand production target with the existing ageing assets. It’s no longer enough to think about the Internet of Things and sensor data but how to make use of the real-time data in new ways.For example, with digital twin implementation across the automotive value chain, the automotive manufacturers can have real-time on-road field insights and can predict the failure of any such vehicle equipment for better manufacturing performance before getting it delivered to the customers.Smart cities alone were supposed to account for 2 billion sensors and connected things and this in itself will push what we think about digital twins to the limit, meaning we need to consider something bigger to handle it.Enter the metaverse.When people consider digital twins in relation to the metaverse there are potentially three things that spring to mind.<OL><LI>It’s my avatar</LI><LI>It’s a scanned object through photogrammetry</LI><LI>It’s the digital twin with live data</LI></OL>It’s #3 for those at the back.A scanned object, or building in some cases is not a digital twin, it’s a digital representation and static. It serves a purpose by populating the space and depending on the level of the scan will only be the exterior facing, or it will include the interior structure allowing you to fully traverse through it.Epic Games is already exploring the potential of linking its gaming worlds to digital twins via an expansion into the world of architecture and urbanism.<BLOCKQUOTE>“The metaverse is this digital world that lives alongside our physical one and allows us to live, work and play alongside each other. And digital twins are the foundations that the metaverse will be built on.”David-Weir McCall</BLOCKQUOTE>Where Epic falls short is that they’re looking purely at a hybrid of 2 and 3 above, without the live data feeds. Buildings and city planning infrastructure is one thing, it’s another where there is real metadata and live feeds from sensors overlaid at the same time. That’s where Nvidia and Omniverse might hold some of that promise.Where things get very interesting is where a digital twin of an object, piece of machinery, a car, even a plane is built via the available schematics and represented fully, complete with live feeds of every sensor it contains in real-time. The interpretation of a physical object in digital form with overlaid data allows for really complex simulations to occur beyond just predictive maintenance that IOT and digital twin platforms can provide.Many are extremely clunky and slow because they insist on using headsets to convey the information in 3D space, whether in VR or XR by using Hololens.Pulling a digital twin into the metaverse not only allows you to recreate it in full with live data, you can place it into the rest of the rendered world where live data also is fed — meaning it will operate or behave exactly how it would in the real world. Want to model how a car’s characteristics would behave with the same conditions that are taking place right now (weather, population, other vehicles on the road) then you can in the metaverse.Want to see how a port authority would be able to deal with a tsunami while there are ships berthed and a couple of tankers anchored beyond? You can in the metaverse with real-time data, physics and digital twins of every object and associated metadata.Middleware like Improbable could become crucial in terms of sheer compute power required. But certainly this is where artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning will be critical in managing the influx of data in an already complex environment where real world rules like physics will be applied.<BLOCKQUOTE>These simulations can evaluate “what-if” questions or seek insights and optimizations from massively complex environments using the power of the cloud — something impossible to achieve by simply monitoring the physical environment alone. Once these simulations are complete, you can apply insights from the simulated copy to the real digital twin and synchronize those changes back to the physical environment to realize the benefits. You can even create and apply autonomous systems to the digital twin to automate routine tasks and enhance them with systems that learn and improve over time.</BLOCKQUOTE>Microsoft’s vision is aligned here. The exciting part is when you can apply those insights from the simulations in the metaverse back into the real world.When the metaverse affects the real world, the real world will take notice of the metaverse.

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Some time ago I wrote a piece on Forbes about the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/theopriestley/2015/12/08/a-series-of-unfortunate-tech-predictions-artificial-intelligence-and-iot-are-inseparable">Internet of Things together with Artificial Intelligence </a>and how they would be inseparable. It’s maybe time to revisit that in the scope of the metaverse.

The digital twin market was projected to grow to $29.57 billion by 2025, that’s a growth rate of CAGR 61.94% between 2020 to 2025 but a new report by Grand View Research suggests that size is anticipated to reach $86.09 billion by 2028.

The growth in the digital twin market is mostly driven by Industry 4.0 use cases and the increasing demand for asset health optimisation and predictive maintenance, a need for Industrial IoT solutions, and the rise of smart city and smart building infrastructure ensuring efficient energy consumption.

These technologies cross various industries such as manufacturing, automotive, smart cities and healthcare to increase their productivity, predict maintenance schedules and failures and meet the on-demand production target with the existing ageing assets. It’s no longer enough to think about the Internet of Things and sensor data but how to make use of the real-time data in new ways.

For example, with digital twin implementation across the automotive value chain, the automotive manufacturers can have real-time on-road field insights and can predict the failure of any such vehicle equipment for better manufacturing performance before getting it delivered to the customers.

Smart cities alone were supposed to account for 2 billion sensors and connected things and this in itself will push what we think about digital twins to the limit, meaning we need to consider something bigger to handle it.

Enter the metaverse.

When people consider digital twins in relation to the metaverse there are potentially three things that spring to mind.

<ol><li>It’s my avatar </li><li>It’s a scanned object through photogrammetry </li><li>It’s the digital twin with live data </li> </ol>

A scanned object, or building in some cases is not a digital twin, it’s a digital representation and static. It serves a purpose by populating the space and depending on the level of the scan will only be the exterior facing, or it will include the interior structure allowing you to fully traverse through it.

Epic Games is already exploring the potential of linking its gaming worlds to digital twins via an expansion into the world of architecture and urbanism.

“The metaverse is this digital world that lives alongside our physical one and allows us to live, work and play alongside each other. And digital twins are the foundations that the metaverse will be built on.”

Where Epic falls short is that they’re looking purely at a hybrid of 2 and 3 above, without the live data feeds. Buildings and city planning infrastructure is one thing, it’s another where there is real metadata and live feeds from sensors overlaid at the same time. That’s where Nvidia and Omniverse might hold some of that promise.

Where things get very interesting is where a digital twin of an object, piece of machinery, a car, even a plane is built via the available schematics and represented fully, complete with live feeds of every sensor it contains in real-time. The interpretation of a physical object in digital form with overlaid data allows for really complex simulations to occur beyond just predictive maintenance that IOT and digital twin platforms can provide.

Many are extremely clunky and slow because they insist on using headsets to convey the information in 3D space, whether in VR or XR by using Hololens.

Pulling a digital twin into the metaverse not only allows you to recreate it in full with live data, you can place it into the rest of the rendered world where live data also is fed — meaning it will operate or behave exactly how it would in the real world. Want to model how a car’s characteristics would behave with the same conditions that are taking place right now (weather, population, other vehicles on the road) then you can in the metaverse.

Want to see how a port authority would be able to deal with a tsunami while there are ships berthed and a couple of tankers anchored beyond? You can in the metaverse with real-time data, physics and digital twins of every object and associated metadata.

Middleware like Improbable could become crucial in terms of sheer compute power required. But certainly this is where artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning will be critical in managing the influx of data in an already complex environment where real world rules like physics will be applied.

These simulations can evaluate “what-if” questions or seek insights and optimizations from massively complex environments using the power of the cloud — something impossible to achieve by simply monitoring the physical environment alone. Once these simulations are complete, you can apply insights from the simulated copy to the real digital twin and synchronize those changes back to the physical environment to realize the benefits. You can even create and apply autonomous systems to the digital twin to automate routine tasks and enhance them with systems that learn and improve over time.

Microsoft’s vision is aligned here. The exciting part is when you can apply those insights from the simulations in the metaverse back into the real world.

When the metaverse affects the real world, the real world will take notice of the metaverse.

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