Enhance operations and cut costs

Virtual environments can help transform software development, manufacturing maintenance, product design and more

“Better-than-real-life” work environments can be possible: Extended reality (XR) headsets can, for example, enable agile software development teams around the world to access each other’s data, tools and insights in the metaverse for more effective collaboration. The metaverse can also help cut costs and increase the speed of maintenance at industrial facilities, product design and more. Instead of building a physical prototype (or flying people into industrial plants), build lower-cost virtual twins — which designers and engineers around the world can work on.

The metaverse’s virtual simulations can also help you to visualize better — with remarkable efficiency and continuous updates — supply chains, markets, investment strategies, workplace environments and more. You can, for example, test out new layouts for storefronts, warehouses, or manufacturing facilities in a virtual world that you can control.


Where tech components can fit in companies’ strategies

Companies are looking to metaverse technologies to help enhance both operational efficiencies and agility. This trend could accelerate as XR headsets become more comfortable and photorealistic avatars become common. Collaboration, oversight and decision making may increasingly take place in virtual environments that are lower cost, lower risk and more accessible than physical ones.

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Deploy tech you can trust

Trustworthy tech requires the right hardware, software and deployment model — which can be more or less decentralized depending on the outcomes you seek, your employee readiness and your chosen governance model.

Gather and govern data

Reliable metaverse environments should have reliable data. They can often gather and share data too. The right approach can help identify valuable data, gather or synthesize it, distribute it and protect it — with compliance and respect for privacy. Integration with the IoT can often help accelerate value creation from data.

Oversee to help enhance performance

Oversight can do more than help manage risks. It can also help monitor headsets and environments to enhance performance and ROI today, and to help prepare for even more valuable deployments tomorrow.

Integrate GenAI

Generative AI (GenAI) can help increase the value and speed-to-value of the metaverse for operations. It can help power virtual assistants and help generate customized environments for remote collaboration, product design, upskilling and more.

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