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On the way to the industrial metaverse

Using metaverse technologies to achieve operational excellence in the industrial workplace

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The gap between digital and real life is steadily reducing, and the boundaries between these two worlds are becoming more and more porous.

So as digital becomes an integral part of our lives, how will this evolve, as we now look ahead to the next evolution – the metaverse – in which we see another convergence – that between the real and the simulated?

The current promise of the metaverse is that the simulation of the “real” will be quick and complete. Is this a realistic approach and how could it contribute to achieving sustainability? Will the virtual environment become the “master of the game”?

These are serious questions and lead us to a number of searching questions and propositions, which are covered in this paper.

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Jacques Bacry

Executive Vice President – Digital Continuity & Convergence Group Offer Leader
Jacques is Digital Continuity Group Offer Leader, with an objective to define and execute the strategy in this dynamic domain including PLM and Digital twin. His work is focused on unleashing the promise of end-to-end digital continuity across the entire product lifecycle, by seamlessly integrating ideation, engineering, manufacturing, and aftersales into one unified digital collaboration. He is a champion of PLM as an enabler for Industry 4.0 because it integrates the development of products, production, and services.

Alexandre Embry

Vice President, Head of the Capgemini AI Robotics and Experiences Lab.
Alexandre leads a global team of experts who explore emerging tech trends and devise at-scale solutioning across various horizons, sectors and geographies, with a focus on asset creation, IP, patents and go-to market strategies. Alexandre specializes in exploring and advising C-suite executives and their organizations on the transformative impact of emerging digital tech trends. He is passionate about improving the operational efficiency of organizations across all industries, as well as enhancing the customer and employee digital experience. He focuses on how the most advanced technologies, such as embodied AI, physical AI, AI robotics, polyfunctional robots & humanoids, digital twin, real time 3D, spatial computing, XR, IoT can drive business value, empower people, and contribute to sustainability by increasing autonomy and enhancing human-machine interaction.