We are here at AWS re:Invent.
And one of the topics that we're covering is the industrial metaverse.
I have two experts by my side here.
BCG’s Dr. Tilman Buchner.
He is Global Leader, Innovation Center
for Operations and Partner and Director at BCG. and Mr.
Bill Foy, Director Solutions
and Go to Market Automotive and Manufacturing at AWS
Great to see you both.
Dr. Buchner, before we go too much further in the conversation,
what is the industrial metaverse?
Well, first the industrial metaverse is a concept.
It actually helps companies to do things
they couldn't do before five years ago.
Let me give you four examples.
There's one opportunity to really enhance
the collaboration across engineering processes, which means
you could really reduce the time in these engineering processes.
Secondly, it's about simulation.
We could accelerate the time needed to do simulation,
for example, by a factor of ten thousands.
Third, it's about virtualization.
Thanks to enhancements in photorealistic rendering,
you can close the simulation-to-reality gap.
And last but not least, it's about synchronization.
So now we can make sure
that the real world and the virtual world is always in sync.
So based on this description, Mr.
Foy, how do you see the enabling technologies of the industrial metaverse?
Yeah.
So I think the cloud is obviously one of the enabling technologies.
And as we think about like IOT and the devices there-
So, yes, Internet of Things- and then virtualization is really important.
And then additionally, as we think about
like rendering and these types of areas,
I think that's really important for enabling technologies.
So if we think about the industrial metaverse,
how do you close this gap between simulation and reality?
Dr. Buchner. Actually,
the industrial metaverse benefits from the enhancements in compute power
because the GPUs chipsets, they actually enable now that we have
these significant improvements in computer generated imagery
which allows us to do ray tracing effects, which at the
end enables us to render things so that they look like as in reality.
And this is what we call closing the simulation-to-reality gap.
Mr. Foy,
How do you see that, and how do you see closing this gap on a time horizon?
Yeah, I think the the services that we're creating to help enable,
I think within two years you'll see a big difference from where we are today.
So you'll start to see some some things trickle out as use cases,
but within two years.
Okay.
Mr. Bill Foy and BCG’s Dr.
Tilman Buchner, thank you both.