Microsoft has revealed a new customer, Kawasaki, who will work with Microsoft to establish the ‘industrial metaverse,’ which would need workers to wear HoloLens headsets to assist with production, repairs, and supply chain management.
According to CNBC, HoloLens was released in 2016 and allows users to experience augmented reality. It will combine Microsoft technologies such as cloud computing to assist workers and managers produce goods more efficiently.
The startup wants to build a “digital twin” of a workspace to help factories speed up operations like mending. Managers will be able to scale up new manufacturing using the digital twin.
Kawasaki has teamed up with Heinz, which has announced that its ketchup factory will employ Microsoft’s industrial metaverse.
Jessica Hawk, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of mixed reality, told CNBC in an interview that the industrial metaverse is an example of what technology can do now. She went on to say that, “These are real world problems that these companies are dealing with … so having a technology solution that can help unblock the supply chain challenge, for example, is incredibly impactful.”
While Meta is working on a mixed reality headset, Microsoft has begun selling its mixed reality technology to businesses so that developers may create their own metaverse experiences.
The metaverse experience, according to Hawk, will function across a range of devices and platforms, which means it might work on 2D screens as well.
“We’re just really excited about it’s a moment in time that is unlocking so much innovation,” Hawk says.
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