The Industrial Metaverse, are we there yet? with Lori Hufford at Bentley & Richard Kerris at NVIDIA.

” … We’re not there yet … we can see it’s outlines … we’re seeing what it can do … it’s really going to take off … so embrace it.”

That’s my ‘ultra’ short summary from this excellent 25min chat with Lori Hufford, VP Engineering Collaboration at Bentley & Richard Kerris, VP Omniverse Developer Ecosystem at NVIDIA.

Following on from the Spring 2023 NVIDIA GTC panel disucssion on “Are we there yet? A status check on the Industrial Metaverse”, I caught up with both of them to find out more …

During the course of our chat I got to ask both of them the following questions;

– When it comes to the Industrial Metaverse, are we there yet?

– What have been the key achievements in this past year?

– Making the Industrial Metaverse a reality is a big task, what are some of the challenges we need to address in the next 6 / 12 months?

– What is meant by “you need to open up the data silos … the ‘dark data’ that’s out there …?

– As cool as all the ‘art of the possible’ with the Industrial Metaverse is, you have to be able to integrate all this into existing workflows… How?

– During the panel, the comment was made by Michele from BMW … ‘This has to be fun’… to attract the new generation of workers … explain?

– And I had to ask Lori, “What is 4D?”

And we closed out with me asking Lori and Richard, what’s the one bit of advice you would companies thinking about the Industrial Metaverse today?

It’s one good long and very enjoyable chat. Thanks Lori & Richard.

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