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Keynote Speakers

Talk Title: The industrial Metaverse – supercharging industrial efficiencies towards sustainability

Abstract: The industrial Metaverse is key element allowing industrial companies to leapfrog their competitiveness while ensuring sustainability and great access to tech. Many of the building blocks required for its realization are in existence already today but are not consistently leveraged. A handful of examples shows how much innovation can be already triggered this way while companies embracing this realize a competitive advantage. Industrial Metaverse is not a single solution but rather a digitalization journey. To support this, Siemens has started the Siemens Xcelerator open business platform, allowing an ecosystem of capabilities to work together, while helping companies to accelerate their digital transformation towards the industrial metaverse era. The user centric approach of the industrial metaverse also lowers the entry barriers for non-experts allowing more stakeholders to engage in the decision processes leading to better and faster engineering decisions. Customer interviews suggest the validity of this approach and that many companies want to embrace the industrial metaverse to stay competitive. The success of of the industrial metaverse, however, will benefit from more standardization to connect the existing logical islands across the complete ecosystem of providers.

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Talk Title: We need a Super Cockpit for the Mind

Abstract: In addition to providing an update on the work of the Virtual World Society, Dr. Furness will recount some of his history in developing the Super Cockpit for the USAF in the 70s-80s. He will then convolve that with the current direction of the metaverse and AI communities to propose a new cockpit that this now needed to navigate our future in the metaverse: the Super Cockpit for the Mind.

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  • Tom Furness, University of Washington, Virtual World Society

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Talk Title: Challenges of Metaverse Silicon Health

Abstract: The metaverse is envisioned as a shared digital world that integrates artificial intelligence, edge computing and 5G networks to allow interoperability between virtual environments and the use of AI. Due to these demanding requirements, metaverse is leading to an explosion in the adoption of emerging silicon technology nodes and 3D packages. This keynote will discuss the lifetime challenges for these emerging technologies needed by metaverse, and how to optimize silicon health using prognostics, analytic solutions, utilized for improving quality and yield; and also address aging and degradation challenges for improved RAS, security and functional safety.

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Talk Title: The Metaverse as an Hypothetical Exercise

Abstract: Metaverse is a gradient. Some understand it as if people might choose to spend 24/7 inside a Virtual Reality headset. That means most of the Maslow pyramid needs would need to be supported inside these platforms. And despite that might turn out to not be true that people spend 24/7 inside a headset. Only the hypothetical exercise is already very important to see what could go wrong but also what are the actual needs of users when they start wearing HMDs as consumer products.

In this talk we will go around these possible needs for the future users and discuss what’s missing on the pipeline to get there.

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Talk Title: A Path for a Metaverse Standard

Abstract: A standard is often a challenging undertaking because of the need to reconcile diverse requirements from the potential user communities and the adoption of competing technologies.

Metaverse standardization is more challenging than most because there is no agreement on what a metaverse actually is, the large number of potential user communities and their often unexpressed needs, and the immaturity of some enabling technologies and their fast evolution.

While the identification of user needs is important, it is possible to inquire about the basic nature of metaverse, develop a methodology, functional requirements, and specify a flexible platform open to expect sweeping requirements and technologies.

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Panel Sessions

Metaverse for Education — Panel 1 

Abstract: Metaverse and generative AI provide unparalleled opportunities to couple specifically trained expert large language models (LLM’s) to Avatars in virtual and Augmented Reality learning environments. When combined with pedagogies such as Project and Case-based learning we see the potential to customise Metaverse learning spaces populated by expert avatars and intelligent artefacts which are powered by back-end LLM technologies. Imagine the educational potential of learning in a fully immersive Metaverse scenario where you can interact with both other human agents to develop new engineering solutions, consulting design expert avatars, interacting with intelligent virtual robotic devices, and manipulating virtual equipment through haptic feedback. These educational scenarios are already on the near horizon and will be a reality in the next decade. This panel explores these Metaverse powered education futures from a variety of perspectives ranging from the disciplinary to the philosophical.

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Digital Twins and the Metaverse — Panel 2 

Abstract: Digital twins have emerged as a way to create virtual prototypes of physical artifacts, which may be used in a variety of contexts. Physical artifacts include airplanes, factories, or even static objects, such as bridges or dams. Digital twin helps monitor changes and assist in predicting planned or unplanned behaviors of physical objects. Digital Twins maintain living digital models of physical systems that enable data-driven analysis and application of AI to better manage selective aspects of the physical artifacts for improved performance and sustainability. In this panel, we discuss digital twins for data centers, computers, and other computing elements.

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Technological Challenges to enable the Emerging Metaverse — Panel 3 

Abstract: The metaverse revolution necessitates the need for extremely high computation in conjunction with increased reliability, availability and serviceability to support the new AI use cases and to enable a powerful and seamless user experience. Key use cases and requirements include real time high-resolution multimedia processing, end-to-end infrastructure, power-performance optimization, security-safety-privacy, lifecycle reliability for mission critical applications as well as teleporting and digital twins.

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Standards for the Metaverse — Panel 4 

Abstract: The success of the Metaverse requires the creation and widespread delivery of rich, new, immersive content to various types of devices, including new wearables. Building systems that support interoperability between content providers, communication networks, apps, and devices requires the specification of various new standards. This work spans across multiple Standards Development Organizations, such as Khronos, 3GPP, MPEG, IEEE, and coordinating organizations such as the Metaverse Standards Forum. Our panel of experts will describe the standards work of these organizations and the on-going challenges to building a fully open and interoperable Metaverse.

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