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    February 24, 2023
    Nike is allowing users to design and create products they’re able to take with them. For Nike, this is increasing exposure of its brand to users who are going to be more digitally native, the ones who are going to be spending more time—and presumably, money—in immersive worlds. For a new space, we certainly are seeing a mass of early adopters who are ready and eager to engage in the metaverse,…
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    March 15, 2023
    Imagine teaching someone to repair an airplane engine on Zoom? It would be borderline impossible. However, the metaverse allows replicas, or digital twins, to be built. In fact, scale doesn’t really exist, so why not take a class of mechanical engineers inside a giant jet engine?One of the jobs of the future I envision is Head of the Immersive Workplace, a person or team that will make sure that…
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    March 23, 2023
    5:04 - My advice to any company is, if you’ve already done something public, great for you. Take a step back to really reassess what your strategy is and if you still haven’t done something and you don’t feel compelled to do something public, there are ways to experiment in private as well.12:10 - I also think there is this moment of a bit of a talent war that’s slowly happening where there’s not…
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    March 27, 2023
    10:56 - Second big use case is education, and so I’m doing a lot of work with school principals at the moment, who are so important in this story, Joe, because it’s the young ones who are the predominant users of [the metaverse]. The parents have got no idea that it even exists.13:10 - We’ve already seen some of the hugely controversial problems that the tech giants have around social media and…
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    April 3, 2023
    6:06 - If you think about it, it has been estimated that it takes approximately 17 years for medical research to become fully integrated into clinical practice. Generative AI has the ability to shorten that to months, if not sooner, and that’s even at a population level.8:37 - In June 2020, neurosurgeons at Johns Hopkins performed the very first augmented reality surgeries, and in both of these…
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    April 5, 2023
    2:22 - When we start thinking about things like a digital driver’s license or a digital birth certificate and you can interact with that in a new and interesting and intuitive way and interact also with those digital equivalents of not only physical assets but digital equivalent of services, digital equivalent potentially even of rights, then we really start to talk about something interesting. 8…
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    July 21, 2016
    In the traditional EIM process, typically there are separate ETL, Replication and SDA processes and functions. Traditional processes introduce latency to the data in the data warehouse, as well as other challenges to getting data into one location seamlessly. Today's world is moving faster, and the need for clean, real-time data is imperative. Chances are, if you're reading this blog, you're no…
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    April 11, 2023
    The promise of the metaverse lies in improving work tasks, creating immersive experiences, enhancing corporate brands and finding new, robust revenue growth. As corporate decision makers, we focus on the problem we’re trying to solve and what steps are needed to be future-ready. As a leader, I ask my team to reimagine the possibilities and think through how this major transformative disruption…
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    April 11, 2023
    Two-thirds of all global business leaders say the metaverse will have a significant economic impact overall and be important to their company’s business success over the next decade. A stunning 82% of executives in North America say they are already using the metaverse for business, compared to just over a third in Europe and Asia-Pacific.Of all the emerging technologies that will enable the…
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    April 26, 2023
    "In my view, the metaverse itself is going to take a more practical form for organizations like Microsoft, primarily in business types of applications." "A lot of the genuine users, a lot of them are children. My nephew is eight years old, and a lot of children are building these very sophisticated applications, these very sophisticated games and levels on it. So I think if we’re going to see…
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