Want To Build An Airplane In The Metaverse, Here's Boeing's Reason!

Boeing will build planes within the metaverse. (photo: doc. unsplash)

JAKARTA - Boeing is reportedly planning to build a plane in the metaverse. Later, the company will collaborate with robots to work on the 3-D engineering design of the aircraft in the virtual space.

By using a HoloLens headset for US $ 3,500 or equivalent to Rp. 50 million designed by Microsoft. Boeing will spend two years to complete the project.

In its ambitious project, Boeing has a reason why it is eyeing the metaverse, as the company wants to integrate its broad aviation design, production and service operations under a single digital ecosystem.

Later, the system will create a three-dimensional virtual digital twin replica of the jet and a production system that can run simulations, united by a "digital thread" to bring together every piece of information about the aircraft from the start. For example, from airline requirements, millions of spare parts, thousands of pages of certification documents to extend deep into the supply chain.

Launching CGTN, Tuesday, December 21, on the other hand, Boeing considers Metaverse a way out of the two big problems it faced in the past. First, because of problems the 737 Max plane suffered two fatal accidents.

Then the second, Metaverse is a solution to prevent manufacturing quality problems and structural defects that have occurred in the 787 Dreamliner aircraft over the past year.

"It's about strengthening engineering. We're talking about changing the way we work across the company," said Boeing Chief Engineer Greg Hyslop.

Hyslop says that more than 70 percent of quality problems at Boeing can be attributed to design issues, and the company believes the new tool will be central to bringing new planes from scratch to market in just four or five years.

"You'll get speed, you'll get increased quality, better communication and better response when problems occur," Hyslop says.

Therefore, the project starting next year will be Boeing's toughest job, and of course the company has also invested 15 billion US dollars in the next 10 years in the future aircraft program, this is also Boeing's solution to continue to compete with Airbus. .