Metaverse Can Accelerate Manufacturing Processes, Here's A New PROBLEM With It

Metaverse, it can be a solution as well as an obstacle. (photo: dock. Pixabay)

JAKARTA - For companies playing with different virtual realities such as the maker of the Boeing Co factory and online gaming platform Roblox Corp, which plunged into the world called the "metaverse" has given rise to equal promises and dangers.

Boeing is currently looking for digital technology to accelerate the production of new aircraft, said Susan Doniz, Boeing's chief information officer, at a Reuters Momentum conference in Austin, Tuesday, October 12.

He cited how Boeing cut the T-7 training jet development time by 80% to three years as an example of what it might do for commercial aircraft.

However, Doniz declined to offer a target date when Boeing would digitally design the next big plane. This is a target the company has discussed for years. Boeing has a commercial order backlog of 4,354 aircraft, which must be worked on immediately.

Some employees expressed reluctance for Boeing's tools to help them too. The company spreads HoloLens, a mixed reality headset from Microsoft Corp, so staff can send planes manually before they build digitally. These first-generation glasses are having problems with certain lighting conditions, and that requires adjustments for some things.

"There is a bit of a learning curve," Doniz said as quoted by Reuters.

Virtual reality is still newborn. Metaverse, not just a place where Boeing can one day build its plane, is a concept where people can have avatars on a vast virtual land. There's even a discussion about creating a "digital kembar" from the real world and the problem is, "said Morgan

"There are a lot of things in the real world that are really serious and really bad," mikha said at the conference. "I don't want to be rich. I don't want the equivalent of digital homeless."

Roblox's success is attracting nearly 60 million users every day to play and creating games on its site has not found a match. But on Tinder, Match Group Inc's dating app, which takes the same approach, is still waiting and seeing developments towards the metaverse.

"We're not doing anything explicitly in the metaverse today, but we want to be the place you're going when you want to meet someone new, be it in the real world or cyberspace," said Tinder Chief Operating Officer Faye Iosotalono, at the conference.

Part of the challenge may not be the perfect technology. In Renji Bijoy's view, the chief executive of the virtual office company Immersed who spoke at a Reuters conference last Wednesday called it like technology will continue to develop. "It's more like Windows 95," he said.