Global XR Community

The Industrial Metaverse by Alexander Karim
Data visualization from clay tablets to the industrial metaverse by Jim Bennett

At this event, we have two fabulous speakers from Microsoft who will talk about the industrial metaverse. If you want to learn about the Industrial Metaverse, make sure not to miss this event. The broadcast will be live on our YouTube channel.

19:00 UTC+1
Welcome & latest news by Alexander Meijers & Saskia Groenewegen

19:15 UTC+1
The Industrial Metaverse by Alexander Karim
Businesses and technologists around the world are struggling to define the Metaverse and what their role will be in it. In this session, Alex Karim, Metaverse Lead for Microsoft UK will distinguish how Microsoft is thinking about the phenomenon for consumers, businesses, and industries. He will share our vision for the Industrial Metaverse, making the construct real and bringing it to life with customer stories.

20:00 UTC+1
Data visualization from clay tablets to the industrial metaverse by Jim Bennett
What do clay tablets from the Minoan civilization and the industrial metaverse have in common? Despite being from completely different ends of the technology spectrum, they essentially do the same job – visualizing data. From recording sales transactions 11,000 years ago to monitoring some of our most sophisticated technological marvels today, data visualization has been an important part of civilization. It has grown in sophistication as we have needed to visualize and manage growing amounts of data that change at an ever-increasing rate. This session takes you on a journey over that 11,000-year period, showing how we as humans have thought of data and needed to visualize it. From tables in clay to maps and charts, and onwards to structures so complex that the metaverse becomes the perfect tool for visualizing live data that updates sometimes many times a second. We’ll look at the tools and technologies that tame this data and provide the building blocks for the industrial metaverse, discuss the problems of visualizing large amounts of data, and then get hands-on with a demo showing how the industrial metaverse can visualize data from the international space station in near-real-time.

20:45 UTC+1
Wrap up by Alexander Meijers & Saskia Groenewegen

The Global XR Community is a free community around Extended Reality and organizes live events on YouTube and in the metaverse using AltspaceVR. We have monthly live sessions on virtual, augmented and mixed reality featuring new and seasoned speakers from around the world.

The Global XR Community is a free community around Extended Reality and organizes live events on YouTube and in the metaverse using AltspaceVR. We have monthly live sessions on virtual, augmented and mixed reality featuring new and seasoned speakers from around the world.