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The Metaverse: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet. Literally

EE Times Current · 4 Mar 2022 · 41m

What this episode covers

Brian Santo interviews Johnny Zhang, Chief Software Officer at Capgemini Engineering, about the current state and future challenges of the metaverse. Zhang explains that while hardware like VR headsets and tactile suits exists, the primary bottleneck is the massive data challenge of capturing, formatting, and processing multi-sensory information (haptics, smell, vision) at scale. The discussion highlights specific applications in industrial training, remote healthcare, and supply chain management, emphasizing that a unified data protocol is required to make the decentralized vision of the metaverse viable.

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Capgemini Engineering, Facebook, Meta
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