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Welcome to the New Reality: Where the Metaverse Meets Business

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Welcome to the New Reality: Where the Metaverse Meets Business

HxGN LIVE Global 2022 Keynote

Hexagon,

5 min read
4 take-aways
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Welcome to the new reality.

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Jazz-loving, double-bass-playing Burkhard Boeckem is the chief technology officer of Hexagon AB, a Swedish information technology company. In this keynote speech at 2022’s HxGN LIVE Global event, Boeckem explores how the latest innovations in geospatial reality capture can do everything from helping filmmakers scout for locations and plan movie scenes, to improving the sustainability of cities, to creating a richly detailed digital mirror of the world’s most inaccessible places.

Summary

Without even knowing it, humanity has entered a new reality, where each person has already left a digital footprint.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the metaverse is just a new, video game–style cyberspace for entertainment. The metaverse isn’t even wholly separate from your current reality. You may not have gone so far as to create a digital avatar, but your digital fingerprints are already scattered all over the metaverse.

No one is prescient enough to know how the metaverse will play out in the future, but there’s no doubt that it will change the way people work and the way they live. Before artificial intelligence, the metaverse couldn’t have come into being, but with AI, the metaverse will be made up of “parallel digital worlds of data,” with “hyper-realistic visualization of spaces and objects or insights that were previously inconceivable.”

Technology’s task is to overcome the limitations imposed by time, distance and sight. 

As Peter Drucker said, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” More data is available now than at any other...

About the Author

Burkhard Boeckem has worked in the geospatial industry for 20 years. He is currently the CTO of Hexagon AB, where he directs innovation in reality-capture technologies.

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