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Hannover Messe 2024: We’re All In This Together
It wasn't all AI, but it was mostly AI. Get our top takeaways and impressions from Hannover Messe 2024, the smart manufacturing world’s annual trade show.
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Predictions 2024: Smart Manufacturing Walks Back Prior Plans
In 2024, Forrester predicts that a healthy pragmatism will take hold in manufacturing. Learn more from our 2024 smart manufacturing predictions.
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AI Pushes The Metaverse Into The Horizon At Meta Connect 2023
AI took center stage at Meta Connect 2023, while "the metaverse" remained chill. In its place, mixed reality is now the focus.
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The Industrial Metaverse Is A Good Idea That Needs A Better Name
The industrial metaverse doesn’t exist yet, but many of its building blocks do — and already connect physical and digital experiences to deliver value in asset-intensive industries like manufacturing.
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Apple’s Vision Pro Is A New Spatial Computing Device — Not A Headset
Apple has unveiled its highly anticipated next-generation spatial computing device, Apple Vision Pro. The device will retail at $3,499 and be available in early 2024. It is an augmented reality (AR) experience, with graduated immersive experiences that come very close to virtual reality (VR) at times. I had the chance to try the headset for […]
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XR Glasses (i.e., Headsets) For Consumers — Just Another Screen? Or More?
The conversation around extended reality (XR) headsets comes and goes frequently — and is peaking again now. The story arc of these conversations has been similar for at least a decade (though we seem to have collective amnesia). First, they’re positioned as the next “must-have” consumer electronics device (think Neil Stephenson’s 1992 “Snow Crash” vision […]
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Blockchain: It’s More Than Just Crypto
How closely is the fate of blockchain tied to cryptocurrency? Do NFTs have business value? In this episode, Vice President and Principal Analyst Martha Bennett dispels some blockchain myths and shares some use cases that may not be on your radar.
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An Inside Look At Forrester’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies Report
Which emerging technologies should be on your radar in the year ahead? VP, Emerging Tech Portfolio Brian Hopkins and VP, Principal Analyst Julie Ask walk through Forrester’s list of the top 10 emerging technologies to watch.
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The Metaverse Doesn’t Exist Yet — So How Do You Develop For It?
Experienced developers know the situation too well: An executive comes by with an idea, and it’s up to us to act on it. If a C-level has recently dropped by your office to say, “We ought to be looking into this metaverse thing,” you’re in for an adventure. Bringing a company up to speed when […]
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Meta Is Losing Itself In The Metaverse
Toward the end of Meta’s Q3 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg made an impassioned appeal to investors: “[It] would be a mistake for us to not focus on any of these areas [of the metaverse], which I think are going to be fundamentally important to the future […] People are going to look back on decades […]
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Meta Connect 2022: My Take On Its Consumer-Focused VR, Avatar, And Metaverse Announcements
Meta hosted its Meta Connect event virtually on October 11. Here are a few key announcements and my analysis from a consumer perspective.
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Meet Two Schrödinger’s Cats, Web3 And The Metaverse, At Technology & Innovation APAC In Sydney
This Technology & Innovation APAC, come listen to Sam Higgins and I talk about two Schrödinger’s cats in today’s tech ecosystem. First up: Web3. Some believe that Web3 will change the World Wide Web as we know it by giving users more control over their data and identities, ushering in better incentive structures for creators […]
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Is USD The HTML Of The Metaverse?
I was able to attend the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) and focused on the extended reality (XR) track. If nothing else, it was clear that the attendees were enthusiastic about the use of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) format as an interchange format for the metaverse and XR in general. There’s A Huge Need […]
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Show Me The Metaverse
Learn how the future viability of the metaverse depends on these four key emerging technologies.
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Show Me That Emerging Technology Magic
Get three key takeaways about leveraging emerging technology in this Technology & Innovation event preview.
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Despite The Hype, Most Consumers Still Don’t Know About The Metaverse
Fewer than one-quarter of US survey respondents are familiar with the metaverse — and even early tech adopters aren't sure what exactly it is. Explore these and other findings from our recent survey.
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Metaverse-Like Experiences: Is Novelty Enough? A Look At ESPN’s Fifty/50 World
ESPN Edge built the interactive, 3D environment Fifty/50 World to celebrate 50 years of Title IX. Learn what a Gen X consumer — and a sophisticated 13-year-old user of online 3D immersive gaming and entertainment platforms — thought of the experience.
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Future Fit Manufacturers Evolve Their Platform Strategies To Scale
The launch announcements for Siemens Xcelerator and Hexagon Nexus show how platforms are evolving in the manufacturing sector.
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