Applying Standards to Information Centric Operations
The combination of digital twin data and extended reality ( XR and VR ) representation of that data effectively defines a key part of what ’ s become known as the Metaverse . The relationships between these various components of the metaverse can in principle be standardized , and many already are , as documented by the Metaverse Standards Forum 28 .
Some of the same tools , techniques , environments and potential standards apply across both the industrial metaverse and what we might call the retail or entertainment Metaverse . Others will not . You may not be able to pick up a magic sword in a virtual oil platform , but you may need to pick up a gas analyzer at some point ( Figure 6-1 ). There will be many points of commonality and convergence between these worlds and their standards .
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6-1 : A virtual gas analyzer in VR training session 29 .
The use of ontologies looks set to be the next evolution in digital twin and metaverse standards . As well as standards for identifying styles or type of ontology and use of top level ontologies , we can expect to see further standardization use cases in the ways in which the ontologically defined data is integrated , mapped and rendered into 3D representations in a range of target 3D rendering environments including virtual reality engines .
6.3 STANDARDS BENEFITS
We have seen how a truly information-centric way of working requires a radical inversion of the relationship between data and applications , and how the use of formal ontologies provides an interim step towards that , which can be and is being put into play right now . Businesses are already seeing benefits in cost and risk reduction from the use of formal ontologies , both in data
28 https :// metaverse-standards . org /
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Dräger Offshore Rig VR Experience . Available : https :// demodern . com / projects / offshore-rig-virtualreality-experience
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