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WHY INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS THE METAVERSE

Keith Bentley, Bentley Systems
November 11, 2022 10:07 AM
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For most people, using the internet is completely natural, as we work, play,
socialize and entertain ourselves with swipes, clicks, and voice commands. And
while the metaverse is relatively new, its benefits for infrastructure are so
compelling that it is quickly becoming natural to apply it to big construction
projects. That’s how it should be with the natural evolution of digital twin
technology.

THE BEAUTIFULLY BLURRED BOUNDARIES OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

For me, the metaverse is best explained as a two-way interaction between the
natural world and the digital world. Two-way means that you can enter the
digital world (you jump in) for a virtual experience — a bit like gaming — or
the digital world can come to you by using touch commands, voice, gestures, and
eye movements. That’s the metaverse (and meta means ‘more comprehensive’ if you
are curious).

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It’s like a virtual time machine. The relevance of the metaverse in
infrastructure is that digital twins are founded on rich engineering data and
multiple information sources from the natural world, like ground models and
environmental data, to create a realistic, digital representation of a complex
infrastructure project, imagined or already built. Digital twins can track and
visualize real-world conditions through Internet of Things (IoT) connected
devices like drones and sensors that capture detailed, real-time data allowing
you to explore past, present, or even future stages of a project.

Meetings aren’t boring. Imagine all the people who need to make crucial
decisions on a project, sitting around with their wireless VR or mixed reality
headsets, being teleported inside of a virtual digital twin project. Making
decisions and looking at “what ifs” in real time. Welcome to the metaverse — you
can do this today. This is where infrastructure digital twins and the metaverse
collide.

CREATING CALM CONTROL ON THE RAGING WHITE WATER OF BIG CONSTRUCTION

The benefits of the metaverse are evident when considering that traditional
construction planning typically involved 3D computer models (often several) in
representing different aspects of the build — that is, structural engineering,
ground conditions, slope stability, traffic flow, atmospheric factors, along
with separate project schedules.

Meeting the schedule with thousands of moving parts, materials management,
sequencing, workforce coordination and the knock-on effect of supply chain
disruptions meant that even a vastly experienced project manager dealt with a
large degree of uncertainty. With this background of project white-water, a lot
of hope went into the delivery of the project plan.

The 4D element of time is important here. Combining 3D models with the project
schedule enables 4D construction planning. The metaverse lets you jump forward
to see the consequences of your decisions on the project’s long-term
sustainability — from planning, through construction, to operations and
maintenance.

EXPERIENCING FULL IMMERSION IN THE METAVERSE

A case study to validate the metaverse benefits is the ITER project, based in
France, which involves some 35 countries collaborating to prove the feasibility
of fusion as a utility-scale, carbon-free source of energy. The project team
leveraging digital twins and their clients are now virtually teleporting into
this large-scale nuclear fusion electricity generation facility under
construction.

The virtual experience is enabled by SYNCHRO 4D and iTwin, along with NVIDIA
Omniverse, Unreal Engine for Oculus Quest 2 and Azure Remote Rendering for
Microsoft HoloLens 2. This combination allows engineering-grade, micron-accurate
digital content to be visualized on multiple devices like web browsers,
workstations, tablets, and virtual reality and augmented reality headsets from
anywhere in the world.

DIGITAL TWINS AND THE METAVERSE: COMPARING THE VIRTUAL WORLD TO THE REAL WORLD

Those who have had the experience of digital immersion in the ITER project, and
who have had the opportunity to get their boots on the ground and walk through
the actual facility are struck by how familiar it is. Why? Because they have
already experienced it virtually. The human experience, apart from awe at being
in a cathedral-sized machine hall, is an extraordinary sense of calm confidence
as the construction progress is where they knew it would be. Site visitors can
observe large irregularly shaped gaps where pre-assembled components are
scheduled to be connected later. With digital rehearsals, they know the
components will fit, even with extremely low tolerances, because they have been
fitted numerous times before in the virtual world.

It is a perfectly natural thing to walk, look, explore, and converse on any big
construction project, as it is perfectly natural to do this in the digital
world. You can see and experience it before you build it. The boundaries are
beautifully blurred.

AND THE METAVERSE EVOLUTION CONTINUES

With the metaverse becoming part of our human experience, I see it as inevitable
that it will be part of our everyday activities. We are already interacting with
data in totally new ways with gestures and voice, rather than picks-and-clicks.
Imagine this dimension of being an avatar inside a digital twin, completely
immersed and interacting with the asset, not just an onlooker, viewing it from a
distance. You are part of the metaverse.

In infrastructure, digital twins and the metaverse offer the full business
benefits of 4D planning, virtual teleporting, and collaboration to solve
challenging problems in real time, all with a view to more sustainable outcomes.

It is an extraordinary evolution of open digital twin technology that feels as
natural as going for a walk.

Keith Bentley is CTO of Bentley Systems.

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