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Get a Forrester analyst’s impressions from Hannover Messe 2024, the smart manufacturing world’s big annual trade show.
In 2024, Forrester predicts that a healthy pragmatism will take hold in manufacturing. Learn more from our 2024 smart manufacturing predictions.
AI took center stage at Meta Connect 2023, while "the metaverse" remained chill. In its place, mixed reality is now the focus.
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.
Apple has unveiled its highly anticipated next generation spatial computing device – the Vision Pro. The device will retail at $3,499 and be available in early 2024. It is an augmented reality experiences with graduated immersive experiences that come very close to virtual reality at times. I had the chance to try the headset for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In the face of economic slowdown, Forrester predicts a winter season for metaverse and NFTs that will chill the market. There will be bright spots for these emerging technologies, however. Learn more.
Meta hosted its Meta Connect event virtually on October 11. Here are a few key announcements and my analysis from a consumer perspective.
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 […]
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 […]
Learn how the future viability of the metaverse depends on these four key emerging technologies.
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Join us at Forrester’s Technology & Innovation North America event on September 29 where we'll debate 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.