UH joins a growing list of educational institutions that have dabbled in the metaverse. In July, Wharton became the first Ivey League business school to launch a course dedicated to educating students about the metaverse opportunity.
Wharton’s announcement came just days after the University of Tokyo launched programs of study in the metaverse.
It should be noted that Wharton’s program deals with the metaverse, while the University of Tokyo teaches regular programs in the metaverse.
In the case of the University of Houston, neither strand applies. The institution is partnering with leading technology companies to create products for the industrial metaverse.
The industrial metaverse is a virtual program that leverages emerging technologies, such as AR and VR, to facilitate remote monitoring and evaluation of projects.
Microsoft is a major player in this space, having partnered with companies such as Kawasaki and Kraft Heinz to facilitate new product development and supply chain monitoring. The company has also launched a metaverse-based drone training program for the U.S. military.
Nvidia and Web3
UH, Nvidia and other companies have teamed up to “advance the creation of industrial metaverse applications as part of the Oilfield Digital Lab initiative,” UH wrote in a press release.
The companies want to build commercially variable use cases of the industrial metaverse.
In an industrial metaverse, people use extended reality goggles to operate industrial systems virtually from a remote workshop.
“This collaboration brings together end users, technology providers and industry experts to build commercially relevant use cases and acceleration tools and break down information silos. These resources ultimately enable an interconnected world with an industrial metaverse,” the companies wrote.
Adam Berg, Director of Learning Solutions at TechnipFMC, which has already worked with the UH College of Technology and the AI Innovation Consortium to pilot a bottom-up resource management pilot program, commented:
“The goal of the XR Network is to bring together the knowledge, tools and people needed to leverage XR technologies, achieve business goals and transform industrial environments. Our work with the university and the consortium has enabled us to move beyond concept to pilot and implementation.”
Nvidia has launched its own metaverse development kit dubbed Omniverse, which, among other technologies, offers NVIDIA DGX™ systems, the NVIDIA Jetson™ edge AI platform and NVIDIA OVX to accelerate the development process.
Commenting on this new collaboration, Marc Spieler, director of global energy at NVIDIA, said, “Our work with the AI Innovation Consortium and its ecosystem of partners and members is enabling the critical collaboration required between academic research, technology and industry to scale artificial intelligence to achieve measurable results in industries such as energy and manufacturing.”
“Using NVIDIA platforms such as Omniverse and Modulus to perform digital twins and physically accurate simulations will accelerate and streamline the return on digital investments by reducing downtime and security incidents,” added Spieler.
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