Meet Me in the Metaverse #TechVision Why Metaverse Continuum? You’ve probably heard the word “metaverse” over the last year, evoking a Amazon Sidewalk was activated, instantly science fiction future of a persistent and shared virtual reality space. The truth creating smart neighborhoods, and extending is, right now a lot of early metaverses are being built with many different initial the reach of existing smart devices far beyond 3 focuses and ideas for how to get it right. Some are for enterprises, some for 98% their original range. And Vail Ski Resort in consumers. Each has different platforms, partners, and technologies at its core. Colorado has built a digital twin of its resort, of executives believe an intelligent virtual world mirroring their Eventually this spectrum of ideas will coalesce into a more broadly unified continuous advances in physical mountain, including details like real- experience, but the range of business areas that it will impact will only grow. technology are becoming time snowfall, years of weather data, and critical Just as the internet evolved beyond simple websites to underpin the majority more reliable than economic, mountain infrastructure. They’re also automating of today’s businesses, it would be wrong to think the experience of the political, or social trends in the physical mountain, investing in remote metaverse will be constrained to digital space. informing their organization’s monitoring and automatic snow guns which long-term strategy. can activate based on the weather. With this That is why we’ve introduced the “Metaverse Continuum.” Accenture tech-focused strategy that crosses the digital looks at the metaverse as an evolving and expanding continuum on and physical worlds, Vail is able to increase the multiple dimensions: predictability of ski conditions and expects these efforts to eventually let them extend • Comprises multiple technologies including extended reality, blockchain, their typical season by 25%.4 artificial intelligence, digital twins, and smart objects – including cars and factories, and edge computing. As developments like these challenge our • Encompasses the “virt-real” – the range of experiences, from purely basic assumptions about technology and virtual to a blend of virtual and physical. For some, it’s already starting. A Chinese news business, we are entering a new landscape agency, Xinhua, has unveiled a virtual newsroom where there are not yet rules or expectations – • Describes the spectrum of emerging consumer experiences and with an AI news anchor who can deliver breaking creating a rich opportunity to build and the business applications and models across the enterprise that will 2 shape the worlds of tomorrow. news to audiences 24 hours a day. be reimagined and transformed. Introduction // WebMe // Programmable World // The Unreal // Computing the Impossible 7