Meet Me in the Metaverse #TechVision Welcome to the “Metaverse Continuum” – Soon, they will be at to the metaverse as well, maintaining their own a spectrum of digitally enhanced worlds, the intersection of many internal virtual environments so employees can realities, and business models poised to new worlds, from building work from anywhere and collaborate in exciting revolutionize life and enterprise in the new ways. With opportunity proliferating across next decade. new physical and virtual all these new worlds, to best serve customers realities to providing and partners alike enterprises will need a This continuum is bringing the next major services in environments strategy to operate across the full spectrum. wave of digital change to enterprises, and leaders need to start making big leaps created by others. This way of life seems futuristic for now, forward in how they think about their business 1 The physical world is coming alive environment but it’s already on its way here. – today. Soon, they will be at the intersection by environment, each with its own capabilities of many new worlds, from building new and rules. Today we already have small-scale Seeing signals of profound change, the physical and virtual realities to providing intelligent physical worlds like smart factories, Accenture Technology Vision found it apt to services in environments created by others. intelligent cruise ships, and automated ports set its sights farther forward than ever before. Like in the scenario above, people will actively – tomorrow we will see these grow into entire The building blocks of the Metaverse Continuum live in and jump between these worlds on smart neighborhoods, cities, and countries, are taking shape today, but will coalesce over a daily basis. Our foreman starts his day where massive digital twins mirror physical the next decade to create an entirely new physically building a road in a digitally and reality. And the digital world is expanding too. enterprise landscape. The 20s will see ambitious robotically enhanced construction site, and Soon, new consumer spaces in the metaverse enterprises bringing shape to these new ends it in an office in the metaverse, a virtual will transport us to almost any type of world we physical and digital realities, as well as worlds environment created by the City Planning can imagine, letting us relax, entertain ourselves, co-populated by people and AI, industries Department, which lets him travel between or socialize over long distance. And major made possible by new computers, and more. geographies in seconds for government companies will shift part of their operations inspections. And this is just the beginning. Introduction // WebMe // Programmable World // The Unreal // Computing the Impossible 5