Infosys Metaverse Foundry to help Enterprises Evolve and Execute Strategies for Virtual Physical Connections.
– Infosys metaverse foundry is an integral part of Infosys Living Labs that’s driving the digital innovation agenda for enterprises racing to adapt to emerging priorities and market trends.
– Infosys will also take advantage of its metaverse foundry to extend its global corporate university, now on Infosys Wingspan platform, to the metaverse.
BENGALURU, India, Feb. 24, 2022 – Infosys (NSE: INFY) (BSE: INFY) (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, today announced the launch of Infosys metaverse foundry, which will make it easier and faster for businesses to explore the metaverse, including virtual and augmented environments, for their customers, workplaces, products, and operations. In a rich creator-partner economy, the Infosys metaverse foundry combines the strength of domain and design expertise, platforms and digital accelerators, and strong partnerships. Enterprises may use this confluence of capabilities as on-demand services, allowing them to scale up and down their explorations as needed. This provides businesses the opportunity to construct their own metaverse environment securely and efficiently on demand, deliver signature experiences in an existing metaverse, and use powerful AI-powered data analytics and simulations to realize their shifting objectives as the internet evolves.
“The physical and virtual worlds are already smoothly and ubiquitously interwoven. The metaverse will deepen this overlap and in very experiential ways that will create abundant space for business innovation. We want to help our clients to quickly double down on those opportunities in a find-fast, learn-faster environment before they can reorient their own capabilities, processes and culture in-house to respond to this rapidly evolving space.”
Ravi Kumar S, President, Infosys,
Infosys metaverse foundry helps enterprises navigate the metaverse by partnering with them through the Discover-Create-Scale cycle.
Discover value in the metaverse with 100+ ready-to-apply use cases and templates.
Through its use cases, business cases, and execution roadmaps, the Infosys metaverse foundry puts Infosys‘ depth in business domains and experience an immersive, interactive, and experiential design to work for businesses. To accelerate value exploration in the metaverse, they use technologies including AR/VR, Blockchain, NFT, IoT, Applied AI, cybersecurity, and 5G. For example, putting up an immersive retail experience where shoppers can explore a branded metaverse environment, buy things as NFTs, or connect to an online checkout counter to make purchases that are delivered in the physical world is a template that is popular with many large organizations.
Create and connect on the metaverse with Infosys platforms and accelerators.
Several metaverse technology investments, including platforms and accelerators to generate solutions and immersive experiences, are part of Infosys Living Labs’ multi-tiered digital infrastructure, which encompasses technology, processes, and people. They facilitate interaction with enterprise data APIs and 360/3D asset management systems, as well as the rapid production of engaging environments and digital copies. To power simulations, AI and engineering systems for creating digital twins of complicated physical items are also available. For example, using the Infosys XR platform, a leading pharmaceutical company constructed a digital twin of its vaccine lab, allowing quality engineers to access vital vaccine culture data and make predictions and judgments. Infosys metaverse foundry can also be leveraged as a makerspace to bridge the physical-digital worlds, in all Infosys digital centers. Infosys also leveraged the XR platform to launch its own mixed reality capability to host clients in highly immersive spaces to collaborate and co-create.
Scale ideas, expand possibilities with diverse creator-partners.
Enterprises may engage with any creator-partner in the Infosys Innovation Ecosystem to manage the pilot-to-production ramp up seamlessly or add more options at the prototype stage to de-risk and future-proof investments using Infosys metaverse foundry. An engineering consulting firm, for example, used the Infosys metaverse to create an immersive mixed reality workbench for inspecting potential engineering construction sites represented as rich 3D assets. With the help of Microsoft, a long-time Infosys partner, the capability was extended and scaled for worldwide use on Azure’s high-performance cloud.
Infosys will extend its worldwide corporate university, which is presently on the Infosys Wingspan platform, to the metaverse, thanks to the Infosys metaverse foundry. This will allow the company’s employees to switch between real and virtual learning venues with ease, while also benefiting from engaging and serendipitous encounters with fellow students and educators. To better understand difficult topics, the environment will contain hybrid libraries, heuristically evolving virtual classrooms, gamified learning, and digital twins.
Several businesses have benefited from Infosys metaverse foundry.
For the first time at any Grand Slam, in 2021 Infosys helped us reimagine the shopping experience at the Australian Open, by offering our fans an extended reality store. They made it possible for tennis fans to shop for all their favorite items including tees, beach towels, caps and racquets in this virtual world, and then carry these back to the real world. Seamless digital-physical connects have become more and more important in the evolution of our fan experience. At the same time, during the pandemic when travel was very restricted, Infosys helped us create the AO 2021 Virtual Hub, a digital platform targeted at our business partners where we took content and experiences from the event to the comfort of their homes and offices all around the world.”
Korey Allchin, Director of Partnership & International Business, Tennis Australia, said
“Our strategic foresight and transformation roadmap point to the rapid acceleration of digital ecosystems and we are looking to bring its value to all facets of our business – both as we know them today and to what we can create for the future. We are excited to partner with Infosys metaverse foundry to uncover the most significant investment we must make in the virtual world and plant seeds today that are most likely to bear fruit for our future.” Daniel Schumacher, Head of Global IT Applications and Digital Innovation, Komatsu, said.
“As our digital innovation partner, Infosys brought to tennis fans first-of-its-kind mixed reality experiences such as playing tennis on a virtual recreation of the Philippe-Chatrier court at the Infosys fan zone. During Roland-Garros, fans also got a chance to experience the thrill of their digital avatars stepping into a virtual world where they could interact with other fans in their digital forms, engage using virtual objects and even speak to each other in this space.”
Stéphane Morel, Deputy CEO, Marketing & Business Development, French Tennis Federation, said
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