Industry 4.0 allows businesses to innovate freely and iterate infinitely across bridged metaverse environments. This, as the fourth industrial revolution spurs an unprecedented technological transformation that is eroding the lines that once delineated the physical and digital worlds. Powered by a confluence of emergent, next-generation capabilities, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), edge computing, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), advanced real-time connectivity, and other still-nascent, future-fit advances; industrial capabilities are being revolutionized across nearly every internal and external operational process touchpoint

German national railway operator Deutsche Bahn is building an industrial metaverse of its entire 20,500-mile rail network that it hopes will help it stop crashing a locomotive-size hole in the country’s reputation for punctuality. In this fourth article in the PYMNTS industrial metaverse series about the fledgling use of private enterprise virtual realities, we’ll look at how the troubled railway is building a massive digital twin of its entire network, including all 5,700 stations that will provide both a real-time view of operations and a boost to the artificial intelligence (AI) program it has in place to help it improve on-time arrivals

With skepticism that the metaverse will “change everything” growing as Meta’s struggles to produce a viable immersive virtual reality, there is a new “next big thing” waiting in the wings: The industrial metaverse. In this first article in a new PYMNTS series about this fledgling use of private metaverses, we’ll look at how companies are embracing “digital twins” of their factories and facilities and the various use cases of enterprise VR and corporate second lives