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Nvidia this month announced a series of enhancements to its Omniverse creation and simulation tool. Collectively, they more tightly connect metaverse instances with the real-world devices they emulate, assuring that any related digital twins are synchronized in real-time with their real-world counterparts, substantially increasing realism.
This will have several near-term benefits for remotely administering any solution covered by a metaverse simulation; it will also provide a shorter path to full automation and set a framework that should make that final step faster and more reliable.