From The Editor: Creating a Metalverse.

In the book, he introduces the reader to the metaverse, a phrase he coined as a successor to the Internet and constitutes his early 1990s vision of how a virtual reality-based Internet might evolve in the near future. Graph From digital data collection, distributed information sharing, adaptive machine controls, and artificial intelligence (AI)-based decision-making, are we now on the cusp of creating our own "Metalverse"? As with the internet evolving in the industrial sector, the recently held AFS 2022 Foundry Industry 4.0 Conference broached many of the topics that are key facets of metaverse and how our industry might integrate them into a more digital-centric manufacturing environment. [Extracted from the article]