June 20, 2022
Kannan Subbiah
vCISO at BUSoftTech | Advisor at itTrident | Infra Consultant at MF Utilities | Expertise in Cyber Risk
"It's too early to understand whether the metaverse is going to be a big thing or whether it is just another buzzword and marketing exercise," he says. "But I suspect it's going to have enough momentum behind it that it will become a thing that we will want to be interested in." That seems to be the general consensus among other industry observers, too. While the cash invested by Big Tech means the metaverse is likely to become successful eventually, no one should be expecting to collaborate with colleagues and friends in a rich virtual space tomorrow. Distinguished Gartner analyst Mark Raskino suggests that the challenge of filling the human field of view with a realistic and immersive image space is an incredibly hard problem to solve. "I do believe that one day business will commonly be conducted in a fully immersive 3D visual metaverse. But it will not happen in the 2020s. It probably won't happen in the 2030s." In fact, such is the slow pace of development that some businesses believe there's no big requirement to rush headfirst into metaverse pilots.
Continuous deployment, as a principle, can be applied to many applications and even in the most regulated industries. Tim Lucas, co-founder and co-CEO of Buildkite, says, “Continuous deployment can be adopted per project, and the best orgs set goals for moving as many projects as possible to this model. Even in finance and regulated industries, the majority of projects can adopt this model. We even see self-driving car companies doing continuous deployment.” While devops teams can implement continuous deployment in many projects, the question is, where does it offer a strong business case and significant technical advantages? Projects deploying features and fixes frequently, and where a modernized architecture simplifies the automations, are the more promising to transition to continuous deployment. Lucas shares some of the prerequisites that should be part of the software development process before moving to a continuous deployment model. He says, “Continuous deployment is true agility, the fastest way from code change to production. It requires always keeping the main branch in a shippable state, automating tests, and high-quality tooling you can trust and have confidence in.”
On redefining growth, Ryan Shanks, head of sustainability for Europe at Accenture, noted that while innovation in many areas is done one company at a time and then used for competitive advantage, the opposite is true for climate change-related innovation. “What I’m seeing in our portfolio work at the moment, if it relates to the circular economy or the energy transition, etc, is none of our individual clients can actually do anything on their own,” he said. “They are hugely reliant on an ecosystem – policy folks, regulators, entrepreneurs, not-for-profits – of people coming together.” Shanks said that to achieve innovation at scale, the first thing organisations should do is adopt an inter-disciplinary approach from the ideation stage. “I mean the technologists, the consumer folks, the business model people and finally, increasingly for us, social scientists and ethicists, working side by side,” he said. “Now on a day-to-day basis, they’ll tell me that working together slows each of them down – the creatives want to work on their own, and the tech want to work on their own – but I’ll say it catches up in the long run because it speeds things up to get to scale.”
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Creator-owned content is the first iteration of the Web3 creator economy. On current social platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, the company behind the platform owns the content that creators produce. Web3 will enable creators to not only own their content on existing social platforms, but also own a part of the platform they produce and distribute content on. Content can begin to be creator-owned and platform-agnostic through the use of NFTs, which act as proof of ownership and validate the content’s authenticity. ... Creators will also play a key role in the metaverse. In addition to participating in it, creators can develop parts of the metaverse with either no-code tools or technical background. This has already started to take shape in existing gaming metaverses, most notably Roblox. On Roblox, anyone can create video games and monetize them directly on the platform. In 2020 alone, creators earned $329 million through Roblox alone. “Metaverse creators” will likely grow to become an active and profitable vertical of the creator economy in the years to come.
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