Infosys has announced the launch of the Infosys Metaverse Foundry, providing businesses new consulting services that offer a choice of virtual and physical services to ideate, protoype and build offerings that help them to transition into the 3D world.
Enterprises can harness this confluence of capabilities as services on-tap, with the flexibility to ramp up and down their explorations at will. This gives them on-demand ability to securely and efficiently create their own metaverse environment, deliver signature experiences in an existing metaverse, and bring advanced AI-powered data analytics and simulations to realize their evolving aspirations as the internet evolves.
According to the company, users will be able to access services that span three distinct phases of the Metaverse transition:
Envision: Including Metaverse strategy advisory services, design thinking workshops and use case development.
Create: Including services that help to create, innovate, and accelerate metaverse such as: Cross-functional Metaverse Creation Service, Infosys Metaverse Living Labs, Infosys XR Platform and Infosys NFT Platform.
Execute: Including services that help to adopt and scale Metaverse such as: deploy and scale experiments, change management, Infosys Cybersecurity and Infosys Blockchain Platform.
This Metaverse foundry will give clients on-demand ability to securely and efficiently create their own metaverse environment, deliver signature experiences in an existing metaverse, and bring advanced artificial intelligence (AI)-powered data analytics and simulations to realize their evolving aspirations as the internet evolves.
Users will be granted access to more than 100 metaverse templates, which act as digital accelerators for all phases. The template use cases span diverse sectors and harness technologies like AR, VR, Blockchain, NFTs, IoT, AI, cybersecurity and 5G that are integral to the 3D Metaverse experience. Through the template model, users can leverage 3D accelerators such as virtual retail stores, healthcare digital twins, virtual equipment maintenance and customer engagement.
Many global tech players like Facebook (now Meta), Microsoft are increasing their focus on metaverse, which has now become a fad of sorts. And Infosys is the first big IT player from India to offer metaverse services to the slew of companies that want to get into the field.
Ravi Kumar S, President, Infosys, said, “We want to help our clients to quickly double down on those opportunities.” Infosys metaverse foundry will help companies navigate the metaverse by partnering with them through the ‘Discover-Create-Scale cycle’.