Istari CEO Will Roper on simulation, digital twins and the engineering metaverse
Istari CEO Will Roper, who was in town this week as the keynote speaker at the 8th Annual Florida Simulation Summit on May 10, intends to actualize an engineering metaverse — something that may benefit the Orlando business community in the future.
OBJ caught up with Roper at the event that was co-hosted by Orange County and the National Center for Simulation and focused on digital-twin technology to learn more.
“I'm sure everyone had a definition of a digital twin when they came in [today] because it's in popular media enough," said Roper, "But to what degree, there would be huge variance, and that's really what makes this field a little mysterious right now. It's easy to get through chapter one of the book, that you could have a digital surrogate to something physical. But when you go to chapter two, you have to ask how close of an approximation does it have to be? Which takes you to chapter three. It really depends on what purpose. And chapter four is how to manage the risk associated with that purpose.”
