Industrial IMMERSIVE Brief | January 17, 2025

What Industrial AI Taught Us in 2024 (+Plans for 2025)

2024 was a wild ride for industrial AI—kind of like watching a robot try to moonwalk: impressive, a little awkward, but undeniably groundbreaking.

In our recent article, we look back at 2024 to unpack the year’s biggest industrial AI wins and lessons, and then we get our crystal ball to look ahead to 2025.

Here’s just a taste:

• Data quality is the ultimate MVP—because bad data is like giving your AI a map from 1995.
• Collaborative AI proved it’s better to work with humans, not against them.?
• When put to use for sustainability, AI is making real strides toward net-zero goals.

If 2024 blew your mind, wait until you see our 2025 predictions. Generative AI is coming for industrial design, and autonomy is the name of the game on factory floors and beyond.

Read our look-back and look-forward.

Here’s to a great 2025. We’ll be here covering all things industrial immersive.

Fireside Insights: How XR Is Transforming Industry

Since you subscribe to this newsletter, you know that XR (extended reality) isn’t just for gamers dodging virtual fireballs or astronauts training for spacewalks. It’s also transforming real-world enterprises in really big ways.?

In a fireside chat hosted by AREA, Mark Gr?b from UPS and Mark Sage from AREA shared how XR is shaking up industries. Tidbits they roasted on included:

• Cutting training times faster than you can ask, “Where’s the manual?”
• Using digital twins and AI for tasks big and small.
• Helping humans and machines speak the same language — finally. (Guess I can stop learning binary.)

Of course, it’s not all sunshine and holograms. There are challenges (data privacy, cost, and the occasional cultural resistance). But with a little courage — and an internal XR champion — enterprises can leap into the future.

Read the full recap and access the fireside chat recording

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WHAT ELSE?

• Schaeffler is leveraging generative AI to boost innovation and efficiency across its product lifecycle. By integrating a generative AI-powered assistant into Siemens’ Totally Integrated Automation Portal, engineers can automate controller coding, while maintenance teams quickly diagnose and fix errors.
• According to a new report by GlobalData, the global digital twins market is set to hit over $150 billion by 2030. In the early days of the technology, digital twins were used in capital-intensive operations to streamline processes, save money, and control emissions.
• Clark Yuan launched Stitch3D, a browser-based platform for viewing, sharing, and managing large 3D files stored as “point clouds,” collections of millions of discrete points with x, y, and z coordinating values that digitally represent a 3D scene. The platform secured a $1.8M Air Force grant for secure development and a $750K pre-seed round from friends and family.
• Released in collaboration with Siemens, the Sony SRH-S1 is set to launch sometime in February 2025, priced at $4,750, which the companies are squarely aiming at enterprise. Orders begin on January 23rd, 2025, purchasable directly through Siemens.
• Infinite Reality, a company building an engine for creating immersive web content underpinned with WebXR support, announced it has raised a whopping $3 billion to continue building the company’s “vision for the next generation of the internet.”?
• Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked on Jan 22 may unveil its highly anticipated XR device, “Project Moohan,” alongside new mobile AI solutions and updates on the Galaxy S series.
• VR headset developer?Xiaopai Technology, better known under the Pimax brand, has received a new injection of about $13.6 million in a recent funding round.

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