9 BENEFITS OF USING DIGITAL TWINS IN METAVERSE

The Use of Digital Twins (DTs) in the metaverse is becoming more prevalent nowadays. Digital twins provide the most realistic simulation of the physical objects around you. Apart from these, there are tons of benefits of using digital twins in metaverse.

Immutability, automation, security, peer-peer to communication are some of the benefits of using digital twins in metaverse. Besides these decentralization, legitimacy, accountability, tracking, etc are added benefits of using digital twins in metaverse.

This post will briefly explain all the 9 benefits of using digital twins in metaverse right starting from accountability. A brief overview of issues related to using digital twins in metaverse will be discussed at the end. If you want to know more about digital twins, you can refer to the this post.

9 BENEFITS OF USING DIGITAL TWINS IN METAVERSE

Blockchain based Non-Fungible Token (NFT) is similar to Digital Twin in metaverse.There are a lot of benefits of using digital twin in metaverse. They are listed below.

  • Automation
  • Digital Twin’s Identity And Legitimacy
  • Security And Reliability
  • Immutability And Transparency For Digital Twins Transaction
  • High Accuracy Tracking For Digital Twins Globally
  • Safeguarding Product Lifecycle
  • Peer-To-Peer Communications
  • Access Privileges And Trusted Digital Twin Data Coordination
  • Enforcing Transparency And Accountability For Digital Twin Data
  • Decentralized Infrastructure
9 BENEFITS OF USING DIGITAL TWINS IN METAVERSE

AUTOMATION

Automation here refers to running of processes or a system without the need of human intervention. Since, most of the metaverse particular open metaverse runs on blockchain technology. Automation is inbuilt in these types of metaverse.

You do not need authority or privileged users to run any process in this kind of metaverse. So, no one can interfere in the results of any components of metaverse including digital twins in metaverse.

Due to the above reasons, the digital twins resulting in metaverse are authentic and reliable. This is one of the benefits of using digital twins in metaverse.

DIGITAL TWIN’S IDENTITY AND LEGITIMACY

Since most of the blockchain is based on blockchain technology and all blockchain are based on decentralized architecture. So, all components of the metaverse like digital twin have their own identity.

All the digital twins in metaverse are considered legal since they all are accepted under the consensus protocol of blockchain. The consensus protocol may be Proof of Work(PoW), Proof of Stake (PoS), Proof of Space (PoSpace), etc. Legitimacy and identity of digital twin is one of benefits of using digital twins in metaverse

SECURITY AND RELIABILITY

As already discussed in a previous post, there are 7 security challenges of using digital twins in metaverse. Most of these security challenges are solved by blockchain based metaverse or open metaverse. 

Digital twins of open metaverse or block chain based metaverse are more secure and reliable than the closed metaverse or centralized metaverse. As in centralized metaverse, the data or results related to digital twins may be manipulated by the central authority.

IMMUTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY FOR DIGITAL TWINS TRANSACTION

Immutability means ability to remain unaltered throughout its lifetime. Immutability is an intrinsic characteristic of any blockchain. Since blockchain is a distributed ledger. This ledger becomes permanent, unaltered and indelible  due to immutability.

The transition associated with digital twins in the metaverse also becomes immutabile and transparent. This makes the digital twins to be quick, efficient and cost-effective. Moreover, digital twins in metaverse brings more trust and integrity to the metaverse as a whole.

HIGH ACCURACY TRACKING FOR DIGITAL TWINS GLOBALLY

Since every transaction in blockchain is transparent, you can track each and every traction associated with digital twins in metaverse.  Other blockchain properties like linking blocks, transparency and immutability also adds to high accuracy of tracking for digital twins globally.

So, high accuracy for tracking digital twin is one of the benefits of using digital twins in metaverse.

SAFEGUARDING PRODUCT LIFECYCLE

As you have seen in 3 layer architecture showing the relationship between digital twin and metaverse the following layers are present.

  • Physical real world layer
  • User Interface or link layer
  • Metaverse Layer

There is an interlink between the digital twin and its physical counterpart throughout its life cycle. Each metaverse based digital twin and its physical counterparts are easily controllable in the metaverse. 

This way you can safeguard the product life cycle of digital twins and physical objects. It is one of benefits of using digital twins in metaverse

PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATIONS

There is a lot of communication and interaction between different components in the metaverse including digital twins. There are 3 types of interaction of digital twin in metaverse

  • Digital Twin to Digital Twin
  • User to Digital Twin 
  • Digital Twin to Other Virtual Assets

The communication using digital twins requires no intermediary in the metaverse. This makes benefits of using digital twins in metaverse

The following figure below illustrates the interaction of digital twins with other entities in the metaverse.

BENEFITS OF USING USING DIGITAL TWIN IN METAVERSE
Peer-to-peer communications

ACCESS PRIVILEGES AND TRUSTED DIGITAL TWIN DATA COORDINATION

As you have already seen, there is a lot of interaction with each and every component of the metaverse with the digital twin. A lot of data is exchanged during this interaction.

Blockchain being a metaverse  core infrastructure requirement provides accessibility to digital twins data. It makes the data easy to manage and coordinate the data.

ENFORCING TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR DIGITAL TWIN DATA

Data related to digital twins in the metaverse requires transparency and accountability. This feature is provided by metaverse built on decentralized infrastructure.

Trust is an important feature associated with every metaverse. Accountability is built in blockchain. Blockchain creates a trusted ID, so that everyone can be ascertained of who is sending information or requesting information.

This feature elevated the regulatory issues for digital twins’ legitimacy and usage. Enforcing transparency and accountability is one of the benefits of using digital twins in metaverse

DECENTRALIZED INFRASTRUCTURE

Decentralization is one of the prominent features of the open metaverse based on blockchain. Decentralization enables all the users of the metaverse to be the owner of the metaverse. It transfers control and decision making from a centralized authority to a distributed network or users.

Using digital twins in the metaverse where decentralization is its core feature, make the digital twin a good and reliable choice.

ISSUES RELATED TO USING DIGITAL TWINS IN METAVERSE

Along with many benefits of using digital twins in metaverse, there are issues related to digital twins in metaverse as of now. Some of them are highlighted below.

Interoperability of digital twins from one metaverse to another is a big issue. This needs to be solved in the days to come. Sustainability of digital twin metaverse in terms of adaptability, resilience, reconfigurability and efficiency is important.  

Latency in real time communication using digital twins in metaverse is an issue of now. But as the technology advances it is going to be resolved soon. Issues relate to data of digital twins like computation, volume, generation rate, veracity, management, etc is also there.

Other issues of digital twins in metaverse like ethical, legal, societal and adoption has coped up. All these issues will be discussed in details in some other post in this blog metaversetroop.com

ENDNOTE

In this post, you have come to know the benefits of using digital twins in metaverse. Most of the benefits like immutability, transparency, automation, decentralization, etc are inherited from blockchain. 

All the benefits of using digital twins in metaverse are important and it makes digital twins to be more secure, reliable and trustworthy. A brief overview of issues related to using digital twins in metaverse was also discussed. Please share the post related to metaverse and keep visiting this blog.

Ziaul has been in data related field for the past eight years working as a Management Information System Manager (MIS Manager), analyzing and decoding data to provide useful information.

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