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Orlando’s Breakthrough Digital Twin Project Named 2024 Top Tech

... The OEP [ Orlando Economic Partnership ] digital twin project marks the largest of its kind, simulating 800 square miles of the famed region as a 3D render that OEP staff or visitors can interact with via a large-scale screen.

The OEP displays the digital twin at its new downtown Orlando, Florida headquarters, ready for potential regional partners to view the area and related core data points, which help visitors understand a place of business growth, all from one room. ...

For example, in April, Dave Rhodes, the GM and senior VP of Digital Twins at Unity, explained how his firm would be able to integrate related XR technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), simulation, and analytics to improve digital twin workflows at OEP and to match the growing number of use cases the team is receiving.

Unity’s digital technology unlocks data from proprietary formats, making merging anything into one virtual experience more effortless and allowing stakeholders to collaborate, simulate, and make better decisions. ...

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