Physics-Based Simulation and the Future of the Metaverse

Some of the world's biggest companies are going all-in on the metaverse. One you may not know about is Ansys, a US public company that makes engineering simulation software and has been around since 1970. Dr. Prith Banerjee is its Chief Technology Officer, and I spoke to him last week about his vision for the metaverse -- and specifically, why he thinks the metaverse can't reach its full potential without "optimum physics-based modeling and simulation." Ansys, it turns out, already has a number of partnerships with companies building the metaverse -- including global telecoms companies, microchip and GPU manufacturers, data center and storage companies, and "all the cloud providers," according to Banerjee. He said that Ansys provides a mix of hardware and software expertise to these customers; everything from building hardware to designing a structural electromagnetics system.