Fast take:
- James Temple has joined Accenture Tune as its new world metaverse lead.
- The skilled consultancy service agency is doubling down its metaverse technique following a latest strategic funding in Forma Imaginative and prescient.
- The corporate expects the metaverse to be valued at about $1 trillion by 2025.
Accenture Tune, previously Accenture Interactive has employed James Temple, the previous Senior VP and Chief Design Officer at Magic Leap to move its world metaverse push. Temple’s LinkedIn profile signifies that he joined the skilled companies and consultancy agency’s Metaverse Continuum Group final month.
At Magic Leap, Temple oversaw the Industrial Design, OS Design, Utility Design, Model Design, Human Elements and Person Expertise Analysis groups. He additionally led the 3D tech firm’s Skilled Companies functionality and created and led a brand new division targeted on Immersive Design, Product Design and Model Design when he was Chief Working Officer.
His appointment at Accenture Tune comes at a time when the corporate is making an attempt to speed up its world metaverse technique.
On January 26, Accenture introduced a strategic funding in Forma Imaginative and prescient, a 3D expertise startup that allows the creation of holographic pictures of individuals, objects and environments. This got here 10 months after Eire and New York-based firm launched “Accenture Metaverse Continuum” to onboard companies into the metaverse.
In a press release final month, David Deal with, Accenture’s managing direct, and world lead of its World Metaverse Continuum marketing campaign known as the metaverse “an evolving and increasing continuum of applied sciences that can more and more blur the boundary between the bodily and the digital [worlds].”
Temple’s expertise in each 3D applied sciences and purposes within the skilled companies trade aligns nicely with Accenture’s targets. The corporate’s CEO and chairman David Droga described Temple as knowledgeable who has been at “the forefront of some extremely groundbreaking tech developments.”
“The chance to make an influence on our shoppers’ enterprise and society are limitless right here at Accenture Tune, and I’m thrilled James is becoming a member of our household and grateful for Mark’s deep contributions to each MCBG and our sustainability follow,” added Droga.
Forma Imaginative and prescient’s expertise permits professionals to carry board conferences in digital areas sporting avatars which are much like their real-life selves. “We consider Forma Imaginative and prescient’s volumetric video expertise will allow extra immersive, partaking interactions and assist additional bridge actual and digital worlds by permitting folks, locations and issues to be extra authentically represented within the metaverse,” Deal with mentioned final week.
****
Keep updated:
Subscribe to our e-newsletter utilizing this hyperlink – we received’t spam!
