The Metaverse and Worker Shortages

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Enterprises across industries are experiencing skilled labor shortages. Many are also amid digital transformations in an effort to use data and technology throughout the enterprise. 

Now, these two movements may be merging. 

In a roundtable discussion hosted by RealWear last month, XR leaders discussed how immersive technologies and the metaverse can be used to cope with labor shortages. Applications expected to help with this particular issue include: 

  • Improved outcomes from AR and VR training

  • Productivity gains

  • Increasingly intelligent automation

  • Employee engagement, attraction, and retention

  • And more

The metaverse, and Industry 4.0 more broadly, is accelerating as enterprises work to do more with less across the board.