The U.S. aviation giant is looking to digital technology to accelerate production of new aircraft, said Susan Doniz, Boeing's chief information officer, at the Reuters Momentum conference in Austin on Tuesday.
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The metaverse, not just a place where Boeing may one day build its planes, is a concept where people can have an avatar in vast virtual lands.
There even is discussion about creating "digital twins" of the real world -- and its problems, said Morgan McGuire, Roblox's chief scientist.
"There's a lot of things in the real world that are really serious and are really bad," McGuire said at the conference.