Industrial Metaverse & Digital Twin

Metthier Company Limited, or Metthier, signed an academic memorandum of understanding, or MOU, with the Faculty of Engineering at Mahidol University, Salaya, to develop Thailand's first Smart Integrated Facility Management model SMART Campus. Khayon Tantichatwat, Chief Executive Officer of Metthier, said the collaboration will combine Smart Integrated Facility Management, a Command Center, and Digital Twin to comprehensively upgrade the management of educational spaces and buildings, while also serving as a learning center for the education, public, and private sectors. Associate Professor Dr. Thanaphat Wanichanon, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Mahidol University, said the SMART Campus will be Thailand's first smart campus model, using artificial intelligence, automated system management platforms, and the Internet of Things, or IoT, to improve efficiency in campus management. The collaboration covers technology development and research in five key dimensions: Smart Health, Smart City, Smart Logistics, Smart Security, and Smart Environment, aiming to drive the campus toward net zero carbon emissions under ESG standards and carbon neutrality.

Jacobs Solutions has been selected by NVIDIA to deploy its Data Center Digital Twin platform at a large U.S. research and development facility, sending the company's shares up 3.3% in the afternoon session. The work is a three-year SaaS agreement built on NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, under which Jacobs will use the digital twin to optimize energy demand, monitor operations, and balance power loads across the AI facility. The stock closed the day at $139.76, up 3.3% from the previous close. Jacobs Solutions is up 3.3% since the beginning of the year, but at $139.77 per share it is still trading 15% below its 52-week high of $164.44 from October 2025.

Jacobs has been selected by Nvidia to deploy its Data Center Digital Twin platform at a large-scale AI research and development facility in the U.S. Under a three-year software-as-a-service agreement, Jacobs will provide a digital twin environment designed to improve operational planning and facility performance at one of Nvidia's advanced AI R&D facilities. Built on Nvidia Omniverse libraries, the platform creates a real-time environment that allows operators to simulate scenarios and monitor and optimize facility performance, combining engineering models, operational technology and live facility data into a single platform. J shares rose 1.5% premarket on Wednesday.

The global 3D mapping and modeling market is projected to reach $29.2 billion by 2031, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 10.6% from an estimated $17.63 billion in 2026, according to a new report from ResearchAndMarkets.com. Digital twin software is expected to be the fastest-growing segment, driven by infrastructure digitalization and integration with BIM, GIS, LiDAR, and reality capture. Cloud deployment is anticipated to lead the market in 2026 as organizations adopt scalable, connected geospatial workflows. North America is forecast to hold the largest market share, while Asia Pacific is projected to be the fastest-growing region due to rapid urbanization and infrastructure investment. Key drivers include expanding digital twin deployments, growing UAV-based reality capture, and AI-powered automated feature extraction.

Autodesk has joined the Alliance for OpenUSD, which has started the ISO certification process for the OpenUSD Core Specification 1.1, aiming to drive global 3D data interoperability and agentic AI workflows. The move ties Autodesk's software ecosystem more closely to OpenUSD as a common 3D data layer across gaming, XR, and enterprise use cases. Autodesk's stock closed at $205.26, down 28.4% year to date and 31.8% over the past year, with a five-year return down 36.0%. The ISO process could influence how quickly regulated industries adopt 3D and AI pipelines on this standard, potentially affecting Autodesk's integration into cross-platform workflows alongside competitors like Unity and NVIDIA.

The Alliance for OpenUSD has added ByteDance, Huawei, Physicl, and Unity as General Members, expanding its reach into gaming, consumer XR platforms, and large-scale enterprise digital transformation. The organization has also begun the ISO certification process for Core Specification 1.1, the first step toward international standardization, and launched a GitHub repository to give developers direct input into the specification's evolution. OpenUSD is emerging as the 3D data layer for agentic AI workflows, with early implementations from Cesium, PTC, and NVIDIA demonstrating how AI agents can understand, navigate, and modify 3D environments built on the Core Specification. AOUSD and member companies including Pixar, NVIDIA, Autodesk, and Epic Games will present sessions at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles from July 19 to 23.

NVIDIA announced that its Agent Toolkit now includes Omniverse libraries, a collection of software components that give AI agents tools to add physical AI capabilities to existing applications and prepare 3D content for simulation. The new libraries—ovrtx for RTX sensor simulation, ovphysx for GPU-accelerated physics, and CAD-to-SimReady skills for converting CAD data into simulation-ready assets—are openly available on GitHub. Software makers including SideFX and PTC are integrating these libraries into their 3D applications, with support for cloud and local AI systems ranging from NVIDIA RTX Spark to NVIDIA DGX Station. A new blueprint for integrating Omniverse libraries in Blender is also available, demonstrating how agent-ready simulation capabilities can be added to existing 3D tools while keeping creators in control.

Investors can stop paying tuition to the stock market with Digital Twin and Spatial Computing technology, using the concept of creating a simulated portfolio to test risks before investing real money, instead of trial and error that could wipe out principal. Dr. Supachai Sukhanin, an investment and AI expert, reveals that Smart Money uses AI to build a Portfolio Digital Twin, simulating thousands of scenarios such as a sudden bear market to see Maximum Drawdown and asset overlap, before adjusting allocations for the best Risk-Adjusted Return. The Spatial Computing and Digital Twin Platform business sector is growing at an average of nearly 40% per year, and investing in these companies is like investing in the shovel sellers of the virtual world era.

Hanshow Technology and Microsoft have officially signed a long-term global strategic cooperation agreement at Microsoft's headquarters in Seattle. The two parties will engage in full-chain deep collaboration spanning from joint technology research and development to joint market promotion, focusing on areas such as physical AI solutions, store digital twins, and Azure cloud cooperation. Hanshow Technology is one of the world's leading providers of comprehensive digital store solutions for the pan-retail sector. Since fully launching its Hanshow 2.0 strategy in 2025, it has been advancing digital solutions covering all store scenarios, driven by AI and data at its core and centered on digital twins. Microsoft, leveraging the strengths of its Azure platform in cloud computing, big data, AI agents, and edge computing, provides technical support for real-time access, processing, and intelligent analysis of massive store data. This strategic cooperation builds on the memorandum of understanding signed by the two parties in 2024, marking an upgrade from project-level joint innovation to a group-level, long-term strategic alliance targeting the global market.