When Boeing built the 777 in 1989, it already used metaverse-related technology to develop the engine through simulating the environment, said Ted Chang, Chief Technology Officer at Quanta. Now Quanta is collaborating with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to apply virtual-reality integration technology to the medical field, furthering the introduction of smart medicine. Chang pointed out that the human body is a universe, and digital simulation of the human body to create a digital twin will enable precise medical treatment in a safer metaverse environment.
He also joked that he often goes to hospitals, not to see patients, but to meet with doctors to understand the problems that need to be solved in hospital operations.
Fortunately, medical institutions have a certain degree of trust in Quanta. At present, there are 28 medical institutions and schools in Taiwan that have partnered with Quanta, and the number is increasing.
Chang added that the popular metaverse has long been used in aerospace engineering, for example, when Boeing was producing the 777 passenger jet, it was already developing a simulated environment. The so-called metaverse is the transfer of the real and virtual worlds, and its applications include not only audio-visual entertainment, but also smart factories, and smart healthcare, which also requires metaverse technology.
He further said that the human body is the universe and every organ can be digitally simulated and made into a digital doppelganger, so that precise medical treatment can be carried out in a safe environment, whether it is surgery in a hospital or learning in a classroom.
The hospital used meta-universe to simulate the procedure before a pair of conjoined babies were divided in Brazil recently, and then the actual operation took significantly less time. However, he also pointed out that in the past, digital simulations were done in a linear mode, whereas the human body is complex and has many non-linear factors, and it is necessary to think about how to convert raw data into Meta data.
To use the human body as a source of big data, various Internet of Things (IOT) devices must be used to collect it, and for immediate response, 5G must be used to connect with artificial intelligence (AI) to send predictions to the edge. He said that the essence of intelligent healthcare is to build models that can predict the outcome when new data is fed in through data training.
As for the strategy of smart healthcare, in short, it can be represented by ABCDEF: A is AI, B is big data, C is cloud, D is device, E is edge and F is digital finance.
As for Quanta's bullishness on smart healthcare, when will the business opportunities ferment? From NB in the past to servers in the future, Quanta has become the world's No. 1. However, unlike the hardware foundry mentality of the past, where a large number of products were manufactured to reduce costs, the path of smart medical services is different, but there is a lot of room for future development.
