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Cluster Expands into Three New Business Areas

Cluster Corporation, headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo, is set to broaden its scope by officially entering three key domains: Digital Twin, Physical AI, and Research. This announcement will take place during the TakeOff Tokyo 2026 international startup conference on April 1st, where Cluster will unveil its newly established Business Development Division. With this division, the company aims to provide comprehensive support from business conceptualization through to technical implementation and operation, integrating its expertise across these emerging technologies.

New Dimensions for Business Innovation

By leveraging advanced technologies developed through its metaverse platform 'cluster,' such as large-scale simultaneous connection infrastructure, 3D spatial generation technology, and behavioral data analysis, Cluster intends to address challenges and facilitate new business developments across various sectors including construction, real estate, mobility, manufacturing, infrastructure, and facility management.

Addressing Current Challenges

The shift towards representing buildings, cities, and products in 3D digital form is rapidly gaining traction in industries like construction and manufacturing. Nevertheless, the adoption of these 3D digital models has been limited to specialists equipped with specialized software, leaving owners, site managers, and residents disconnected from this valuable information. While the concept of Digital Twin is being employed, the reality often falls short as users can mainly view these spaces in 3D without the ability to engage interactively.

The problem lies in the extensive data requirements, which makes it technically challenging for multiple users to access and effectively interact within the same virtual space. Therefore, areas represented digitally still lack human presence, unlike their real-world counterparts. However, enabling users to walk around these spaces opens a wealth of possibilities. Understanding "where people gather," "which pathways they select," and "what holds their attention" can provide critical data insights.

Harnessing Human Interaction in Digital Spaces

The essence of Cluster's innovation is to incorporate human interaction into the Digital Twin environment. By facilitating concurrent access for users in a virtual space, various activities such as remote design reviews, training sessions based on recreated environments, and stakeholder agreements can occur in ways never achievable before. This dual feedback loop – returning behavioral and operational data to the real world – affords significant advancements in the design and management of buildings, cities, and mobility.

Infrastructure of Interaction

Cluster's foundational infrastructure allows simultaneous entry of up to 100,000 users into the same space, across a range of devices from PCs to smartphones and VR goggles. Coupled with the technology to collect and analyze user behavior data within these spaces, Cluster's commitment to merging physical and digital dimensions is poised to redefine experiences across various domains, engendering environments where data and experience continuously cycle.

The Core Functions of the Business Development Division

1. Business Co-Creation: The division will focus on collaboratively addressing client challenges, devising strategies for 3D data utilization, developing new business concepts, and designing solutions based on experiences derived from the Digital Twin environment.

2. Technology and Research: By integrating researchers in VR/HCI/ML fields with solution engineers, the division will bring cutting-edge research insights to technology strategy formulation, executed from proof of concept through to full implementation. Furthermore, they will present findings at premier international conferences like IEEE VR.

3. Platform and Technical Delivery: Utilizing Cluster's proprietary platform and unique technological assets, solution engineers and platform engineers will work in tandem to support the establishment, operation, and performance validation of Digital Twin environments, AI agents, and Physical AI frameworks.

Envisioning Future Business Domains

The Business Development Division is set to unleash its initiatives in three primary areas:

• - Digital Twin Development: Automatically generating Digital Twin spaces from BIM/CAD/point cloud data (patent pending), providing real-time environmental visualization through IoT sensor integration, and conducting comprehensive analyses of behavioral and spatial data.

• - Physical AI and Robotics: Developing and providing an AI agent framework that can act autonomously within the Digital Twin space, transferring AI insights learned in the digital realm back to physical robots and devices, thereby facilitating the bi-directional flow of data.

• - Advanced Research: Building upon the 'Cluster INSIGHT' framework, large-scale experiential research and experimentation in the Digital Twin ecosystem will yield qualitative and behavioral data unseen in conventional survey methods, supporting informed decisions in product development, spatial design, and urban planning.

Promising Collaborations and Future Prospects

Cluster has already initiated multiple partnerships with major general contractors, mobility and real estate firms, governmental bodies, and hospitals in varied fields. The specifics of these projects will be announced gradually. Cluster aims to expand its implementation cases across these domains, accelerating the societal realization of