Capgemini and Unity Announce a Global Alliance Partnership to Help Organizations Leverage the Business Value of Immersive and Metaverse Experiences

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Unity (NYSE: U) and Capgemini have announced a global partnership aimed at accelerating the development of tailored metaverse solutions across various industries. This multi-year alliance will focus on enhancing digital customer and employee experiences through real-time 3D technology. Key initiatives include joint R&D projects at the Capgemini Metaverse Lab, shared business development efforts, and scaling a global talent pool proficient in Unity's RT3D technology. The collaboration targets sectors such as consumer goods, manufacturing, and financial services, aiming to unlock significant business opportunities.

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• Launch of a global partnership with Capgemini to enhance metaverse solutions.
• Joint R&D initiatives at Capgemini Metaverse Lab to drive innovation.
• Expansion of talent pool through joint recruitment and training on Unity's RT3D technology.
• Focus on sectors with high potential for digital transformation.

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Together, they will play a key role in designing and scaling tailored metaverse solutions for clients and accelerate the convergence between the physical and digital worlds

PARIS & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Capgemini and Unity (NYSE: U), the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content, are joining forces to help organizations everywhere explore and seize business opportunities and benefits of immersive and metaverse experiences across industries.

Over the years, Capgemini and Unity have delivered together numerous value-creating projects for major global companies such as building an interactive application for a major consumer goods company that allows sales teams to visualize shelf space layouts in 3D, or developing an immersive simulator for a fire fighting vehicle manufacturer to train its operators.

Building on these assignments, the two companies will now jointly define and execute sector-specific solutions and professional services to deliver tailored platforms for each client. As part of this new multi-year global partnership alliance, they will:

• define approaches and methodologies, and conduct joint R&D projects as part of the Capgemini Metaverse Lab, jointly contributing to the building of the future metaverse/Web3;
• support each other in terms of business development, solution development and sales initiatives, leveraging expertise and market insights from both organizations;
• scale up a global bench of talent certified on Unity’s RT3D technology, through joint recruitment and training initiatives, in order to grow the global talent pool in these fields.

This new global alliance partnership will focus on sectors and use cases where the digital customer or employee experiences will benefit most: consumer goods & retail, manufacturing, life sciences, telecommunications, media & technology, energy & utilities, financial services, and public services.

“Metaverse and immersive experiences open a whole universe of possibilities for our clients across industries, from enabling more emotional connections with consumers, and reinventing employee experience and collaboration, to optimizing engineering, manufacturing and operations using digital twins,” said Pascal Brier, Chief Innovation Officer at Capgemini and member of the Group Executive Committee. “Shaping sector-specific use cases and developing them at scale will require expert technical and operational capabilities. We are thrilled to partner with Unity, one of the major engines of the metaverse, to enable our clients to realize its real business value.”

“We are thrilled to partner with Capgemini to accelerate the adoption of real time 3d technologies across a number of industries” said Marc Whitten, SVP and General Manager, Unity Create Solutions. “Unity’s real time 3D solutions will bring many new companies into the next generation of the internet, or Metaverse, helping them achieve greater engagement with their customers.”

Unity, a global leader in real-time 3D and immersive experiences, will enhance Capgemini’s capabilities from customer and employee experience (CX/EX) strategy and design to front-end development and integration. With its global footprint, its deep industry expertise and understanding of client needs, as well as its ability to deliver on large-scale digital transformation projects, Capgemini will help to accelerate the growth of Unity’s technology platform. Capgemini will also share market trends and client insights which will enable Unity to further enhance its product roadmap. Joint client projects will benefit from Capgemini’s holistic capabilities in shaping business models and strategies, as well as its technology expertise in components that will be instrumental to roll-out and scale the future metaverse/decentralized Web3. These include AR, VR and MR¹, blockchain and NFTs, 5G/6G, AI, internet of things and cybersecurity.

Capgemini’s new Metaverse-Lab to help clients shape and execute their metaverse strategies

Capgemini is progressing its ambitions in this new emerging era of the internet through its Metaverse-Lab, comprising a team of senior technology experts from across the Group with a strong track record in the key underlying technologies of the Web3 / metaverse. The Lab aims at shaping industry-specific metaverse strategies and will develop disruptive actionable solutions and platforms with its partners including Unity. Its R&D programs will cover the future of immersive human-machine interfaces and controllers, the future of work in the metaverse, the future of digital twins, and the future of blockchain and Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO).

About Unity

Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity is the foundation upon which the world’s most powerful digital content is created. Specifically, Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. In the fourth quarter of 2021, Unity had, on average, 3.9 billion monthly active end users who consumed content created or operated with its solutions. The applications developed by these creators were downloaded, on average, five billion times per month in 2021.

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About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2021 global revenues of €18 billion.

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¹Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality

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Capgemini press contact:

Victoire Grux

Tel: +33 6 04 52 16 55

Email: victoire.grux@capgemini.com

Unity press contact:

Kelly Ekins

Tel: +1 514 473 6087

Email: kellye@unity3d.com

Source: Unity

FAQ

What is the new partnership between Unity and Capgemini about?

Unity and Capgemini have formed a global partnership to accelerate the development of tailored metaverse solutions for various industries.

When was the partnership between Unity and Capgemini announced?

The partnership was announced in August 2022.

What are the expected outcomes of the Unity and Capgemini partnership?

The partnership aims to enhance digital experiences using real-time 3D technology, focusing on sectors like consumer goods, manufacturing, and life sciences.

How will Unity benefit from the partnership with Capgemini?

Unity will gain insights into market trends and client needs, which will help improve its product roadmap.

What technologies will be developed under the Capgemini Metaverse Lab?

The lab will focus on R&D in immersive human-machine interfaces, digital twins, blockchain, and other metaverse-related technologies.