Dr. Leif Oppermann is head of the Mixed and Augmented Reality Solutions group at Fraunhofer FIT in Sankt Augustin, which is a part of the Cooperation Systems research department. Prior to joining FIT, he was a research fellow at the Mixed Reality Lab of the University of Nottingham, UK, where he also earned his PhD. His main research interest is in augmenting the analogue with the digital (AR/MR/XR, mobile HCI, web-based collaboration) and applying it all to the workplace. Leif currently leads the German BMDV-project www.5GTroisdorf.de which features an Industrial Metaverse use-case. He also supports road-mapping the topic for Fraunhofer.