The presentation described the frontiers, and the future, of CAE and simulation technologies and their role in virtual product creation and learning environments. The environments was ambient intelligent environments, incorporating a synergistic combination of novel agent-supported visual simulation, CAE, CAx, management tools and facilities (with cognitive learning and understanding abilities); nontraditional methods; Massively multiplayer online role-playing game(MMORPG) tools; immersive displays; and multimodal, human-like interfaces.