SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s game developers are competing to promote their own metaverse platforms as Naver Corp.’s Zepeto dominating local metaverse market. NCSOFT Corp.’s Miniverse, up for release next month, is a platform where users can engage in a variety of online meetings in a 3D space through avatars. The company [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Tuesday that its researchers had developed a practical near-surface augmented reality (AR) device dubbed WonderScope. After being mounted on a smartphone and linked through Bluetooth, the WonderScope can see through the inside of the exhibits just like a magic [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean metaverse users, which plunged after the lifting of social distancing rules earlier this year, started increasing again in late July. According to Mobile Index, the big data analysis unit of local data tracker IGAworks, the number of domestic weekly active users (WAU) for the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is introducing its virtual avatar, G-Nusmas, the company’s first “alien employee.” The tech giant recently revealed a teaser on social media alluding to the introduction of G-Nusmas at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA), the biggest annual electronics fair in Europe, set to open in Berlin on Sept. [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Meta, the operator of Facebook, on Thursday withdrew a controversial plan to deny access to users of its famous platform if they do not accept the terms of its privacy policy update, a government official said. The decision came as the Personal Information Protection Commission has been looking into [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Personal Information Protection Commission is looking into whether the upcoming privacy policy update by Meta, the operator of Facebook, runs afoul of domestic law and will take action if any irregularities are found, officials said Friday. Meta has since late May sent out notifications to South Korean users [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Monday that it will launch a project to realize a variety of tourist attractions in the metaverse. Seoul, designated as a lead organization for this project by the Ministry of Science and ICT, will form a cross-regional consortium with North Gyeongsang Province and North [...]