SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification ministry on Wednesday said it has virtually recreated lost villages in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that existed prior to the 1950-1953 Korean War through a metaverse platform. Some 400 villages were known to have existed in the DMZ, among which the ministry picked the largest ones [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that its ‘Metaverse Seoul’ was named as one of the Best Inventions of 2022 by the U.S. news magazine TIME. Metaverse Seoul was recognized as the only case of innovation among public inventions in the metaverse category. It is a metaverse platform established for [...]
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Triller, the leading AI-powered creator platform, is taking its creator-first approach to the metaverse. Today, Triller announces their latest venture: the Metaverz, a first-of-its-kind virtual integrated digital, technology, media, and entertainment platform. Inside the Metaverz, fans can attend a virtual concert featuring their favorite artists or make their way past the [...]
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Decentraland, the world’s largest user-owned and operated virtual social world, announced today the sophomore edition of Metaverse Music Festival (MVMF), including confirmed talent, new types of metaverse experiences, and more. This year, MVMF returns bigger and bolder from November 10-13 with 100 confirmed artists (more to come) across uniquely [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Model houses using metaverse technology are emerging as a new trend in the South Korean construction industry, as part of efforts to reduce the cost needed to build and operate real model houses as well as to reach a wider customer base without physical limits. Lotte Engineering & Construction Co., [...]
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 [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — After opening on September 1 to the Detroit public, the ‘LoveITDetroit’ exhibit-installation is now also accessible on the metaverse (www.loveitdetroit.com). Presented as a “celebration of Made in Italy in the United States”, the exhibition-installation was launched on the initiative of the Italian Consulate in Detroit, as part of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The metaverse unit of South Korean internet portal giant Naver Corp. has partnered with Thai communications conglomerate True Corp. to build a global metaverse hub for Thai content creators. Naver Z Corp., which operates the popular South Korean metaverse platform Zepeto, said it signed a memorandum of understanding with [...]
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. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the popularity of the term ‘metaverse’, only a few have tried out the virtual platform, a poll showed Thursday. Consumer Insight, a local consumer survey company, conducted a survey of 3,797 cellphone users in the country over 14 years of age, 82 percent of whom said they were aware [...]