SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Thirty-year-old fund manager Park Jong-il, who works in the financial district of Yeouido in western Seoul, tees off at his favorite golf course located on the southern resort island of Jeju at least once a week after work. Instead of booking the one-hour flight and possibly reserving a hotel [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — As a flood of theme parks and gaming centers featuring virtual reality (VR) content have been attracting customers, a new survey highlighting the interest in VR content by the mass public was published yesterday. According to the market research firm Embrain, 81.3 percent of 1,000 adult respondents between the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of virtual reality companies from both home and abroad gathered in Seoul on Wednesday to showcase the latest VR technologies that can impact ordinary lives now and in the future. The Korea VR Festival 2018, hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, kicked off for a five-day [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean army showed off firing exercises based on virtual reality and training exercises in augmented reality at the Korean Military Academy yesterday with 80 high-level military officials present at the demonstration session including Kim Yong-u, the Army Chief of Staff. Last year, the Korean Military Academy won a [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new virtual reality program that will be used to better prepare police officers for cases of sexual violence and child abuse is being launched by a South Korean police agency. The Gyeonggi provincial government and the Gyeonggi Bukbu Provincial Police Agency held a test event for the agency’s VR-based [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — With the introduction to market of 5th generation wireless systems (5G) forecast for next year, there has been an abundance of gaming content and shopping services integrated with VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality) — two technologies widely considered to be hallmarks of a 5G future — released. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it assisted a retired NASA astronaut who took part in the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission to experience landing on the moon with Google’s Daydream View VR headset. LG Electronics said it used the V30 smartphone and the Google headset to help the astronaut, Jim [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — When people hear the words “virtual reality” (VR), most would think of video games with awkward VR headsets. Some would think of “The Matrix,” the movie where the main character, Neo, realizes that his reality is actually a computer simulation and that the Matrix is a VR version of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Korean companies are using virtual reality in their marketing campaigns as the latest technology that allows people to thoroughly experience products online before purchasing has proven to improve customer satisfaction. VR technology has been increasingly popular in the mobile and desktop online shopping industry in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The international sensation augmented reality-based mobile game Pokémon Go has suffered a significant drop in user numbers in South Korea over the past five months, with the user base estimated to be a mere sixth of what it was in January, when the app was released, according to the [...]