SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A subsidiary of the South Korean tech giant Naver that operates the metaverse platform Zepeto, known as Naver Z, has announced that it will be ending remote work and instituting a four-day in-office work week starting on April 15. The metaverse, a 3D virtual world, initially gained traction during the [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Z Corp.’s mobile-based metaverse platform Zepeto is under fire for selling Japanese costumes worn during the early stages of Japan’s colonization of the Korean peninsula. The costumes, released Tuesday, were soon reported by users as sensitive items that could incite discrimination as well as political and social disputes. [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of daily active users (DAU) for U.S.-based Roblox, a platform of user-created games and a metaverse leader, shot up to a one-year high this month in South Korea. According to the data by mobile big data platform IGAWorks, Roblox saw its DAU reach 422,378 in the February [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s biggest carmaker by sales, is joining the metaverse, a virtual environment where users interact through digital avatars. The company announced that it will offer virtual test drives of the Sonata N Line on metaverse platform Zepeto. The N Line brand sits between Hyundai’s high-performance [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecom giant KT Corp. on Wednesday opened the Suwon KT Wiz Park in metaverse platform Zepeto. The mobile carrier owns the KT Wiz of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO). The park allows Zepeto users to meet with KT Wiz’s star baseball players without having to go to [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — As the pandemic fuels demand for online activities, South Korean tech companies are bolstering efforts to develop “metaverse” platforms that allow users to shift their physical experiences to a virtual space. Metaverse refers to a virtual space, often incorporating augmented reality (AR) technology, in which users interact with others [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The fashion industry is turning to “metaverse” marketing as the three-dimensional, virtual space is rising as an alternative social platform. The metaverse refers to a shared virtual space, in which users interact with each other through digital avatars and experience a virtual reality (VR) world. Naver Z’s ZEPETO, an [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s entertainment industry, ranging from big entertainment agencies to multi channel networks (MCNs), is wooing the nation’s leading Internet portal Naver Corp. amid growing interest in augmented reality (AR) avatars that are enjoying rising popularity among teenagers. Naver’s subsidiary Naver Z Corp., the operator of a 3D avatar [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Tourism Organization announced Monday that it will use an augmented reality (AR)-based avatar application to promote the country’s tourism industry. The app, named ZEPETO, uses face recognition as well as AR and 3D technology to create avatars in a virtual space. The app is currently being used [...]