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South Korea Is Building Its Own K-Pop Metaverse

VRScout

The K-pop industry is so massive, the country actually relies upon it as one of its primary sources of gross national income next to Samsung. “For example, in September 2021, the government had already committed to investing $2.2 Superstars acts like BTS alone have generated billions for the South Korean economy.

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Samsung’s 3-Year Hyperconnectivity Plan Behind the Moohan XR Headset

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Recently, Samsung’s dive into the XR headset market has been stealing headlines. Samsung is on a mission, and the timing of Samsung’s AI-powered AR device comes at an interesting time. Samsung is on a mission, and the timing of Samsung’s AI-powered AR device comes at an interesting time.

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Metaverse and Investing – Opportunities for Retail Investors Part 1: Hardware

ARPost

Let me give you just a few very well-known examples: Meta bought Oculus VR for 2 billion dollars when there was still only a prototype headset. The US government closed a 22-billion contract with Microsoft for the development of AR for the military and the provision of HoloLens to soldiers. Let’s see some examples, shall we?

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Central Korean XR Firms Secure Strategic Partnership to Supercharge Digital Twins

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

For example, in 2022, South Koreas Ministry of ICT, Science, and Future Planning pledged roughly $186.7 In the same year, Samsung Electronics announced its plans to establish dedicated 5G networks across the region for five public and private government agencies, utilizing the 4.7GHz and 28GHz frequency bands. million (223.7

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VRTUOLUO talks about its FBEC event and the VR ecosystem in China

The Ghost Howls

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on. What are Chinese VR enthusiasts asking for?

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HTC’s Alvin Graylin on What’s Happening in China & VR

Road to VR

He provided me with a lot of cultural context, which includes support from the highest levels of Chinese Government to invest in companies working on emerging technologies like virtual reality and artificial intelligence. There were a flood of Chinese companies at CES showing VR headsets, peripherals, and 360 cameras. Support Voices of VR.

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Meta and the next 24 months crucial for its leadership

The Ghost Howls

Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. We all know how Samsung is able to deliver beautiful home electronics devices, and it is a company that has also past experience about VR headsets (Gear VR and Odyssey+ were both good VR goggles).

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