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Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Activision Blizzard has highlighted the importance of gaming in the development of metaverse platforms and SouthKorea is uniquely well placed to become one of the world’s leaders in the metaverse,” said Rory Gopsill, Graduate Analyst at GlobalData’s Thematic Team. Horizon Worlds.
SouthKorea is known for many things, from smartphone innovation to K-Pop. We can now add the XR to that list. The country has become fertile ground, given a culture of innovation and rich gaming & entertainment industries. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Their next initiative, creating “the world’s first hologram city,” combines elements of both of these technologies to map a digital version of Buyeo, SouthKorea. They’re also behind HoloPortal Studio, an application for hologram motion capture.
Of the 209,654 road accidents that took place in SouthKorea last year, over 31,000 were caused by elderly drivers. As a result, South Korean police are adopting a different strategy. The program will use immersive technology to test the driving, cognitive, and memory skills of those aged 65 years and up. Image Credit: UPS.
Sony said earlier this year it was bringing PC VR support to PSVR 2 , and while we still don’t know when that’s set to arrive, it appears the company is nearing the final steps thanks to a certification with the competent certifying authority in SouthKorea.
This Monday, SouthKorea’s Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that its Metaverse platform for public service relationships is now open to the capital’s population. In September, SouthKorea’s Ministry of Science and Information Communications Technology dedicated roughly 2.6 trillion won ($2.2
Reuters cites a report by The China Academy of Information and Communications which states that China’s VR action plan could be the result of the United States and SouthKorea’s continued investment in their respective immersive technology industries. For more information check out the full action plan here.
SouthKorea, one of the world’s leading examples for novel coronavirus containment, is struggling with a recent surge of thousands of infections of the virus. Some in the country are calling for a version of a tried-and-true solution practiced all around the world: restrictive social distancing measures. Read more.
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Meta is reportedly teaming up with South Korean tech giant LG Electronics to offer up competition to the Apple’s forthcoming Vision Pro mixed reality headset, which is slated to arrive sometime in 2024.
Play-to-earn (P2E) games where users trade their playtime for crypto earnings are the latest trend to take the crypto community by storm, and the latest subject of a crackdown over in SouthKorea. Regional newswire Naver was first to report that South Korean authorities have asked Apple and Google to block these games’… Read more.
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The post Dedicated ‘Beat Saber’ Machine to Hit VR Arcades in SouthKorea & China appeared first on Road to VR. As for the West, Beat Games has already penned a deal with Springboard VR to bring Beat Saber to VR arcades across North America and Europe.
.” Microsoft has also recently expanded HoloLens 2’s availability to Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, SouthKorea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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Nreal is getting ready to ship its Nreal Light AR headset to consumers in SouthKorea. As reported by The Verge , Nreal is now taking pre-orders from Korea-based consumers, available through Korean telecom LG Uplus. Light AR will be available in stores there starting August 21st.
Since its penultimate funding round in February 2019, the company has since commercialized it Nreal Light AR headset, which is currently only available in SouthKorea. SEE ALSO Facebook Wants to Build an AR Headset to Supercharge Your Hearing, Create a Custom HRTF from a Photograph. In that country it costs ?
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Santa Monica-based film and TV studio, Lionsgate, is opening theme parks in SouthKorea and China. In 2020, Lionsgate will followup their Chinese indoor theme park with an outdoor park in SouthKorea in the tourism hub of Jeju Island. The 237,000-square foot indoor theme park will be located in China.
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Since its founding in 2016, Varjo has expanded its global operations and reseller network to over 40 countries in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific, with the launch of sales and direct shipping to markets such as Singapore, Israel, SouthKorea, Australia and New Zealand.
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Announced during the main press briefing at Microsoft’s event held in San Francisco, Intel will be bringing a ‘Windows Mixed Reality experience’ for the 2018 Winter Olympics in SouthKorea. This forms part of a multi-year technology partnership between Intel and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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Before its release in the US, Nreal has rolled out via telecoms in SouthKorea, Japan, Germany and Spain. The company says Light will also support iPhones in some capacity, however it hasn’t specified how that works.
The company’s long-awaited entrance into the US market has still yet to come though, as Pico has only released its consumer-focused headsets in Europe and East Asia (China, SouthKorea, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore).
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