BEST 4 Communication-Type Metaverse Platforms Every Hot Company Has Tried
BEST 4 Communication-Type Metaverse Platforms Every Hot Company Has Tried
Hello, this is Chris & Partners. 😊 From game-type metaverse👾 to communication-type metaverse🗣! Holding various content, metaverse platforms of many kinds have come out into the world. In today's post we'll look together at the types of communication-type metaverse platforms.
ifland
Source: SK Telecom Newsroom
ifland is a metaverse platform newly launched by SK Telecom. SKT created an in-house dedicated metaverse organization and has carried out steady research and development on the metaverse. Some of you may remember the previous platform ‘SK Virtual Jump Meetup.’ Through a sweeping upgrade and revamp, it was newly unveiled last July under the brand name ‘ifland.’ (Go to the ifland-related META-TREND) At launch, an SKT official said ifland's concurrent capacity is 131 people, and because you can view presentations and videos via a large screen, it focuses on communication, meetings, and conferences—and as if to prove that, it's receiving love calls from various companies and institutions. Korea University is building a metaverse-based smart campus with it, and this coming September it will even hold the Korea-Yonsei (Go-Yeon) games. Hanwha—through a collaboration, you can even enjoy fireworks on ifland. It's also reviewing the issuance of an in-platform currency and advancing plans to enter the global market, taking on the makings of a metaverse world. We look forward to ifland's future leap and growth.
ZEPETO
Source: Naver Z
What could be called a major pillar of Korea's metaverse platforms, ZEPETO is a metaverse platform centered on games, play, and communication for the MZ generation. So many companies have been collaborating with ZEPETO that you could call it a ‘metaverse primer’ for domestic companies and institutions. (Go to the ZEPETO-related META-TREND) With avatars and items that stimulate the MZ generation's desire to consume and own, ZEPETO holds a solid MZ-generation user base not only domestically but overseas. As a result, it has become an indispensable platform when countless companies and institutions—local governments such as Seoul and Jeonju, of course, as well as presidential candidates, financial institutions, the fashion industry, the retail industry, and more—run MZ-generation-targeting marketing. We look forward to ZEPETO's groundbreaking development going forward.
Gather.town
Source: Gather.town
A platform receiving as much interest as ifland and ZEPETO—that's Gather.town. Compared with the two three-dimensional, so-called ‘pretty and handsome’ platforms, Gather.town's avatars are pixel-style, giving the M generation nostalgia for childhood online games and Gen Z a new kind of enjoyment. Gather.town can be seen as a platform especially focused on communication—classes, meetings, conferences, and the like. As you freely move around the map and meet another avatar within range, you can automatically have voice and video conversations. Also, a big advantage is that you can freely design the map. By placing various items and setting interaction links, you can share and view diverse materials—videos, photos, presentation files, and more. LG CNS opened a metaverse town, and Goyang City held an admissions fair on Gather.town. Lotte E&C held a recruitment briefing using Gather.town, and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance held an online department workshop and a new-employee completion ceremony—so you can find examples of Gather.town being actively used for various events.
oVice
Source: oVice
oVice is an online collaboration tool and a work-use metaverse platform. In Japan it's a platform recognized in the online-office field, and it started service in Korea late last year. Its basic operating principle is similar to Gather.town. What differs from Gather.town is mouse-centered control instead of the keyboard, and the ability to designate the person you want to talk with, so that several groups in one space can converse simultaneously. Presentations also run smoothly during meetings, and small-group meetings can run at the same time. oVice held the ‘Welly Retreat Village’ event—with yoga, meditation, and talks—through a collaboration with the wellness startup Welly. It also realized the leading shared office FastFive to hold a demo day for startup companies.
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As cases of using the metaverse to run online offices and company/institution events increase, various communication metaverse platforms are appearing in ever more developed forms.
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