Korea gets into metaverses
The Electronic Times is reporting that “3D virtual reality service reviving in Korean market.” Specifically, that people are seeing all the attention paid to Second Life, and are getting projects underway.
Among them, Real Time Worlds Asia (any connection to Real Time Worlds in Scotland, the guys doing APB?) says they’re making an SL clone with the Unreal engine. And there’s another one called Azitro that is launching next month and features a very charming line art style on its website — but not in its world, based on the screenshots, which look a lot like SimCity.
The article also introduced me to a Korean world I had never heard of: Dadaworlds, which looks like a Shockwave virtual world with a very heavy dose of cyberoptimism and a lot of real world tie-in.
“There will be about 100 of Second Life resemblance this year,” Director of Acid Crebiz, who developed virtual reality for the first time in Korea, forecasted. Meanwhile, developed by Shin Yoo-Jin, architectural engineering professor at Kwangwoon University, the first virtual reality service DadaWorlds once had over 100,000 users, but now there are only 200 users.
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