Apple’s ‘Vision Pro’, the recent topic of metaverse and virtual reality (VR) world wide this 12 months, was found to be missing from the most important domestic exhibition.
On the seventeenth, the ‘2024 Korea Metaverse Festival (KMF 2024)’ opened on the aT Center in Yangjae, Seoul.
This event is Korea’s representative exhibition within the metaverse industry, hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and arranged by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency and the Korea Metaverse Industry Association. 250 firms will participate, with 420 booths, and will likely be open until the nineteenth.
On the event venue on this present day, it was difficult to search out exhibitions related to global hardware that leads the Metaverse and VR, resembling Vision Pro or Meta’s ‘Quest’.
Vision Pro-related content only appeared on the booths of scholars participating within the Metaverse competition, but was rarely found at corporate booths.
Regarding this, an official from a domestic company that’s introducing a metaverse-based music creation platform said, “Plainly more firms are specializing in self-produced AR glasses to implement specific technologies relatively than Vision Pro, which is general-purpose and targets the general public.”
He also added, “In truth, the variety of firms developing or producing dedicated AR glasses is increasing.”
Even on the conference held on the seventeenth and 18th, there is nearly no content targeting global hardware.
An official from a domestic Metaverse company that arrange a booth on the event also said, “It actually looks like the dimensions has decreased in comparison with last 12 months,” and “However the B2C content itself is receiving a great response.”
At this event, B2C and B2B firms showed up in step with the trend of advancement of the metaverse industry. The exhibition hall consists of a number one company and theme hall, a public experience hall, and a governance hall.
Choi Yong-gi, full-time vp of the Korea Metaverse Industry Association, said, “It is going to be a vital opportunity to look at this time and way forward for the virtual convergence industry and explore various business models and techniques with various domestic and foreign experts and corporations gathered in a single place.”
Reporter Jang Se-min semim99@aitimes.com
