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DoubleMe to Make City-Scale Digital Twin of Buyeo, South Korea

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You can make a digital twin of the chachke on your desk with a mobile phone and a couple of minutes but creating “city-scale” digital twins requires huge amounts of data. Google is working on “world-scale” AR, in part using satellite data and mobile device location data that they already have access to.

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China Wants To Ship 25 Million VR Headsets By 2026

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The research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) reports that China shipped roughly half-a-million VR headsets in the first half of 2022. Credit: Bloomberg. This new plan aims to increase the value of the country’s VR industry to over 350 billion yuan ($48 billion) by the year 2026. Feature Image Credit: HTC Vive, Alvin Wang.

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Leveraging 5G Networks to bring VR to South Korea, with Korea Telecom’s Joonmo Park

XR for Business Podcast

One exception is South Korea, where a 5G network is quickly proliferating. Korea Telecom’s Joonmo Park discusses how his company is using the network to evangelize VR. Today, we're speaking with Joonmo Park, new media business development manager at Korea Telecom, the largest telecommunications company in South Korea.

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Leveraging 5G Networks to bring VR to South Korea, with Korea Telecom’s Joonmo Park

XR for Business Podcast

One exception is South Korea, where a 5G network is quickly proliferating. Korea Telecom’s Joonmo Park discusses how his company is using the network to evangelize VR. Today, we're speaking with Joonmo Park, new media business development manager at Korea Telecom, the largest telecommunications company in South Korea.

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AR Glasses Startup Nreal Secures $40M in Series B Financing

Road to VR

Since its penultimate funding round in February 2019, the company has since commercialized it Nreal Light AR headset, which is currently only available in South Korea. The very glasses-shaped headset, which requires a smartphone to drive its visuals, is being bundled with the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 or LG Velvet and a 5G data plan.

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AR Glasses Creator Nreal Secures $100M Series C Financing to Expand Internationally

Road to VR

According to data reported by Crunchbase , this brings the company’s lifetime funding to $171 million. Nreal Light has been on sale through telecoms in Japan, South Korea, Germany, and Spain, typically priced between $600 and $820 depending on the region.

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How Smart Cities Can Use Augmented Reality Technology

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See Also: Future Business Automation: Augmented Reality Applications Fueled by IoT Data Platforms. Smart cities leverage a network of interconnected objects and machines, which use big data and digital solutions to enhance the quality of government services and citizen welfare. They can gather data safely and efficiently.