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South Korea Is Building Its Own K-Pop Metaverse

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Superstars acts like BTS alone have generated billions for the South Korean economy. The K-pop industry is so massive, the country actually relies upon it as one of its primary sources of gross national income next to Samsung. In September 2021, the South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT announced plans to invest a whopping $7.5

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Nreal Light AR Smart Glasses Will Be Bundled With Latest Samsung And LG Smartphones

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Seeing as the Nreal Light needs an Android device in order to function properly, Korean technology companies Samsung and LG are partnering with Nreal to offer consumers a discounted price on the soon-to-be-released AR headset with the purchase of a Samsung Galaxy Note 20 or LG Velvet smartphone on South Korea’s LG U+ carrier.

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Nreal Launches $600 ‘Light’ AR Glasses in United States via Verizon

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It also boasts a screen mirroring function for your phone so you can use every app on it, as well as the ability to use multiple browser windows so you can watch a video and surf the web in different floating monitors. Samsung Galaxy S21+ 5G. Samsung Galaxy S21 5G. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 5G. Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G UW.

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

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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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LG-Made Quest Pro 2 Will Reportedly Ship In The First Half Of 2025

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The Korea Economic Daily cites "industry sources" as saying that Mark Zuckerberg will meet with the CEO of LG Electronics on Wednesday to finalize the details of the partnership. This will be Zuckerberg's publicly-known trip to South Korea since 2014, when he visited Samsung to finalise the Gear VR smartphone headset partnership.

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

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As reported by TechCrunch , the latest financing round was led by Chinese video sharing platform Kuaishou, with participation by iQiyi, GP Capital, CCEIF Fund, GL Ventures, and Sequoia Capital China. Nreal, the China-based company behind the Nreal Light AR glasses , today announced its secured another $40 million in funding.