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Realistic
Basics
Metaverse and digital human

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GCC Academy

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Learning Goals
Can explain metaverse contents and materializing technology
Can explain digital human contents and materializing technology

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Learning Content
Metaverse contents and materializing technology
Digital human contents and materializing technology

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CEO Jeong Jiwon
Career
Current board member of T.OZ corp.
Former board member of Wysisyg Stutdios corp.
General director of Lotte World theme park Taekwon V VR
General director of Gyeonggi Contents Agency Gyeonggi VR AR

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General director of Jeju National Museum realistic videography
General director of Sokcho Museum realistic content creating

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Hello, this is Jeong Jiwon in charge of realistic content lectures

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What we will learn today is about metaverse and digital human

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Recently the word 'metaverse' has been becoming more familiar

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but metaverse is seen to develop into a broader concept

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The interest recently is more about digital humans

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Taking a look into digital human and metaverse on this lecture

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I see these as different formats with extended frames

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We'll see how these are applied

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and the background of it

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Metaverse contents and materializing technology

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The thing that is most important when talking about metaverse and digital human is

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experience without friction

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An experience itself not having alien feeling is what metaverse and digital humans,

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and the feelings people get in day-to-day life

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will be a very important experience

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The concept metaverse

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I am sure that you might have heard it a lot

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Meta means transcendence, and more

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and universe means the world and the universe

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These two words together make the word metaverse

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There was a novel with the concept of metaverse

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There's a novel Neal Stephenson wrote in 1992

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It is the novel 'Snow Crash'

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Here, Neal Stephenson coins the term 'avatar'

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and calls the internet-based 3D world that avatars live in, equivalent to the real world's universe,

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the virtual world a 'metaverse'

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That way, with the word 'metaverse' the concept of metaverse is created in this novel

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The most important thing when talking about metaverse is

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there must be an avatar that represents me

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and there must be a virtual space where that avatar lives

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So in fact, the real metaverse world

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is when the physical environment that we live in and the virtual environment

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is experienced with no alien feeling

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That is seen as the process of going to the real metaverse world

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Actually, the metaverse until now are

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seen as the technological process of early metaverse

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And even though metaverse is taking a pause now

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I believe that metaverse will realize a more realistic world

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and go through the process of showing more realistic characters

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And if we say that within this virtual world, real economic actions take place

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you will be able to have experiences

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that are hard to differentiate the real world and the virtual world

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So when these physical real world augmented with virtuals

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and when the physical world perfectly aligns with the virtual

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I think the metaverse world that we feel will unfold

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In 2014, in IEEE,

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when talking about metaverse

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it was mentioned as a progressed internet that is connected between

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sensible virtual world and composed of perpetual 3rd dimension virtual spaces

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And in 2020, Jensen Huang of NVIDIA

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mentioned that metaverse is coming, which made

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metaverse a keyword that a lot of people paid attention to

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2022, as you will know

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is an era when COVID-19 was existent and also when metaverse

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was emphasized

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So in a metaverse world, the real and the virtual must interact

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and as they evolve, within them, social, economic, cultural actions take place

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and through these some kind of value is produced

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This would be the real metaverse

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When defining metaverse, we can categorize them into 4 types

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First is Augmented Reality

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Within the physical environment that the user senses in everyday life

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a virtual object within it

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It would be the augmented reality with the interface between it

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Where this augmented reality's characteristic shows is

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virtual fitting

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Virtual fitting is, using a vertical screen

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When you put your body in front of it, scanning your body, you can try clothes on

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or others, these would be it

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And these days there are also ones for makeup

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So using a smartphone, when putting makeup on and choosing which lipstick to put on

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Fitting in on the avatar or my face

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or see it will also be one

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The second type is life logging

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Life logging is logging information about a human's body, emotion, experience, and movement

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by oneself or on a device

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and realizing these on a virtual space

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An example would be smart watches

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Smart watches log daily life information like steps,

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heart rates, or pulse

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and checks on my health through these

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This life logging type is another type of metaverse

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The third type is virtual worlds

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Virtual world is, using digital technology

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expanding real life's economy, society, and political world,

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worlds formed similarly or alternatively

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A good example would be Second Life

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Second Life is where in a virtual world

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avatars interact

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and make costumes and sell them

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This virtual world best realized is

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the movie 'Ready Player One' that I keep mentioning

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There, one's character shows up in an avatar form

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They can see the avatar character living in there

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If you watch this movie once more

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you will be able to understand how this virtual world is formed

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The fourth type is mirror world

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Mirror world is, in a way

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similar to the concept of digital twin

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So it is realistically recreating the physical world we live in

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Recently, in the case of digital twin,

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digital twinning a city, or especially a factory

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forming an information-wise expanded world by creating more specific virtual information

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on top of the physical world

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To give an easy example, Google Earth would be one

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In recent cases, you can think of digital twin integrated with industries

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to understand this type of metaverse

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The next we'll take a look is from the book 'What is the Metaverse'

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Yi In-hwa wrote this book

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Here, he defines what metaverse is

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First, there was PC internet era, then there is smartphone era

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and he says that there will be a metaverse era

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So PC internet era is defined as an era where information is sent

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Smartphone era is defined as when information is shared

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And metaverse era is defined as virtual residence era

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The keywords of information sending era are logging, searching, and contacting

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and the keywords of information sharing era are participation, cooperation, and open source

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And the keywords of metaverse's virtual residence era

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are digital asset, creation, and informationization of intelligence

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When first seeing metaverse, we said this a lot

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Isn't metaverse a game, an online game or something like that

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It in fact was online games that were most mentioned when explaining metaverse

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MMORPG were mentioned, but metaverse isn't exactly games

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It isn't games, it isn't web business either

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Rather, it would be better to understand it as a mixed media where

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games' information connection and society's connection is strengthened

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So in this book the author says that these artificial intelligence, online games, social softwares

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expanding and converging is what creates metaverse

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In a way, there are many contents created using generative artificial intelligence

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that are based on text or images

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or videos

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And in media terms there are virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality

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Then in terms of social software, there are cloud computing and unstructured data

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and use of data and so on

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So these all mixed creates

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the metaverse world

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Now we'll talk about the characteristics of metaverse

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When talking about this

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a lot of experts have said various stuff

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From those, I took that of David Baszucki

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What he mentions about the metaverse's characteristics are

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first, identity

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Identity is, in the metaverse world, the user appears in the form of an avatar

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This avatar has its identity and also makes friends with others' avatars

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This is what identity is

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These days, there's multi- or second-persona that we talk about a lot

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Before, if we talked about this concept it might have been weird

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but now, the concept of avatar or multi-persona has been familiarized

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becoming a concept that does not feel alien

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And the second is immersiveness

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Immersive

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What I consider to me important when talking about metaverse is this immersiveness

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The reason why the existing metaverse was turned down by people is

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because it was lacking immersiveness in the experience

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That is, the experience in the metaverse must have a similar feeling to that in the real world

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but that people couldn't feel that similarity

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was the limit of the existing metaverses

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So since the concept of metaverse and technology is growing now

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I think that the immersiveness similar to the real world

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will be better created in the future

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And the third is Anywhere, being able to move anywhere

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instantly would be a characteristic of the metaverse

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Fourth characteristic is Economy

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A lot of people mention economy when talking about the metaverse

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They think that in the metaverse, there must be a currency that is shared in the vitual world

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to have no difference from the life

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lived in the real life

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So the same thing must happen

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Economic activities and such must happen in the metaverse as well

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to have better immersiveness like in the real life

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In the idea of the world of metaverse

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there will be some space and some environment

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And in there, various avatars

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avatars representing me lives in that environment

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When these things are created, they must not harm each other

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This harm could be economic harm, the most important

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and there will also be that of personal aspects

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It will be very important to have safety gears for these things

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The most important thing when explaining metaverse is frictionless experience

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It's a concept of low-friction

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The reason why I consider this frictionless experience as important after economy and safety is

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what you know well among metaverse platforms are

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Zepeto and Roblox

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The one's who have tried will know but

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in Zepeto or Roblox, every time you visit that platform

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you had to make new avatars

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In the user perspective, having new characters in each platforms might have been fun

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but doing these simultaneously had a limit

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So the concept of frictionless experience is

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in many metaverses there are many avatars created

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and that when these are freely connected and moved around, that the effect will be greater

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So to give an example, especially economic activities

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So in Zepeto or in Roblox, when you are doing economic activity

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if these are freely circulated

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it is much more useful in the user perpective

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and also many people can use if, creating an influx

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Next is content

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When a new platform or a new concept is created

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it is always attempted to keep the interest and develop the technology

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making it go forward with continuity

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and content is a very important element in doing this

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We saw a 3D TV in the previous lecture

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3D TV is very important in terms of technology

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and it was a technology that has high applicability

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but it did not have much content

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so it was made for about 10 years but vanished after that

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So always, with the development of technology, new media appears

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and then what develops this media is the contents

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So what contents we can supply becomes an important factor

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In metaverse as well, what's most important is these contents

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What's also important in metaverse is connection, mobility

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These are related to the internet

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So now we have 5G, 6G but

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especially when experiencing the metaverse, the immersiveness

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and doing economic activities and such

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the internet needs to be connected very quickly

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And especially now, we use AHMD to experience these

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but the device itself still is quite heavy

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These days with technological development, it has become smaller and ligher

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but it still is pretty bulky

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So the devices necessary to experience the metaverse,

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AHMD or glass or such's downsizing

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Reducing the bulkiness will be very important

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And interactiveness

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It is very important to consider how interactiveness will be assured in the experience of the metaverse

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So in a way, there's a method called hand tracking

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and then there's eye tracking

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Currently when experiencing through AHMD we usually use a controller

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In fact, this also diminishes the the convenience in terms of interactiveness

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So when these aspects are developed in time

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putting on a single pair of very light glasses will be enough to experience new things

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and the most important thing is how big and vivid the screen is

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Because the existing ones like HoloLens,

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augmented reality was best for depicting XR

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HoloLens itself also did not have that high of a resolution

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So it was cool, but it was a one-time experience

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and was not suitable for using it continually

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So HoloLens might have came in handy in industry field or education field

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but there were limits for normal people to experience

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If the concept of metaverse itself were to go towards a more meaningful one

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it has to be expanded into a service or experience concept from a production concept

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but this will only be possible when new experiences where one can transcend time and space is designed

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Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite, Zepeto, etc.,

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there were very many platforms and games

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Digital human contents and materializing technology

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Digital human will be very important when metaverse become materialized

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in the aspects or creating very realistic avatars for users

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and recently, there were also many images or videos

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made with generative artificial intelligence

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will be the movie 'Jurassic Park'

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When in 1993 Jurassic Park was out

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I remember everyone being so surprised while watching it

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The dinosaurs moving itself wasn't awkward like the ones that computer graphics showed before

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and they were very realistic

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so it was a content that was simply unable to not be immersed in it

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can maximize the value of realistic content greatly

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When we talk about digital human

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you often think of computer graphic technologies abroad first

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but there were digital humans in Korea as well

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In 1998, Cyberstar Adam

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was the first digital human

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and in a way he can be thought of as the

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content that became the beginning of virtual influencers

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The debut of Cyberstar Adam was very sensational

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but hundreds of millions of production cost was needed for a 30 second appearance on shows

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and that 30 second appearance would require two months of production

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causing an ironic situation

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huge amounts of people and computer graphic devices were needed and expensinve

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Final Fantasy

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and this caught a lot of attention since it was promoted as a movie made using photo reality method

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but were disappointed as the photo reality production was not as good

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I think that was kind of upsetting

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For digital humans, there must be that humans'

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language and body language that can be depicted

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the focus was more on the natural production with human technology and various

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computer hardware and computer software

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but now with generative artificial intelligence I think that the production will be much better

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and even the digital human made with generative artificial intelligence now

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do sometimes have some crooked or awkward parts

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but from a non-expert's perspective

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they are very naturally created these days

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So digital human's field has been diversifying recently

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if it was limited to games and movies before

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now it is used in areas like advertisement, distribution, health care, and production industry

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virtual Youtubers or virtual influencers appearing

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with the appearance of Youtubers, digital human has been

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being popularized and generalized

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felt the awkwardness of even the tiniest error with a larger impact before

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but now people seem to understand those things more naturally

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the uncanny valley, and this is

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a concept that when a fake human's similarity with a real human increases

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people feel rapidly increasing uncomfortability

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but these days that has improved

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and the details have been improving to the extend that it has become hard to differentiate real human

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and digital human

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the development of CGI technology and of the equipment for it

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Also especially entertainment labels or game production companies

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are trying to produce various things with digital human

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the appearance of real-time rendering technology

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that made possible creating high quality 3D humans

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in real time

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so before, to to 3D scanning, the device itself was very expensive

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but now 3D scan is

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for example SK Telecom's Jump Studio put

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106 cameras in a circle and filmed 60 frames per second

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to 3D capture the movement itself

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and you can consider that these things became possible

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with the development of real-time rendering and hardware technology

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and recently with the markerless method, it has developed a lot that now the movement can be

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suggested through the images obtained with cameras only

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but also the movements are very naturally produced

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minimizing the uncanny valley

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the movements also became more natural with image learning

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and through deep learning, with the data

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faces and movements

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were made much more natural through rigging like

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face rigging

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plays a crucial role in creating digital human

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There are many platforms for creating digital human as well

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so that everyone can make a digital human called meta human

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And Soul Machine made a digital DNA studio

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so the users can make digital human themselves

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made an AI studio for companies and creators to quickly produce

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digital human videos

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making it possible for any non-experts to make digital human

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when it was accessible for only few experts before with the advancement of technology

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This digital human is being used in influencer marketing or shows as I mentioned before

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and ESTsoft also showed an AI anchor

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in 2021

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And a New Zealander energy company Vector made

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a digital human 'Will' for elementary school students

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for energy education and consultation

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in an unmanned bank and performed customer service with it

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Digital human is also used in production simulation

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It is much more effective to have a character explain something to us

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compared to when we just watch a video that explains it to us

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in learning information

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so digital human is used in such simulations

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And NVIDIA made a platform called Omniverse

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this, in a way, is a metaverse platform

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and also a digital twin platform

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So this Omniverse platform of NVIDIA makes a virtual factory

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They created one that is almost identical to a real factory

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and put digital humans in there and watch the workers' workflow

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It is used to the extend to see the productivity or efficiency

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simulations using digital twin spaces as their backgrounds

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and this is currently actively being used

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And using digital human

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product design for ergonomic improvement is also actively done

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In the case of Mazda, they motion captured a human opening the door and getting off a car

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And turning this into a digital human

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they did tests in various angles

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That way, they used digital human to improve the experience of

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using the car door, and getting on and off the car

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affective computing and RPA can also be mentioned

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Affective computing is, being based on AI system,

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where digital human is well incorporated for the interaction of

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human and computers

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Hyperscale AI is now very general

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Those are also used in making digital human a lot

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Samsung and LG also used digital human and robots

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to provide custom mobility or future home

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What I often give as an example of a metaverse is Cyworld

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Cyworld can be considered as the beginning of Korean social media

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that was out in 1999 to 2019

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There was avatars and mini homepages, avatar in a virtual world

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So there's avatar that represents me

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and through this avatar,

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multi-persona started

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At the time, there were 32 million users

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and Cyworld can be considered the best case of a metaverse because

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in the online world, you gift your avatar clothes and other things

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and there is also a virtual currency 'Dotori(acorns)'

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Saving these, you could buy houses or clothes

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and these were created online

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So I heard that Cyworld is coming back to service

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So if the concept of Cyworld is well connected

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I think a better metaverse content will be created

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Cyworld, in 2022,

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starts to work together with a metaverse platform of Hancom, Psytown

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So various services on Cyworld

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was made into 3D from the existing 2D Cyworld

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and 3D avatar 'Minime' would log into Psyworld

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and that is how it is expanding

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This is also another most mentioned platform when it comes to metaverse

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An Avatar creating application Zepeto of Naver's affiliated company

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In Zepeto, a virtual character is created

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and the appearance was also customizable

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Especially in Zepeto,

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many luxury brands made spaces

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where people could visit

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and have new experiences in there

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that enabled them to get closer to Gen Z

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Especially, famous singers also performed in this world

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For example, the music video of Blackpink and Selena Gomez's collaboration

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was released in Zepeto and hit 100 million views

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That way, a lot of people entered the Zepeto world

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What Zepeto did great was that it worked as a fan platform

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and it worked well as a social media where

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avatars with various identities could communicate in a virtual world

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making it worth calling it a successful metaverse

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The second successful metaverse would be Roblox

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Roblox is famous among elementary school students

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In fact, Roblox's graphic quality is not that high

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But although it looks like Lego pieces,

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what immerses people into Roblox is

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the game itself

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The story and the characters,

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and the fact that it is possible to make a new world where you can share things with other people

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is the differentiating factor of a meta platform and

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the existing games that everyone had

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It is possible to make games without coding knowledge

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and through this, people can also profit off of it

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Since it is said that there are about 50 million games made inside the Roblox studio

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it can be considered that Roblox was well used as a space for

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economic, social, and communicative purposes

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Roblox was widely used not only in the US

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but also all over the world

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and a lot of people are still using it now

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When explaining metaverse we talk about economical efficiency

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And when mentioning economical efficiency, what is common is NFT

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It is a virtual currency using the blockchain technology

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When the concept of metaverse was introduced, NFT gained a lot of attention

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Now it is less popular but

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I am sure that NFT will make its comeback

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And famous brands make limited editions using NFT

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and making them digital assets

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Especially Nike used NFT very well

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Areas where digital human was used the most is

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Recently the most popular one was one made by SIDUS studios

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It was a digital human called Rozy

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Rozy also appeared in the advertisement market and gained a lot of popularity

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After that, Han Yuah of Smilegate

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or Ana of Battleground's Krafton

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and Netmarble FNC's affiliated company Metaverse Entertainment's Mave

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Many digital human contents were created in the name of

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digital human, virtual human, meta human, and virtual influence

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There used to be huge amounts of production costs and work force required for making digital human

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but with the emergence of generative artificial intelligence, it has become very easy for non-experts to make AI avatar as well

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Using ChatGPT, Midjourney, Naver CLOVA Voice, or Studio DID

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it is generalized to make generative AI avatars with

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faces, scripts, voices, and movements that anyone can create

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Expecially with OpenAI releasing Sora, a generative artificial intelligence,

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I think that the field of use will expand even further

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Today we learned about the metaverse and digital human

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We saw that there are four types of metaverse which are augmented reality, life logging, virtual world, and mirror world

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Then we talked about digital human and the creating technologies

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You can see through these lectures on realistic contents that there are many technologies

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I think it will be good to look up the common technologies when going to the field

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and especially taking a look into the keywords when acquiring information

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Good job on taking this lecture

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Summary
Metaverse contents and materializing technology
Metaverse
A world where the virtual and the real interact and evolve and where value is produced with social, economic, and cultural actions taking place

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Types of metaverse
Augmented reality, life logging, virtual world, mirror world

Characteristics of metaverse
Identity, immersiveness, anywhere, economy, safety, frictionless experience, contents

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Important elements of the metaverse
Quick connection to the internet, reduction in volume of devices, interactiveness, expansion of the  screen space

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Digital human contents and materializing technology
Developing factors of digital human
Development of CGI technology and special equipment, expert work force
Early digital human production and application based on

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entertainment labels, movie studios, game studios with enough budget
Real-time Rendering
3D Scan
Cyworld
Avatar that represents me, the start of multi-persona

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Able to decorate the virtual space using a virtual currency 'Dotori'
Zepeto
Naver's affiliated company SNOW's 3D avatar creating application

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Roblox
A platform where one can enjoy various games using a Lego-like avatar in a 3D virtual world