SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/
-- DoubleMe, the creator of the social mixed reality (MR)
platform TwinWorld, announced their official partnership with a
historical South Korean city, Buyeo, on transforming the city into
the world's first "Hologram City."
DoubleMe demonstrated TwinWorld, a social mixed reality
platform, to Park Jeong-Hyun, the
mayor, and his officers from the city hall's cultural and tourism
department. They discussed the detailed plan for the "Hologram
City" project, a city-scale social mixed reality experience
starting from next year.
"Using simple and free tools, this will be the world's first
attempt to build a city-scale social mixed reality experience
created by citizens," said Mayor Park. "In an era of contactless
technology, this is a great opportunity to spread the culture of
Buyeo to the world."
With TwinWorld, citizens can build infinite layers of mixed
reality experiences onto the city, creating an entire area that
combines the sandbox gameplay of Minecraft with the AR and
geolocation applications of Pokémon GO.
"Buyeo once was the capital of Baekje (BC 18 ~ AD 677), an
ancient Korean kingdom known for technology and global cultural
exchange," said Albert Kim, CEO of
DoubleMe. "We're so excited to transform this historic city into
the next generation immersive landscape."
While all existing AR and MR platforms force the users to
consume pre-designed content, TwinWorld is all about
"user-generated immersive experiences."
To achieve this goal, DoubleMe will provide TwinWorld, its
social holographic reality platform, and headsets such as the
HoloLens 2 and Nreal to students and other community members in
Buyeo. This will allow citizens to design and share mixed reality
content such as 3D models, texts, videos, and audio with other
users.
Additionally, DoubleMe will host a "Hologram City Design
Hackathon" during the 67th Baekje Cultural Festival next year.
Students from all over the world will participate and design
memorable holographic experiences and help promote the beauty of
Baekje culture globally.
For those who don't live in South
Korea but still want to see the city for themselves,
DoubleMe will use their 3D spatial scanning technology to develop
life-size models, or digital twins, of Buyeo and its holographic
contents. Viewers will then be able to remotely have walk-through
experiences of the city, which will be made available via TwinWorld
in mid-to-late 2021.
DoubleMe is also working with 12 major global telecom carriers
such as BT, Deutsche Telecom, SingTel, and Vodafone to
commercialise the 5G holographic telepresence. With these
partnerships, DoubleMe will implement "Hologram Cities" in
different countries next year.
DoubleMe Social Media: https://linktr.ee/DoubleMe
TwinWorld Social Media: https://linktr.ee/TwinWorld
Press Kit: http://bit.ly/HologramCity-Press
Contact: Kristen Pimley,
Marketing Content Manager at DoubleMe
Email: kristen@doubleme.me
Media Contact
Kristen Pimley, DoubleMe, Inc.,
+821096118868, kristen@doubleme.me
SOURCE DoubleMe, Inc.