SK Telecom’s ‘Ifland’ offers 66 facial expressions, 800 fashion items, plans to offer more serious collaboration real soon now
South Korea’s top Telco, SK Telecom, has launched a “metaverse” virtual environment and plans to grow it from a fun place to hang online into a forum for more serious collaboration. Known as “Ifland” and aimed at the “MZ generation” – the overlapping cohorts of millennials and Generation Z – the service offers users the chance to visit 18 different types of virtual spaces, among them conference halls, outdoor stages, and rooftops. All can hold 130 participants. Users are promised a choice from “a wide variety of virtual avatars” customisable with “800 different virtual items including costumes, hairstyles, and so on”.
