Google endorses South Korea’s Cyworld metaverse application

Cytown, the metaverse as of now being created under South Korean programming engineer Hancom and neighborhood web-based entertainment administration Cyworld Z, as of late gotten the go-ahead from Google to send off a portable application on the Playstore.

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Hancom will send off the Cytown metaverse after it wraps up connecting its framework with Cyworld Z, as indicated by local media reports.
Cyworld Z is a patched up online entertainment stage in South Korea that was hugely popular in the country around the mid-2000s.

The first Cyworld had 32 million clients at a certain point, yet its prominence wilted with the coming of versatile online entertainment administrations like Facebook and Twitter.
While Cyworld Z’s virtual entertainment application sent off back in April, it declared that it will additionally develop its foundation utilizing cryptographic forms of money, the metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
The Cytown metaverse will reproduce Cyworld Z’s intelligent social stage in 3D, with its own economy comprising of Dotori, the digital currency gave by Cyworld.
Cytown is as yet anticipating endorsement from Apple’s App Store.

In the mean time, South Korea is expanding its stake in the metaverse — recently, its science service declared a US$185 million venture to fabricate the country’s metaverse biological system.

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