Phuket promoted as a ‘Metaverse City’

Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn was the featured expert at an occasion facilitated at Boat Lagoon Resort zeroed in on “Transforming Thai tourism using technology” and making Thailand’s first Metaverse City in Phuket.

Pichet Panapong, Deputy Governor of Phuket, opened the occasion, portraying the further the travel industry potential and desires of Phuket as a main destination.

He was then joined in front of an audience by Wichai Thongtang, Chairman of Bitkub World Tech Co. Ltd, and Mr. Jirayut Sub Sri Sopha, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bitkub Capital Group Holdings Co, Ltd.

Further conversations including authorities and industry specialists based on advancing the travel industry and wellbeing with computerized innovation and how by applying innovation devices of things to come, for example, artifical insight (AI), expanded reality (AR) and augmented reality (VR), Phuket can turn into an innovator in the field.

Phuket has been picked as the pilot task to turn into the country’s first Metaverse City due to its standing as a main the travel industry pronvince, regularly alluded to as the “Pearl of the Andaman”.

According to the xrtoday site, “The notion of the metaverse – recently propelled into the mainstream by Facebook’s rebranding as Meta – will transform how we inhabit the world around us… the metaverse can be defined as a simulated digital environment that uses augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and blockchain, along with concepts from social media, to create spaces for rich user interaction mimicking the real world.”