• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.9
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• pp.1263-1266
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• 2021

The global Covid-19 pandemic has been accelerating the transition to the digital environment that enables providing consistent services without being affected by physical location or various circumstances. The Metaverse might be the representative realization reflecting this trend. In this paper, we introduce the potential core stacks consisting of the Metaverse framework in brief and explain why the open Metaverse framework is an adequate and reasonable design choice to support diverse platforms and multiple instances of the virtual world. Since the development of the open Metaverse framework is indeed in a very early stage, achieving technical completeness in each building block of the open Metaverse is crucial. Considering the expansion and spread of the Metaverse in the future, intensive standardization studies on the open Metaverse framework are exigent and indispensable.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.581-588
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• 2024

Metaverse technology, heralded as the fourth major innovation in computing following personal computers, the internet, and mobile devices, has realized a three-dimensional virtual world where communication with others as well as social, cultural, and economic activities of the real world can take place. While platforms like Zepeto, launched in 2018, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, released in 2020, initially became popular among younger generations, concerns about declining investment and usage rates of the metaverse have become apparent since 2023. This study examines the impact of metaverse users' sense of presence on their immersion and intention to continue using these platforms.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.41-59
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• 2022

Metaverse which was not mentioned until recently due to the failure of 'Second Life' in the past is drawing attention again with the emergence and popularity of metaverse platforms such as 'Roblox' and 'Zeppetto'. On the other hand, there are concerns that past failures will still be repeated. In order to create and sustain the ecosystem surrounding the metaverse, it is important to diagnose and analyze the development process of the metaverse industry and market to define a clear concept that expresses the current metaverse boom. In this paper, the metaverse of the future is defined as "Metaverse 2.0: A virtual world that evolves into a 'Hyper world' through the convergence of hyper-connectivity, hyper-intelligence, and hyper-reality." And six issues that need to be resolved for the activation of the metaverse were analyzed. Based on the contents of this study, it is expected that the metaverse ecosystem will be formed and spread by establishing the roles of the public sector and the private sector.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.189-194
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• 2022

As non-face-to-face activities have become commonplace, online video conferencing platforms have become popular collaboration tools. However, existing video conferencing platforms have a structure in which one side unilaterally exchanges information, potentially increase the fatigue of meeting participants. In this study, we designed a video conferencing platform utilizing virtual reality (VR), a metaverse technology, to enable various interactions. A virtual conferencing space and realistic VR video conferencing content authoring tool support system were designed using Meta's Oculus Quest 2 hardware, the Unity engine, and 3D Max software. With the Photon software development kit, voice recognition was designed to perform automatic text translation with the Watson application programming interface, allowing the online video conferencing participants to communicate smoothly even if using different languages. It is expected that the proposed video conferencing platform will enable conference participants to interact and improve their work efficiency.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.95-102
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• 2021

As social interest in the metaverse increases, various metaverse platforms and services are appearing, and various security issues are emerging accordingly. In particular, since all activities are performed in a variety of virtual spaces, and the metaverse utilizes sensing data using various hardware devices, more information is accumulated than other Internet services, and more damage can occur if information security is not guaranteed. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a metaverse security model that considers the major issues mentioned in previous papers and the necessary evaluation factors for the security functions required in the metaverse platform. As a result of performing the performance evaluation of the proposed model and the existing attribute information collection model, the proposed model can provide security functions such as anonymity and source authentication, which were not provided by the existing models.

• Korean Journal of Artificial Intelligence
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.29-38
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to explore how citizens perceive application of the metaverse platforms for city marketing and investigate factors that affect overall attitude for citizen relationship management in the public sector. In particular, this study investigates the following: i) how factors including perceived city brand value, public service, emotional value, experience, personalization, economic value, social value, and cultural value on overall attitude and ii) how overall attitude affects intention to use of metaverse for the public sector and citizen satisfaction. This study conducted an online survey with the assistance of a well-known research firm. This study applied factor, ANOVA, and regression analysis to test hypotheses. The results found that effects of perceived city brand value, emotional value, information, economic value, social value, and cultural value on overall attitude toward metaverse application for the public sector showed significance. The results provide managerial and policy implications for the public sector on how to apply metaverse to provide public services and enhance engagement with citizens. The results also provide implications which aspects should be considered to enhance citizen relationship management and to build the better city brand value by applying metaverse.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.307-345
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• 2022

Due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, metaverse has begun to receive attention as a means of providing future services. The importance of metaverse was further emphasized and metaverse platforms are being used by various institutions. Against this background, cases of using the metaverse platform in libraries are increasing. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate domestic and foreign library cases using the metaverse platform and analyze each platform's characteristics and content types according to the metaverse platform's method. Based on the findings, the implication of the current study suggests the future direction of using the metaverse platform in the library.

• The Korean Fashion and Textile Research Journal
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.72-81
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• 2023

As changes in social and economic paradigms are accelerating, and non-contact has become the new normal due to the COVID-19 pandemic, metaverse services that build societies in online activities and virtual reality are spreading rapidly. This study analyzes the perception and trend of metaverse fashion using big data. TEXTOM was used to extract metaverse and fashion-related words from Naver and Google and analyze their frequency and importance. Additionally, structural equivalence analysis based on the derived main words was conducted to identify the perception and trend of metaverse fashion. The following results were obtained: First, term frequency(TF) analysis revealed the most frequently appearing words were "metaverse," "fashion," "virtual," "brand," "platform," "digital," "world," "Zepeto," "company," and "game." After analyzing TF-inverse document frequency(TF-IDF), "virtual" was the most important, followed by "brand," "platform," "Zepeto," "digital," "world," "industry," "game," "fashion show," and "industry." "Metaverse" and "fashion" were found to have a high TF but low TF-IDF. Further, words such as "virtual," "brand," "platform," "Zepeto," and "digital" had a higher TF-IDF ranking than TF, indicating that they had high importance in the text. Second, convergence of iterated correlations analysis using UNICET revealed four clusters, classified as "virtual world," "metaverse distribution platform," "fashion contents technology investment," and "metaverse fashion week." Fashion brands are hosting virtual fashion shows and stores on metaverse platforms where the virtual and real worlds coexist, and investment in developing metaverse-related technologies is under way.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.787-800
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• 2023

This paper is a study aimed at facilitating a comprehensive understanding of the music metaverse platform that will emerge in the era of Web 3.0 and exploring productive strategies for its construction. We examine the significance of the metaverse music platform from various perspectives and investigate the developmental process of digital music platforms from Web 1.0 to 3.0. Subsequently, assuming the emergence of metaverse platforms as a transition to Web 3.0, we align this transition with technological(VR technology, wearable devices, generative AI), cultural(digital avatars, fandom), and economic(NFT) discussions related to Web 3.0. These discussions are integrated with the developmental strategies of the metaverse music platform. Through this study, we hope to enhance the understanding of the metaverse music platform and provide insights into potential construction strategies.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.201-208
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• 2022

Customized service is a vital and mandatory element for apps in improving their technical performance and app customer analysis. While apps require users' consent for their data extraction and usage, many of the terms and agreement forms are written intricately, making it harder for users to fully understand the whole concept of users' data collection for customized services. Ever since the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, personal data privacy has been re-examined, forcing many app companies to reinforce a reliable solution to data privacy issues. However, there has not been a secured solution, which worries many people about the future advanced issues when metaverse platforms are actively used in daily apps. The research aims to collect the reactions and behaviors of everyday app users who utilize apps with customized services to understand the nature of privacy data issues and the users' opinions about the future implementation of metaverse platforms. The method of the research was an online questionnaire that targeted university students. The study revealed many fearful and anxious reactions about personal data and further metaverse issues where most app users were uneducated about how current apps collect and utilize users' private data.