**fxgear to release live-action-based digital idol ‘Narang’ on ‘ZEPETO’**
FX Gear, a domestic CG software and AR/VR/XR company, announced that it will unveil the world’s first live-action-based digital idol service ‘NARANG’ on ‘ZEPETO’, a global metaverse platform.
Digital idol ‘Narang’, which is scheduled to be launched in April, is a content that enables fans to communicate with stars and experience various experiences in the metaverse space by realizing K-pop stars as digital humans. It provides an experience that moves the gaze or makes eye contact according to the user’s movement, and reacts in real time according to the movement.
With the launch of the app, fxgear simultaneously releases experience contents on the ZEPETO world map and introduces the digital idol service ‘Narang’. The first digital idol is Rowooon from SF9, who has been drawing attention as a K-pop star by showing prominence in dramas and entertainment shows. A unique fan meeting will be held with Rowooon, who is embodied as a digital human.
After completing the mission in the virtual space, you can go to the fan meeting space to meet, greet and take a commemorative photo with Rowooon, a digital idol in real life. Unlike idols that exist as existing characters, you can meet digital idols of live-action characters, so you can experience the same as if you went to a real fan meeting place.
Choi Kwang-jin, CEO of fxgear, said, “As the industry’s first live-action-based digital human was introduced to ZEPETO, the reaction from fans is already hot. It is an advantage to be able to meet my idol, which is difficult to see in reality, anytime and anywhere in the virtual world.â?
Meanwhile, ZEPETO is Asia’s largest metaverse platform where various social, economic, and cultural activities take place. As of February 2022, the cumulative number of global subscribers exceeded 290 million, and the proportion of teenage users accounted for more than 80%. have. Naver Jet, the operator of ‘ZEPETO’, is concentrating on creating a dynamic and safe ecosystem and community so that more users can directly create and experience various contents.
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