10 domestic companies signed a basic agreement to create the “Japan Metaverse economic zone” | coindesk JAPAN | coin desk Japan

JCB, Mizuho Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Resona Holdings, Sompo Japan Insurance, Toppan Printing, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Corporation, and TBT Lab will join the “Japan Metaverse Economic Zone” on February 27. announced that it has signed a basic agreement to create

The Japan Metaverse economic zone is said to represent an ecosystem formed by interoperability between various metaverses using the open metaverse platform “Ryugukoku (provisional name)” developed by JP GAMES of the TBT Lab Group. “Ryugu Koku (Tentative)” is a metaverse platform that incorporates the elements of a slow online different world RPG with a unique fantasy world view.

This basic agreement is based on the concept of “updating Japan with the power of games” by game creator Hajime Tabata.

Each company that has signed a basic agreement will integrate their respective technologies and services, such as gamification, FinTech, and ICT, to build an open metaverse platform for enterprises, “Ryugu Koku (provisional).” As a new social infrastructure, it will realize corporate DX such as information transmission, marketing, and work style reform of domestic companies and consumer EX (experience transformation).

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