S. Korea releases Minecraft-based metaverse game to promote agricultural policies

[Courtesy of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs]

SEOUL — South Korea’s agriculture ministry has launched metaverse content material primarily based on a worldwide standard “Minecraft” game. The metaverse-based game gives numerous experiences via digital excursions of agriculture museums, good farms and authorities services.

Minecraft, which has some 126 million month-to-month customers as of 2020, is an open-world exploring game for PC and consoles. More than 200 million copies had been offered worldwide. In May 2020, South Korean President Moon Jae-in invited elementary faculty college students to the digital model of the presidential workplace to have a good time Children’s Day via Minecraft. Students had been in a position to go searching the primary constructing with the president within the digital world.

The metaverse is a simulated digital world platform the place customers can interact in numerous actions utilizing avatars with none bodily restrictions. It could be accessed via a smartphone, PC, or a digital actuality headset. The metaverse platform is broadly utilized in South Korea’s schooling sectors so college students can acquire first-hand experiences equivalent to exploring a digital science exhibition corridor via Google’s Chrome browser.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs stated in an announcement on November 15 {that a} metaverse-based game titled “Wook-Craft” was launched to provide a digital tour of South Korea’s agricultural services together with the workplace of the agriculture ministry, good farms and agriculture museums. A wise farm refers to an automatic indoor farm that may robotically analyze the temperature, humidity and quantity of daylight via the Internet of Things (IoT) expertise. Because it’s doable to remotely handle farms via cellular units, farmers do not want to fear about climate circumstances.

“We will speed up using the metaverse platform to promote the worth of agriculture to the millennial and Z generations,” the agriculture ministry’s spokesman Kim Ki-hoon was quoted as saying. To acquire extra customers, the agriculture ministry will even maintain particular giveaway occasions and permit customers to create their very own agricultural house within the digital world.