(From left) Choi Jaegil, CEO of Ucanstar, Hwang Gihyun, Director of LINC 3.0 at Dongseo University, and Hwang Daesil, CEO of Scone Entertainment, are signing an industry-academic cooperation agreement.
[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] Dongseo University LINC 3.0 Project Group, Sconex Entertainment, and Ucanstar recently signed a business agreement to foster professional talent leading the VR (Virtual Reality) industry.
Through the agreement, each institution will actively cooperate in ▶planning joint industry-academia cooperation projects for mutual development ▶joint development of educational programs for training professionals in the game industry ▶joint efforts regarding field training and job education ▶utilization and exchange of human and material resources ▶and other related projects recognized as necessary by both parties.
Dongseo University's IFS 3.0 Corporate Track is a corporate-participation industry-academia education program that organizes and operates curricula jointly with companies to train talent tailored to corporate demands, conducting employment-linked field training and project classes.
Hwang Gi-hyun, head of Dongseo University LINC 3.0 Project Group, said, “With this industry-academia cooperation, we will strengthen organic connections with industries and strive to nurture talent in the XR content field,” adding, “We plan to enter practical industry-academia exchanges through expanding infrastructure for industry-academia education and developing company-participation curricula.”
Sconex Entertainment is a domestic VR company listed on KOSDAQ in 2022 and uniquely possesses the ‘Large-scale XR Walking System’ in Korea, which allows many people to participate in VR content simultaneously.
The ‘Large-scale XR Walking System’ was established as a domestic standard in 2020 and has been adopted as an international standard draft by the International Standardization Organization (IEEE), with international standardization work currently underway.
Ucanstar is a Busan-based VR company operating numerous games, projects, and services.
Ucanstar’s ‘The Door’ won the Korea Creative Content Agency’s Excellent Game of the Month award in Q4 2018 and is exhibited and operated at various VR experience centers such as Lotte World VR SPACE and VR SQUARE.
Various VR game contents produced by Ucanstar have been exported to the United States, Japan, China, and other countries.
Dongseo University LINC 3.0 Project Group XR Content ICC operates various programs to provide students with education closely linked to the industry to nurture convergent talents specialized in XR content. It also operates and supports joint industry-academia technology development in the new immersive content industry sector.
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