In April 2023, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. and JP UNIVERSE Co. The two companies will cooperate to promote the spread of industrial metaverse, including the metaverse platform " RYUGUKOKU " announced in February 2023.
Toppan Printing and JP UNIVERSE sign capital and business alliance agreement
In April 2023, Toppan Printing and JP UNIVERSE signed a capital and business alliance agreement. The centerpiece of this alliance is "Metaverse. Toppan Printing's MiraVerse, a metaverse service platform for business, and JP UNIVERSE's RYUGUKOKU, a metaverse platform with a fantasy worldview and game elements, will be interoperable.
JP UNIVERSE is a metaverse studio founded by Hata Tabata, director of "Final Fantasy XV. The company is a subsidiary of TBT Lab, with which Toppan Printing signed a basic agreement in February 2023, and is building and operating "RYUGUKOKU" with the aim of creating a Japan Metaverse economic zone.
Purpose of the alliance
In recent years, the Internet has shifted from being a database and tool for consumers to a world of experiences. In particular, demand for the use of digital space as a DX tool is increasing among companies and government agencies.
In addition, Toppan Printing's "MiraVerse" and JP UNIVERSE's "RYUGUKOKU" are connected to develop a " Metaverse Interoperability Platform " that enables mutual traffic. In the future, the objective is to contribute to the realization of affluent and sustainable lifestyles by conducting demonstration experiments on the industrial metaverse to solve social issues such as the falling birthrate, aging population, and post-corona, and providing feedback to companies and government agencies.
Details of the partnership
Interoperation between MiraVerse and RYUGUKOKU
Starting with this capital and business alliance agreement, Toppan Printing's MiraVerse and JP UNIVERSE's RYUGUKOKU will be mutually operated. As a new social infrastructure, this will play a role in supporting DX in the industrial world, such as information dissemination and marketing by Japanese companies.
Incorporating gamification elements into MiraVerse
Toppan Printing will provide JP UNIVERSE's PEGASUS WORLD KIT, a tool for building a metaverse space, to "MiraVerse," and will consider incorporating gamification elements. This is expected to expand the business domain of "MiraVerse.
Future Prospects
PR TIMESToppan Printing and JP UNIVERSE aim to construct a virtual smart city on a high-precision metaverse by utilizing the metaverse technologies of both companies, not only the industrial metaverse. By seamlessly linking the virtual smart city with the real space, various demonstrations conducted in the metaverse will be fed back to the real space, providing highly convenient services such as improved services for residents, new attractions for visitors to the city, and more efficient administrative operations, as well as the experience value of self-realization and self-expression within the digital space. We will provide highly convenient services that improve services to residents, create new attractions for visitors to the city, and streamline administrative operations, as well as value-added experiences that enable people to challenge self-realization and self-expression in digital space.