Realization of Open Metaverse Para-real Cities
HIKKY (CEO: Yasushi Funakoshi, Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter "HIKKY"), a provider of development solutions for VR services including the world's largest* VR event "Virtual Market", has launched the "Para-real World Project" (https://www.hikky.co.jp/service/parareal) to realize "Para-real Cities" that anyone can freely interpret and use freely. HIKKY will create a metaverse of 100 cities worldwide within 5 years.
※Recognized by Guinness World Records™ as "Most Booths at a Virtual Reality Market Event
"Para-real World Project" main vision
HIKKY's "Para-real" is a coined word that combines "parallel world" and "real world", and refers to the parallel existence of the real world and the metaverse. The Para-real World Project will design new cities by reinterpreting real cities in the real world as cities in the metaverse, combining the qualities of reality with expressions unique to the metaverse.
Today, people's values are diversifying, and the way they see a city and the city they want to be differ according to the values that each person has. In the real world, many values are accumulated in a city and form a single image, but a city in the virtual space can accept each of the diversified values and take on many different forms. A city in virtual space can take on any number of forms, accepting each of the diverse values. It can be a city with a landscape that looks like the real world, or it can provide the kind of expressions and experiences that can only be created in the metaverse. The possibilities are endless.
HIKKY has recreated the cities of Shibuya, Akihabara, New York, and Osaka in the metaverse. In the future, we aim to create 100 metaverse cities around the world within 5 years, and will offer them in the "Open Metaverse".
(About the open metaverse proposed by HIKKY: https://virtual-market.prowly.com/161486-virtual-reality-startup-hikky-raises-65-billion-yen-in-series-a-funding-round）
Para-real World No.1 Parareal Shibuya
Para-real world No.2 Para-real Akihabara
Para-real world No.3 Para-real New York
Para-real world No.4 Para-real Osaka
The Para-real World Project aims to realize a society in which people's creativity can be further harnessed through the meta-versification and para-realization of real cities.
What the para-real world can achieve
①Opening a store in a metaverse space
Metaverse stores can be set up in para-real cities. Stores can be designed to resemble real stores, or they can be designed in a way that defies the laws of physics and is unique to the metaverse.
Metaverse stores and customer service
②Event and ad jacking in metaverse cities
Para-real cities can hold a very large event that can jack up an entire city, without being limited by various factors such as equipment installation, time, and management personnel.
Para-real Shibuya ad jacks
③Metaverse Tourist Attractions and Metaverse Travel
Unaffected by physical distance, metaverse allows visitors to visit far-flung tourist destinations without leaving home. The goal is to support the tourism industry, which is vulnerable to the effects of pandemics and earthquakes.
Metaverse allows sightseeing without worrying about time or distance.
The Future of Para-real World
◆Administrative procedures are made possible in the metaverse space
Metaverse solves the challenges of the physical world, such as transportation and queuing. We are working to solve issues for the elderly who need to go through administrative procedures but have difficulty getting around, and social issues such as the risk of infection caused by congestion from waiting in line.
◆Enabling education in metaverse space
Educational institutions in the metaverse space that can be accessed from anywhere can solve issues such as rural disparities in education and make up for lost educational opportunities during a pandemic.
Supporting richer and more convenient living in metaverse spaces
Requests for production and use of para-real cities
We give priority to requests from government agencies, municipalities, tourism councils, and mobile communications providers for the production and use of parareal cities. Please feel free to contact us by selecting "About Parareal World Project" from the inquiry form below.
Inquiry form: https://www.hikky.co.jp/contact
About VR firm HIKKY
-Create a world where the value of creativity is widely recognized-
HIKKY Co., Ltd. is a VR firm that creates an open metaverse where anyone can create and access freely. With notable creators who lead the industry as our members, HIKKY provides VR services such as highly unique Metaverse solutions including Vket Cloud, plan and operate Metaverse events, and provide consulting services that support business entry into the VR/AR field. HIKKY aims to develop the living, economic, and cultural spheres of the virtual world and create a society where all creative people can live more freely and abundantly.
The world’s largest VR event, Virtual Market, hosted by HIKKY has acquired a Guinness World Record™ in 2021. In addition, HIKKY won first place in the marketing category of the “AIXR International VR AWARDS” and the highest award in Japan’s “XR CREATIVE AWARD 2020.”
CEO: Yasushi Funakoshi
Headquarters: 4F, Mitomi Building, 1-20-22 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013, Japan
Established: May 1, 2018
