Developing Songjeong Metaverse Surfing Village: Development of Metaverse-based Platform Specialized for Marine Tourism

This study aims to introduce and explain how to develop a metaverse based immersive and experiential tourist contents. The project plans to introduce long-term and highly scalable new concept platform by developing virtual metaverse surfing village centered on Song-Jeong beach which is popular surfing destination in South Korea. The project consists of the following 5 tasks: The first Task is to develop Metaverse-based hyper-immersive interactive content which include implementation of surfing village virtualization by identifying an analyzing the components through spatial analysis. Second Task is developing VR/AR based experiential content. In this task, AI based service contents that can provide optimized surfing posture and correction service and virtual surfing experience contents will be developed. The third task is developing contents that provide integrated information linked to local tourism and leisure infrastructure. To do that AI based smart tourism service will be developed. The fourth task is to develop business model for interactive metaverse platform. Lastly, the fifth task is demonstration stage of the platform. This task includes promotion of demonstration platform, operating expert advisory group, and establishment of longterm expansion plan.