Hajime Tabata, director of Final Fantasy 15 and former Square Enix employee, is working on a metaverse project named Ryugukoku.
The project has been launched in response to the"rapidly growing demand for DX [digital transformation] utilising the virtual domain among enterprises and government agencies".Essentially, Ryugukoku is a metaverse structure for smaller metaverse platforms controlled by businesses to collaborate on information sharing, marketing, and more.
Each metaverse service takes the form of a moving castle roaming around a virtual world - in the artwork it takes the form of a Xenoblade-esque headless angel. Users will"engage in an RPG-like experience as they travel through different realms and encounter a variety of contents and services". Users will have an"auto learning avatar" with which to explore the metaverse, with Ryugukoku learning avatar behaviour for personalised recommendations. The Pegasus World Kit tool will be used to construct an"experience-orientated system", and a"multi magic passport" will work as an authentication certificate for users, for instance when purchasing NFTs.