SK Telecom, the main cellular community operator in South Korea, has revealed particulars about its modern applied sciences and providers being showcased on the Cell World Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2022.
“We’ve got designed an exhibition that gives guests with an intuitive expertise of the longer term world the place actuality is converged with digital actuality,” stated Park Kyu-hyun, Vice President and Head of Digital Communication at SKT. “We anticipate guests to MWC Barcelona 2022 to satisfy the longer term ICT world by SKT’s various applied sciences and providers.”
Metaverse
SKT’s metaverse platform referred to as Ifland is gaining recognition in Korea. SK Telecom will unveil the worldwide and head-mounted show (HMD) variations of Ifland to permit guests to expertise a extra immersive digital world.
Guests will be capable to expertise Metaverse Gallery, a service the place they’ll collect within the metaverse to take pleasure in docent-guided excursions of digital artwork galleries, in addition to Metaverse Okay-pop Live performance that provides a sensible and immersive volumetric live performance expertise by way of a HMD.
SK Telecom will even introduce Leap Studio, a combined actuality seize studio that creates volumetric video content material, and can invite guests to take pleasure in a volumetric live performance realized by way of combined actuality applied sciences.
AI
The AI Zone will showcase SK Telecom’s self-developed chip Sapeon, which allows the availability of AI providers by enhancing the efficiency of AI knowledge facilities by computation of knowledge. SK Telecom’s chip Sapeon makes use of 20 p.c much less energy than GPU, whereas supporting 1.5 occasions sooner deep studying computation.
SK Telecom’s AI speaker Nugu utilized with Amazon Alexa will probably be on show to point out how each English and Korean primarily based AI providers are being supplied by a single AI speaker.
SK Telecom will show AI cameras constructed with Imaginative and prescient AI in addition to Supernova, an AI-based media upscaling resolution.
5G & Past
Since commercializing its 5G in April 2019, SK Telecom has been increasing its 5G service protection and additional advancing 5G applied sciences to understand hyper-connectivity. The corporate has additionally been specializing in offering sturdy community safety by making use of quantum cryptography applied sciences to various areas in collaboration with IDQ.
SK Telecom will introduce its verification of 5G SA Choice 4 expertise on a 5G community carried out in collaboration with Samsung Electronics. 5G Choice 4 connects each 5G and 4G radios in superior SA mode, enabling operators to make the most of specialised SA features similar to community slicing, and maximize community sources.
SK Telecom will probably be showcasing E2E virtualized and open structure, together with cloud-native core and virtualized RAN, which considerably enhances community effectivity and agility. As well as, SK Telecom will introduce its efforts to advertise Open RAN aimed toward constructing a extra aggressive and vibrant RAN provider ecosystem.
SK Telecom will show how its MEC infrastructure is getting used to make sure seamless provision of top of the range huge 5G providers with super-fast velocity and ultra-low latency by AR Automobile Showroom and VR Recreation Increase Resolution.
Particular Expertise
The Particular Expertise zone will characteristic providers utilized with related intelligence similar to City Air Mobility (UAM).
Guests will expertise a digital journey to a future metropolis throughout the metaverse by way of UAM by a experience on an enormous robotic arm.
UAM is predicted to grow to be a recreation changer by resolving visitors and environmental issues in megacities. SKT is accelerating its progress in the direction of realizing UAM by leveraging its experience in community and mobility platforms, in addition to partnerships with firms from each dwelling and overseas.
SK Telecom will introduce T Universe, a subscription service / platform that gives larger worth in buyer’s day by day lives.
4YFN
In the meantime, SK Telecom will even showcase modern concepts and applied sciences of 11 startups together with its ESG initiatives at 4YFN.