FUNiX Online Education has signed a partnership agreement with World@Meta – a Singaporean technology company – to launch a Metaverse project which will build a virtual school in the Metaverse, providing students with strong relational and immersive experience.

The project aims to create a complete virtual, 3D school, enabling students to interact with each other, with mentors and virtual objects in an immersive environment. “We want to provide users with a variety of engaging and diverse experiences in the virtual space, to foster bonds better than even in real-life classes. There are many educational institutions interested in this technology, but their determination for real-life application is not as strong as FUNiX, a fully online school,” CEO World@Meta Luke Liu said.

He added: “This is a key project of our company, the first step to lay a foundation in Viet Nam, then expand to the Southeast Asian market, in order to build a "virtual universe" in different sectors in the coming years.”

As an online school, FUNiX is always a pioneer in applying new technologies. Building a Metaverse school is expected to promote cross-platform creativity for FUNiX students, according to CEO FUNiX Le Minh Duc.

Virtual reality technology has been applied by a number of universities around the world to improve the efficiency and quality of training, but in Viet Nam, there has not been any project intended for long-term use.

Metaverse offers a virtual world where users can move, chat, and interact with each other through digital avatars, completely breaking geographical barriers.

Representing DTS Group, an investor of World@Meta and a partner of FUNiX, Chairman Truong Gia Bao expressed belief that the project would actualise an online school’s dream by building a virtual campus for FUNiX’s over 20,000 students. In the future, FUNiX will be able to move to Metaverse all current learning activities, such as: Welcome Ceremony, Commencement Ceremony, Job Fair.

Metaverse is a concept of a virtual universe built based on virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) technology, multi-dimensional graphics, AI, algorithm system, software and hardware to create a special social platform. Metaverse allows users to take advantage of an Internet connection and interact in the virtual world in the most realistic way. — VNS