i-City’s RM10 Million Metaverse Theme Park Enhancement

i-City’s Head of Leisure Tang Soke Cheng with China Mobile International (CMIM) Director of Enterprise, Jackie Chen Jiang Long

i-City today announced a RM10 million digital transformation plan to enhance its theme park with Metaverse experience.

The theme park enhancement project will be carried out in collaboration with China Mobile International (CMIM) to entwine i-City’s City of Digital Lights with an immersive 3D Metaverse experience.


China Mobile International (CMIM) is currently building the technology platform for the infusion of Metaverse in i-City theme park and the new experience will be unveiled beginning with the 2023 New Year Countdown and the Metaverse experience is expected to draw 10 million visits to the Theme Park in 2023, according to i-City’s Head of Leisure Tang Soke Cheng.

“Adopting new technologies such as the Metaverse technology has always been part of i-City’s strongest DNA. In 2009, when LED technology was in its infancy, we introduced LED technology into the theme park’s digital landscape. As a result, we were acclaimed by CNN Travel as the 21st brightest and most colourful place in the world, two notches above New York Times Square in the United States of America,” Tang said.

“With the Metaverse being the latest buzzword in the edutainment and gaming world, we would like to be the first to adopt such new technology in Malaysia. As such we are aiming for the enhancement works to be completed in time for the 2023 New Year countdown so that visitors can enjoy digital lightscapes with interactive virtual reality as they count down to the new year,” Tang said.

“In keeping up to our reputation as Malaysia No. 1 Technology City, we would be extending the Metaverse experience to SnoWalk which is currently a snowfall and snowplay attraction in Malaysia. We are also exploring extending a new interactive digital attraction showcasing the “Aurora” in SnoWalk,” Tang said, adding that i-City plans to spend RM10mil for this expansion and aims to attract 10 million visitors into i-City with the implementation of Metaverse.

“Metaverse requires 3D modalities to be transmitted digitally. This can be in the form of avatars and structures among others. The more life-like the 3D model is, the more details it will require and the more data it will consume. As such, the implementation of 5G together with hyperscale cloud computing infrastructure which i-City is currently building will be instrumental to the success of this project,” said Jackie Chen Kiang Long, director of enterprise of China Mobile International.


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