Illuni announced that its ‘Story Self’ has been pre-loaded on Genie TV through a recent partnership agreement with KT.
Iluni is an incubator company of the Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center and a technology-based startup founded within the research lab of Pohang University of Science and Technology. We specialize in research and development of AI and convergence reality technologies. In recognition of its excellent technology, it continues to collaborate with large corporations by winning awards in the ‘2022 KT Genie TV Service Contest’ and the ‘2022 Big-Star Solver Platform 4th Industry (Metaverse, Artificial Intelligence) Category’.
Subsequently, it was selected for the ‘2022 IITP Media Palette Market Value Creation Support Project (Frontier Type)’ and ‘2022 TIPS’ programs, and is developing artificial intelligence and convergence reality technology.
Through this partnership and contract, Illuni will supply ‘Story Self’, a convergence reality realistic fairy tale service, to KT Genie TV. Currently, it is being installed sequentially for each model of KT Genie TV, and it is scheduled to be expanded after installation is completed in February 2023.
‘Story Self’ is an interactive, convergence reality, realistic fairy tale service that allows the whole family to become the main characters in a fairy tale with a single photo. Through AI technology, you can create your own fairy tale content using your child’s photo, voice, text, and drawings. The goal is to provide Genie TV’s customers with the value of creating family fairy tales and watching them together on TV.
The service was discovered by winning an award at the ‘2022 KT Genie TV Service Contest’ co-hosted by KT and the Incheon Creative Economy Innovation Center. Afterwards, development was completed with commercialization support through the ‘2022 K-Champ Collaboration’ program of KT and the Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center.
Park Byeong-hwa, CEO of Illuni, said, “KT Genie TV is Korea’s leading IPTV with over 9 million subscribers.” He added, “We are providing the value of informing KT Genie TV’s customers about Story Self, making the dreams of fairy tale characters come true, and creating family fairy tales. “We will grow together with Genie TV,” he said.
Meanwhile, the ‘KT Genie TV Service Contest’ and ‘K-Champ Collaboration’ programs are KT’s startup collaboration programs. Selected companies will be supported with collaboration opportunities with KT, service development costs, and marketing promotions.
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