Congratulations!: pixiv Population Jumps to 1M

イラストコミュニケーションサービス[pixiv(ピクシブ)] via kwout

Japanese illustration SNS "pixiv" got 1M users.

Congratulations!

pixiv is Japanese online community for artists managed　by startup Pixiv Inc headquartered in Tokyo / Sendagaya.

This SNS started a β test on September 10 2007 and then got 10,000 users in one month.

Now, a lot of users to access from China and Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong. (Though there is only Japanese notation)

"Pixiv Festa vol.2" is held by "Design Festa Gallery" on Saturday, July 11.

Pixiv Festa

pixiv appears in the Wikipedia English version

Industrial virtual reality EXPO vol.17

I went to "Industrial virtual reality EXPO vol.17" yesterday.

"Industrial virtual reality EXPO vol.17" is an event of virtual reality of the biggest in Japan.

I want to explain the exhibition contents in detail, but I can't it because I'm poor at English.
Substitute, I upload a lot of photo and videos. Please check it!


Motion capture







Drive simulator
You build a road and the town by oneself and can drive a car.









A house is a fire!


Big fire outbreak!!


Simulate a traffic jam.




I have not a driving license, so I ran over and killed a lot of people.(like a GTA）




A lot of AR











AR dinosaur







The dinosaur moves lively. You can taste the feeling of "Jurassic Park".



Range image sensor



You can operate a game by the movement of the body.
The future game will not need the controller.




You can overcome fear of heights in virtual reality.





But, it seems to be a really scary thing. There were a lot of people who raised big scream.


Industrial virtual reality EXPO
http://www.ivr.jp/english/

Farewell Daletto World

Yesterday, The service end of "Daletto World" was announced.



Daletto World is the 3D VirtualWorld that the Daletto which is a subsidiary of Capcom of a game developer administers.

World design such as the papercraft is a characteristic.













CAPCOM is a famous video game developer.

Wiki page [CAPCOM]

There are lot of Mega-hit games in this company. For example "Mega Man" "Street Fighter series" "Resident Evil series" "Devil May Cry" etcetc......

But, the VirtualWorld success seems to have been difficult.

The service end plans September 29.

I play Daletto World with every effort till then.

Free Poken

Today, "Free Poken" was started at the 18：00 in front of Hachi-ko statue of Shibuya.





"Free Poken" is a Poken version of Free Hug.
We do Poken with the stranger willingly.











Because it was a zombie, my Poken was considerably outstanding.

I was able to do Poken with many people thanks to this.

I make your Poken a skull!

A friend made an order to me.







Customizing Poken to Skull.

How to make is the same before.