Cool Second Life machinima "The story that disappeared on the earth."

I want to introduce cool Second Life machinima "The story that disappeared on the earth.".  This work was shot in second life by   movie director Akira Yamamoto. Famous Second life musician Chouchou dealt with BGM.



And, This work won the highest award in a visual art section of competition "Society for art &　science competition vol.8" of the movie works.

In commemoration of this, the premium screening event and talk show were held in Second Life from 23:00 of Wednesday, May 5. Users arrived two hours before the event start and became full at the time of the event start on that day. In addition, this screening event was streamed in Ustream and more than 200 people saw it .

Because the event video is uploaded in YouTube, please check it!!

LAWSON in AmebaPigg

LAWSON is one of the Japanese representative convenience stores. Now, promotion in Japanese virtual world AmebaPigg.

http://prom.ameba.jp/100426_lawson/



A store same as reality! There are virtual goods vending machine and NPC of mascot character "Ponta" at the storefront.





Ponta is Kawaii!(Cute!) Not only the design but also the motion is very cute!



We can buy a fashion items and food items with the vending machine. Food items(Roll cake and Japanese-style fried chicken) are reproduced items sold in the reality world. We can revitalize a special motion when we feed an avatar these.



I wanted to eat a genuine hood when I watched virtual food :)

Japanese night life Virtual world "Xacariva"

On April 15, Japanese startup plus one company launched "Japanese night life virtual world" Xacariva.



https://xacariva.jp/

Xacariva is the virtual world that reflected "the night of adult" in all such as a world view, virtual item and avatar action.





Start spot is busy streets(like a Kabuki-cho, Tokyo). There are various shops there.




At first let's buy clothes! It's fashion store "B&G" here.




Next, buy hair and make-up items in beauty salon.




Next, go to the beauty clinic too. Do you make cosmetic surgery?


I whitened a color of the skin.


There is the tanning salon too. But not necessary for me.


It's kyabakura "papillon" here. kyabakura is Japanese hostess clubs. It's the coined word that composed kyabar (cabaret) and kurabu (club). Hostesses are known as kyabajō.

We can become kyabajō here. But, unfortunately the visitor did not come...
Secret chat is possible only with two people when sit down on a chair.

There was host club else, but there was not a host and was not able to enter. (Too late-night what logged in!)

It's only adult olders than 20 years old that can log in to this virtual world. We can purchase the virtual currency for a credit card and electronic money.

This recently opened, and there are few contents, but a design is excellent. There was not the virtual world of the specific motif in Japan so far (Why?).　I expect it in this Xacariva.

Good-bye, Edo-Castle in Second life

There is Japanese community called "EDO" in second life ("EDO" is a old name of Tokyo).



This community reproduces scenery of EDO (Tokyo) before Japan becomes the modern nation.

The most splendid scenery is Edo Castle.



Now, Edo-Castle becomes the palace of Japanese emperor. It's a very big building, but bigger than now in old days. Edo-Castle encountered the damage of the large-scale fire in old days.
This community examined ancient documents and completely reproduced Edo-Castle before the fire. It's a very splendid works! !



Because it was a splendid work, used as material by a history TV program.




In addition, a lot of not only the Japanese user but also overseas users visited here, too. And a Japanese popular song singer and a rock band held a virtual show here.



But, unfortunately this community is closed by April 30. what sad!

Please visit this community. And please see the sights a lot, take a lot of photo & video.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/EDO 01/171/125/69

Let's date with a virtual girl friend in the reality world!

Konami's dating sim video game "Loveplus" is popular among social phenomena indeed in Japan so that there was the man who married girl friend in the game.

ラブプラス




via Kotaku

But, she doesn't come out outside DS even if he loves her no matter how much.

It's enabled by power of iPhone and AR!

via THE SECOND TIMES

Konami released Loveplus iPhone app ver. "Loveplusi".


LoveplusiM（愛花）
http://www.konami.jp/products/touch_loveplus_im/index.html

LoveplusiR（凜子）
http://www.konami.jp/products/touch_loveplus_ir/index.html

LoveplusiN（寧々）
http://www.konami.jp/products/touch_loveplus_in/index.html

Loveplusi resolution improves than Loveplus, so you can meet a more beautiful girl friend. But the most attractive function is "AR Camera". You can download AR marker in a Konami's Web site and shooting a souvenir photo with her.

via GameSpot Japan


Reality or non-reality is not an important problem. The most important problem is "fun or not fun" and "Kawaii or not Kawaii" ("Kawaii" means Cute and Lovely in Japanese).