"Social Network" preview

On January 9, I went to see "Social Network" preview. It will be in theaters in the Japan on January15.

Japanese ver. poster image.
It's written  in this way...

Genius

Betrayer

Dangerous guy

Billionaire

Japanese version of "The facebook Effect"were sold at a 10% off price in the place.

Facebook How to book is released on February 2, too.

Before the screening, a talk show of Zynga Japan GM Shintaro Yamada was held. He did the Japanese subtitles supervision of this movie.
Yamada-san said, "Facebook is more easily than mixi usable SNS. Why was Facebook able to become the best SNS in the world in a lot of SNS? It's because it took in other interesting service immediately. When Twitter began to become popular, Facebook cooperated immediately. However, mixi was delayed."

The movie was very exciting and interesting! Everyone seemed to have enjoyed it though there were some elderly persons who would not know Facebook in the participant. Especially, Bill Gates's scene was laugh out loud!

I wish this movie becomes the topic in Japan.

Hamburger steak, Voice actress and AR

Japan's Denny's is executing the campaign for the hamburger steak using AR and popular voice actress Aya Hirano.

Aya Hirano is very popular voice actress(seiyū) and J-Pop singer. She is known by the voice of Haruhi Suzumiya from "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya".

Denny 'Management company SEVEN & i Food Systems released two AR application for this campaigns.

D Gold AR and GAME
http://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/d-gold-ar-game/id406649186?mt=8

D Silver AR and GAME
http://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/id407203606?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
*There are not only the iPhone application but also the Android application

 When you read a menu, you may find the AR marker there.

Then, let's use "D Silver AR and GAME".

 Start screen of application

Let's start the camera.

CG animation of Aya Hirano appears when you photograph an AR marker with the smartphone's camera.

 Afterwards, the screen changes into the menu introduction.

While you watch AR contents in this way, the hamburger steak food which did order arrives. (I forgot to take the hamburger steak!)

And you get such an AR card when you pay the bill.

Then, let's use "D Gold AR and GAME".

Then, Aya Hirano's different version of CG animation appears. She moves and talks!


After this, the application changes to the serial code input screen.

When you input the serial code described in the AR card...

You can watch a special movie of Aya Hirano. The special movie has four patterns in all, but the AR card is distributed at random. If you want to watch all movies, it's necessary to go to Denny's a lot, and collect cards.

The distribution of the cards are carried out until January 23. And, the limit of contents is January 31. Hurry up!

Tsukuba University's Second Life Machinima

It's cool works!



Japan's Tsukuba University Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Laboratory shoots a PV with 3D virtual world Second Life.
Akira Yamamoto shoot a this works(He is a movie director at real life).

Akira Yamamoto's website
http://playgroundofsecretbase.blogspot.com/

This PV is used for student invitation and a demonstration of Laboratory.

A lot of Tablet in Comic Market

I went to world's largest self-published comic book fair "comic market(Comiket)" at the end of last year.

What comic market ? via Wikipedia

This event is a sacred place of the otaku. And it's the place that can know the most tip of the Japanese contents industry.

I was able to watch the "change" that was here this time. It is that a lot of creators were using the tablet. iPad, Kindle, galaxy Tab......(and a little PSP, too). There were a lot of people who were using iPad.

In last summer, there were a few people who used tablet. Main users were the people who wrote a novel as the people who made a game. But, I was able to watch tablet with every genre this time. There was even Cosplayer which showed a collection of own Cosplay photographs on iPad.

The e-books correspondence of the publisher in Japan is much later than foreign countries. But Japanese creators begin to make e-books steadily.

JUMP FESTA

On December 19, I went to JUMP FESTA.

JUMP FESTA is Japanese exposition event, all about anime comic, game, movie and music, sponsored by Shueisha. There are various exhibition booths about comic magazine brand "JUMP".

via Wikipedia

There was a lot of exhibition such as e-Books, Social game, Social apps for iPhone/Android, 3D film and AR about new technology this year.

TECMO KOEI HOLDINGS CO., LTD.'s new social game of dating sim for women.


Japanese mobile carrier KDDI collaborated with popular comics "ONE PIECE"

KDDI exhibited AR contents of ONE PIECE which used new Android smartphone "IS03". It used a palm as an AR marker. Characters of ONE PIECE appeared there when I shaded a palm with a camera of IS03 which started application. Because this AR contents are JUMP FESTA-limited, so we can't usually watch this. I wish we can watch this again.

KDDI × ONE PIECE goods