Japanese pro-baseball team treats Taiwanese tourists with smart glasses

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (北海道日本ハムファイターズ) are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Sapporo, Hokkaidō. They performed the trial of the new service using the smart glasses to Taiwanese tourists. Why Taiwanese? Because Hokkaido is the Japanese northernmost local government and a lot of snow, and Taiwanese player Ya'ng Da'i-Ka-ng(陽岱鋼) is registered at Nippon-Ham Fighters. Therefore many Taiwanese tourists always visit Hokkaido. However, foreign tourists are inconvenient because a baseball stadium announcement and player notation are only Japanese. Then, Nippon-Ham Fighters supported Taiwanese with smart glasses.

 Smart glass MOVERIO of Epson was used for this trial.

The main support technique is AR. The data, profiles of players and score were displayed by Taiwanese to a screen. Operators updated the score in real time.

In addition, the commentary was translated into Taiwanese by an interpreter operator, too.

Tourists seemed to enjoy it very well. An advantage of the smart glass is that the user's both hands become free. This is the important point in watching sports.
A more detailed video is here.

Japanese mobile game superstar Nameko multiplies in autumn Taiwan

Japanese mushroom character Nameko is popular in Taiwan, and they perform Taiwan's original events and campaigns now. This month, two Nameko events are held in Taipei.

At first, Nameko has a own shop at the basement mall "Tokyo character street" of Tokyo Station, and this mall goes on a trip to department store Dayeh Takashimaya in Taipei City from October 9.

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[Photo Report] Nameko shop preview in Basement of Tokyo Station

Of course the Nameko shop opens a store there, and sell various limited goods selling in Tokyo there. The shop prepares for the area that can take photos with Nameko.

Nameko of Tokyo Station limitation goods does the cos-play of the station employee.

The second, they cooperate with Italian restaurant "Forno Pizzeria No. 1" in Taipei.

Why this season? because it is the season when mushrooms are delicious now. In this tie-up, the restaurant provides various menus using mushrooms.

When customers post photos of menus on the Facebook page of this restaurant, customers can get discount tickets of wine and the pizza.

Furthermore, tote bag of Nameko of the original design is presented to customers who reserved the seats. But it's limited to 100. They perform this tie-up until December, but may be sold out before it.

It is very unusual for Japanese mobile game  character to perform such a tie-up with overseas shops. Particularly, the chef-style Nameko in the Italian restaurant is an original illustration drawn for this tie-up. I am envious of Taiwanese Nameko fans! :)

The detailed information of Taiwanese is here
http://namepara.com/tw/info/news/4113.html

Is this a toy robot? No, this is a cell-phone robot

What a pretty robot! If children get this, they will be surely pleased. However, this is not a toy. This is the cell-phone which Japanese consumer electronics company Sharp announced today.

His name is RoBoHoN. He is the next-generation robot type cell-phone which Sharp and roboticist Tomotaka Takahashi developed jointly, and released in early 2016. He is the small humanoid robot that bipedalism is possible, the height is 19.5cm and the weight is 390g. The user puts him in a pocket of the clothing or a bag, and can carry him to outdoors. In addition, he supports LTE/3G and has the basic function of the cell-phone such as voice call, e-mail, camera and liquid crystalline touch panel. Furthermore, he has a focus free small projector, and can project photos, videos and maps on a wall or a desk. The users can easily operate these functions by direct talk with RoBoHoN.

GungHo and Nintendo hold the international championship of Puzzle &Dragons

GungHo released a game for 3DS which combined their popular mobile game Puzzle &Dragons with Super Mario "PUZZLE & DRAGONS SUPER MARIO BROS. EDITION" in April, and brought it into the Western market afterwards. Next is its championship! They started the application acceptance of the overseas qualifier meet of international championship of Puzzle &Dragons in United States and Germany.

qualifier meet is held in Japan, United States, Germany, and Korea. Of these, the United States is a qualifier place of North America, and Germany is a qualifier place of Europe. Players who won each qualifier meet can play in the final held at Chiba, Makuhari Messe on January 31, 2016. Because it is held in Japanese new huge game event Game Party Japan 2016, e- sports players may enjoy more.

GngHo broadcasts TVCM of Puzzle & Dragons in the U.S.

TVCM is still effective in advertising of mobile games in Japan. GungHo brought this technique into the United States. They broadcast TVCM of their popular mobile game Puzzle & Dragons in the United States. The main actor is Colton Haynes!


Puzzle & Dragons passes 50 million downloading now, but unfortunately the popularity in the market except Japan is not sweet. The number of the downloading in the North America is only 7 million, but on the other hand, it is 38 million downloading in Japan. I do not need to say about the European market :P They aim at getting North American players more by this TVCM.