SONY's new AR system "SmartAR" photo report

Sony released markerless new AR system "SmartAR".






To this release, Sony held an experience event of SmartAR at Ginza Sony Building. Please enjoy a photoreport.



At cafe...










At boutique...




At Sony shop...






Outdoor advertisement




Door






The history of the AR study of Sony

Galapagos, ah...Galapagos, Galapagos

Today, I watched Japanese e-book tablet "Galapagos" which a friend had.



It's a big! heavy! and strange size!

It had a long vertical size. I have not watched the ratio of such a screen size. I felt sense of incongruity very much. Golden ratio is important to the size of the gadget.


On the other hand, iPad2



Light! thin! and the color of the screen is beautiful!


....................Japan is over! \(^o^)/

Drag queen and Tohoku big earthquake

On March 11, a gay man used Japanese video sharing site NICO NICO DOUGA. He did live streaming make-up of drag queen in NICONICO DOUGA.

About NICONICO DOUGA:See also
English Guide For Nico Nico Douga, Part 1: How To Register
English Guide For Nico Nico Douga, Part 2: How To Use

The tragedy came suddenly. An earthquake of magnitude 9.0 attacked Japan as soon as he showed a face of finished drag queen. You can watch the terror of the earthquake from log.



Fortunately, he was safe. After an earthquake stopped, he called, "were everybody safe?" immediately.

Now. we can watch a lot of video which took a moment of earthquake on video sharing site. However, this is a very rare case.

Funny DIY: iPad2 cover of Japanese bath tub lid

The design of iPad2 cover looks similar with Japanese bath tab lid.

See also:
What New iPad2 Smart Cover Reminds Japanese – Bath Tub Lid

Then, Japanese blogger k.kinukawa [J]　made original iPad2 cover by using bath tub lid.




Funny!! :D

The covers are thicker than iPad2. The effort of Apple is spoiled! :D

DESIGN FESTA! vol.33 photo report

I went to Japanese art event "DESIGN FESTA! vol.33" yesterday. It is the usual, this event is a treasure house of a variety of personality.


Main gate


New usage of tablet


Mystery creature


My lunch was a loco moco.




My friend GALVANIC's cool booth & works.


Show area




Super coooooool figure!!


I bought a strap of skull at this booth by 700yen. Good price!


Japanese sword umbrella. This made news in the U.S. 


The very beautiful sunset


Using Instagram

Mickey Mouse goes Japanese Virtual World "Ameba Pigg"

Anyone knows that the license consent of the character of Disney is difficult. Therefore there are little virtual goods of Disney.
However, Japanese virtual world "Ameba Pigg" released a lot of Disney's virtual goods last week.

There is the "Disney area" where they are sold. Very cute!









Fountain of Mickey Mouse


Item vending machine


Did Donald Duck wash?




Cute!


Virtual goods are sold for 200yen - 300yen. ( About 2.3USD - 3.5USD)


KAWAII !!

Nintendo 3DS of another person

I watched Nintendo 3DS of the fellow worker yesterday. I was not able to reserve it in Amazon.co.jp because it was too popular.














This is my first impression:
I thought the superior point of Nintendo 3DS to be "AR Games". 3D stereoscopic vision of Nintendo 3DS is very smooth ans natural. In addition, "Face shooting", upload the face image and to make a shooting game is very interesting (and funny!). However, AR games are more attractive than them. I think that it can be most superior in a released AR game now.

Games such as THE EYE OF JUDGMENT may increase by Nintendo 3DS in future.

Coolest office in Tokyo

I went in an EC navi special version of Bar Android the day before yesterday.

EC navi is a startup of Tokyo, but it is known as super cool office.

The art object of an entrance made from iron.

A floor map such as the map which shows whereabouts of the treasure.

 COOOOOOOL!! The office where chandeliers are set up might be only here in Tokyo.

The sketching of the design concept.

Wall of conference room completed with concrete block of Okinawa special product.

It seems to be totally a shop, but here is a meeting room, too.

 "Do not become navy. It is a pirate." Nice slogan!

 

I got a clear file of English word learning iPhone application "Moetan" as a souvenir.

Let's make a Bird Cafe’s poor osechi figure

I have begun to make Bird Cafe 's poor osechi figure.

See Also
Photo Report: Wonder Festival 2011 winter

This is very delicate Garage kits.(The scale is 1/12)

I separated a parts carefully.

 

At first I spray Surface Primer.

To be continued......