We knew it: Japanese game company uses Oculus Rift for porno games

This is Japan.

Japanese Tech media Weekly ascii reports it about contents for adults using Oculus Rift. Japanese Bishojo(美少女: Beautiful girl) game developer Illusion develops Eroge(エロゲ: Erotic game) using Oculus Rift.

You can watch the whole body of an actual sexy actress by attaching Oculus Rift. They scanned an actress with 3D scanner to make real 3D model.

Of course you can stare at her from various angles and distance.

The title of this is "PLAYGIRLS" and Illusion releases this by the end of this year. If you want to see this quickly, go to the demo-corner of PC shop G-Tune : Garage in Akihabara, Tokyo.



via http://weekly.ascii.jp/elem/000/000/244/244372/

Nameko cooperates with a convenience store in Hong Kong

Japanese mobile game superstar Nameko makes efforts in the advance to the neighborhood Asia area more. They are already popular in Taiwan and aim at Hong Kong next to there.

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Now, they cooperate with convenience store Circle K in Hong Kong. There are no such cute shops even in Japan. I am envious of Hong Kongers!

More photos are here > Nameko official site "Name-Para ~Nameko Paradise~" (Chinese)

Nameko and Circle K do the tie-up using Hong Kong original goods "Nameko comical pens". When customers do shopping more than the 20HK dollar in Circle K, they can get Nameko sticker. And when they collect Nameko stickers 12 pieces, they can get one kind among six kinds of Nameko comical pens. This is not sold in Japan, and is Hong Kong original limited goods made for this tie-up.

The details of the tie-up is here (Chinese).

Circle K sells a lot of Nameko goods like Japan to this. Furthermore, for the advertising of this, they decorate a wall surface of Kowloon Tong Station and Causeway Bay Station cutely. This has not been yet carried out in Japan, too.

Beeworks, the developer of Nameko is interested in mainland China, Korea and Southeast Asia. They already open Nameko web shop for Korean users and open a popup shop in Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul now.

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Info of popup shop in Dongdaemun Design Plaza(Korean).

Unity obeys a Japanese way and exhibit to Comic Market

In overseas offices of Unity, Unity Japan performs activity localized most. They release Japanese style "moe(萌え)" personification character Unity-Chan(ユニティちゃん) and show her data to developers.

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They exhibit to Comic Market(Comiket) to raise her popularity more.

Comiket is the world's largest dōjinshi(同人誌: self-published comic books) fair and sacred place of Otaku. Manga, Anime, games... etc, Otaku of every genre gather here (Wikipedia).
Unity Japan sells various goods of Unity-Chan here. Lineups are...

• Music CD
• Dance motion for 3D models
• Art book "UNITY-CHAN! OFFICIAL ART LOG 2"

In addition, dance motion video of Unity-Chan is shown in their booth and ad round fans of Unity-Chan are distributed to visitors for free.

Comiket 86 is held in Tokyo Big Sight until in August 15 - 17. However, please be careful. This is not comfortable otaku event. This is a battlefield of otaku.

Ingress players of Hiroshima prayed for peace and drew paper crane on the map

August 6 is the memorial day when an A-bomb was dropped on Japan's Hiroshima. A ceremony is held every year in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on this day, and a lot of cranes of the origami "Orizuru" are displayed there.

Orizuru - paper crane of origami - is one of the general works of the origami, but It is often used as an item of the recovery from a disease and an injuries, the revival from disasters and the pray for peace. For example, there is a case that classmates make and give Senbazuru(千羽鶴: 1,000 paper crane of origami) for the friend who suffered from a serious disease.

Therefore Ingress players of Hiroshima flashed for an interesting idea. Ingress is mobile geolocation game of Google and players are divided into two camp and scramble for portals on a real map. When players tie neighboring portals in lines, they become the aspect. Players of Hiroshima paid attention to this. Because they connected portals well around the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, they became the shape of huge orizuru.

This has two important points. Ingress is usable as not only the game but also an art tool. And It's the wonderful art that two camp fighting against each other cooperate and made. It is right good for peace.

You can watch their Orizuru facture here (Japanese).

Virtual diorama using AR expresses time

I wrote it about AR promotion of the Japanese national treasure anime Doraemon the other day.

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This is one of them, too.

This is the caramel candy which confectionery company Glico sells. Caramel candy are in the lower box and freebie is in the upper box.

freebies of this package is cute figures of Doraemon. Five kinds of figures are in the box at random.

However, the figure is not important in these freebies. Such AR marker is drawn on the box and we can watch a virtual diorama by this.

At first I downloaded AR application from the Glico's website. And I tap a box of Doraemon who is on the left side and scan AR marker with a camera.

Then scenery appeared around figure!

Furthermore, surprisingly this virtual diorama has a sound and animations. The cry of cicadas sounds(It's a Japanese summer feature), and the ball of the baseball flies.

In addition, this can express the time. Crows call in dusk, and a shooting star appears at night. It's very tasteful and right a "future diorama".

The AR application is free and we can download AR marker here. However, Unfortunately the application is released only in Japanese App Store and Google Play. You must get those Japanese accounts somehow or other!