Measure your child's growth

Children grow up very quickly and it is hard to buy items that fit. Especially when buying shoes, it is important to make sure that your children's feet and shoes are the right size. So, Software developer Techfirm collaborated with children's shoe brand IFME to develop a mobile application for iOS Pittari-IFME that can measure the size of children's feet using AR.

This application uses the iPhone's AR function ARKit, and when you shoot your children's foot with a smartphone camera, it measures the foot size from that image. To increase the accuracy of the measurement, you need to use A4 paper as a comparison object, which allows the application to measure distance in 3D space. This is also designed for cases where children cannot stand still, and the position can be finely adjusted after shooting so that the shooting time is as short as possible. Measurement records are displayed graphically within the application, and you can record the growth of the children's feet. It also sends push messages once every three months to remind you to measure.
Downloading the application is free, and the release of the Android version is undecided.

[TGS2019 report] Tokyo Game Show 2019 has begun

Today, on September 12, 2019, the biggest game festival in Japan Tokyo Game Show 2019 has began at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Pref. The period is September 12 ~ 15.

The theme of this year's Tokyo Game Show is “More Connected, More Fun.” According to the announcement of the sponsored CESA and Nikkei BP, 655 companies and organizations from 40 countries are exhibiting this year. Among them, there are 350 Japanese companies exhibiting, which is the highest ever. The number of exhibition booths reached a record high of 2417. The games on display are 1522 titles.

This year's Tokyo Game Show is focused on streaming, and will provide reports videos in English and Chinese, and videos with English subtitles on various platforms. If you want to watch them, first check the official website of the English version of the Tokyo Game Show.

https://expo.nikkeibp.co.jp/tgs/2019/en/event/movie

Apps that prevent mistakes in buying clothes

When buying new clothes on online shops, it's awkward to get the wrong size, and trying in real stores is troublesome. As new features of their mobile application, UNIQLO has released MySize CAMERA, that allows users to measure their body with the cameras of their smartphones. But if we know the right size clothes before buying them, it's useful. Fashion retail UNIQLO has released MySize CAMERA, a new feature of their mobile application that allows users to measure their bodies with the cameras of their smartphones.

When you enter your height, weight, gender, and age in the application and upload pictures of yourself taken from two directions, front and left side, the application will automatically create 10 points on your body estimate the size and display them. You can register these estimated sizes in the UNIQLO online store, so you can use them when purchasing clothes online.

If you are troublesome to take pictures, MySize ASSIST, which suggests the best clothing size from data is useful. If you enter your height, weight, gender and age in the application, and then select from your choices such as your stomach or hip shape, your preferred wearing feeling, purchase data for other users of similar body shapes recommends clothes size based on. Of course, this feature is also available in the online store. After you search for clothes using this function, the recommended size is continuously displayed when you browse other clothes. However, items for kids, inner wear, items for babies, maternity wear, room wear, and other goods are not eligible.
These features are currently only available in the iOS version.

Okayama prefectural gov uses cute VTubers to send prefectural information

Now, virtual Youtuber(VTuber) is very popular in Japan. It's not just geeks, otakus, developers, performers, artists, and actors who are crazy about them.
Today, the prefectural office in Okayama Prefecture, one of the prefectures in Japan, released a publicity video using VTuber.

Their names are Momoko(girl) and Kibito(boy), the Okayama Prefecture certified VTubers. Each voices are played by popular voice actors Yu Serizawa(芹澤優) and Kento Ito(伊東健人). They are students who go to a fictional high school, and tell in the first video how pre-preparation is important in disaster management. It is especially important to check the hazard risk and the route to the evacuation site on the hazard map. Recently, disasters such as typhoons and heavy rains continued in western Japan, including Okayama Prefecture. This is very timely information.

The Okayama Prefectural Gov Public Relations Division has also opened official website of Momoko and Kibito. From now on, they will release various publicity videos by VTubers here.

Label printer optimized for smartphones

TEPRA is King Jim's popular label printer. On August 20, they released a new small model TEPRA Lite LR30 that can be operated from a smartphone application.

This is a model specialized for smartphones of TEPRA. You can easily create various labels by connecting your smartphone and this with Bluetooth, and using its free mobile application TEPRA Lite. In the application, you can change the size of characters and images, consider their placement, design labels freely, and use emoji, frames and template designs. In addition, you can even create your own caricatures and add photos stored on your smartphones.
This is a palm size of 76mm x 71mm x 46mm, weigh is about 132g, and work by four AAA alkaline batteries. The printing method is thermal, and the maximum printable width is about 9.0mm. Color variations are blue and white and the price is 7,344 yen (tax included).