| According to IT Media, Tokyu Railway and National Institute of Informatics will carry out a PR experiment of Augmented Reality (AR) tied-up with Dennou Coil and Doraemon. They will plant "Meta Bug pin" around Shibuya station and users look for them by iPhone application. If you collect all the Meta Bugs, you can exchange it with a meal ticket. Image of the Meta Bug pin The project is a part of Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)'s "e-space Demonstration Project". According to Sankei newspaper, METI collaborated with VOCALOID Hatsune Miku to promote the recycling campaign of mobile phones. Tansu Keitai official website Hatsune Miku sings "Tansu Keitai Atsume-tai no Uta" composed by the head of Environment Recycling Office and the mp3 file is available in the official website for downloading. Sources: IT Media Sankei |
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| Always another reason to like Japan. |
| Makes me wish we had taken up augmented reality instead of robotics for our thesis. ; _ ; |
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| Wait what? What is the objective again? |
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| cooool! free meal ticket?! XD |
| Sounds fun, but quite difficult because of all who will probably be quite difficult with all the people who visit Shibuya. It sounds a tiny bit like "The World Ends With You", actually, but using science rather than supernatural forces and without the noise (monsters). At least they did this collaboration with a good anime, rather than Lucky Star or something like that. |
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| Dennou Coil is becoming reality lol. Only in Japan. Yuunagi said: Makes me wish we had taken up augmented reality instead of robotics for our thesis. ; _ ; Don't be disappointed, robotics is pretty interesting as well. A possible choice of area of expertise for my thesis. |
bla bla bla The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.Niko-kun said: On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard? |
Hybrid00 said: Awesome! Japan is the best |
| Dennou Coil is great. I wish I could find Metabugs in the US. |
ladyxzeus said: Wait what? What is the objective again? No really. It must have an objective. Or is the Japanese government so rich that they need to waste their economical resources on games? |
ladyxzeusDec 25, 2009 2:29 PM
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| National Institute of Informatics said the objective of the experiment is to create a new market by combining the IT technique with service industry. |
dtshyk said: National Institute of Informatics said the objective of the experiment is to create a new market by combining the IT technique with service industry. Ah. So new market based off reality entertainment? I can't really see what services can appear from this... But yeah, now I kind of get the "why". Using the common population as experimentation tool, that's kind of cool. |
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ladyxzeus said: Absolutely.Using the common population as experimentation tool, that's kind of cool. |
| japan is awesome |
ladyxzeus said: I imagine a less obstrusive method of making information available to the public. Think of it as a step up from the more common QR code which can direct your mobile phone to a certain web page.I can't really see what services can appear from this... |
| not bad.. I wish I lived in Japan |
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