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Doraemon ‘Anywhere Door’ Uses Simple Props for a Brilliant VR Experience

Road to VR

Bandai Namco’s ‘ Project i Can ‘ has made the Anywhere Door a (virtual) reality using the HTC Vive, Leap Motion, and a few simple props tracked with attached Vive controllers. Another scene seen through the door puts the users on top of a train with a tunnel rushing right at them.

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My Taiwanese XR Chronicles part 1: Cave, zSpace, Brogent hands-on

The Ghost Howls

This also means that there is more contamination from the West and also from Japan, considering that this island was part of Japan various years ago. It was a multiplayer training experience about work safety where I (the trainer) could do the experience in VR and all other people could watch me while I did it.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.01): Facebook is very confident in Quest 2 sales, Valve is working on Neural Interfaces, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Canon has just announced the launch in Japan of MREAL S1 , its latest mixed reality headset for the industry. It is going to be distributed in Japan starting from this month. UltraLeap (formerly known as Leap Motion) has just launched the 5th iteration of its hands-tracking runtime, called Gemini.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. Location-based games are already popular, with over a billion downloads of Pokemon Go in the three years since it launched, and over 20B kilometers walked playing the game.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. He has demonstrated even more original (and less scary) ideas for AR interaction while directing UX design at Leap Motion. These solutions have shown an incredible ability to educate, train, and solve real-world problems. 14- Kai Liang.