Japan’s second biggest telecommunications firm KDDI announced [JP] it has acquired an equity stake in French based Total Immersion S.A., an augmented reality (AR) software maker. Business daily The Nikkei says it has learned KDDI paid 100 million yen (US$1.3 million) for a 15% interest in the company. Total Immersion has offices in North America,… Continue reading KDDI Buys 15% Stake In French AR Company Total Immersion
Day: September 10, 2011
August 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 3)
Please follow this new Asiajin Mixi page if you have a Mixi account. Continued from (Part 2). Last part of August news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Dragonslayer Wedding Cake Cut Celemony Mixi Changes Its Logo. A blog Orange wrote [J] that… Continue reading August 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 3)
Popular 2-Channel Ascii Arts Animated
It has been 12 years since 2-channel serves Japanese net users. The gigantic anonymous bulletin boards are still kept simple without image/movie, all you type is texts. You may post URL of images there, and many 2-channel viewer clients, which many users are now using, extracted to display in the posts for convenience. But still,… Continue reading Popular 2-Channel Ascii Arts Animated
M-Trix: Android Market Specialized For Anime Porn Apps
Japanese company M-trix launched its own Android Apps Market “M-trix Market”, which targets Japanese-style bishoujyo (Wikipedia) games. The site has an age confirmation screen, The games list looks like this, Exdroid reported [J] that there were over 10,000 apps downloaded only for the launch day, though the number may include free apps. The initial launch… Continue reading M-Trix: Android Market Specialized For Anime Porn Apps
Hatsune Miku’s L.A. Performance To Be Sold On Blu-ray/DVD/CD
MIKUNOPOLIS in LOS ANGELES “Nice To Meet You, I’m Hatsune Miku” [Blu-ray] [J] Sega [J] is releasing a Blu-ray/DVD as well as a Live CD of “MIKUNOPOLIS in LOS ANGELES `Nice To Meet You, I’m Hatsune Miku,`” in which Hatsuon Miku makes her first overseas performance held on July 2nd, 2011 at Nokia Theater in… Continue reading Hatsune Miku’s L.A. Performance To Be Sold On Blu-ray/DVD/CD