Radio Kaikan, an Akihabara's landmark which was closed in August 2011 and waiting to be deconstructed, got a fallen satellite today.
It is a promotion around an Sci-Fi game STEINS;GATE which set in Akihabara. The construction has been reported [J] by many Twitter users.
The Radio Kaikan and Steins; Gate collaboration event is held from today 28th to 30th [J].
Probably you know about Vocaloid, one of the most advanced voice synthesizers apps. Hatsune Miku, a huge successful Japanese virtual idol, was created using this software.
What you may not know is the Vocaloid software itself, which is a Yamaha Corporation trademark, was developed in a joint research with the Pompeu Fabra University of Spain. Maybe because of that, to find a Spanish company developing two new vocaloid artist is not that surprising. Their names are Bruno and Clara, and they are a creation of a company called VoctroLabs.
Following this link you will find one of their songs; quite "latino" style. They generated a lot of expectation, seeing the +23.000 views of this video; but what almost everybody agrees is the design is not best. Let's see if VoctroLabs is able to bring this product in the correct direction.
From december of this year, these vocaloid voices will be available for your own creations (if you know Spanish, of course). They will make the announcement at their blog.
Square Enix, who has been publishing nation's two most popular role-playing game series, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest on several console for more than decade, has launched a teaser site telling their flagship Final Fantasy will come on Japan's large social gaming network Mobage.
The launch date is just written "This winter". The social Final Fantasy will be available on three major carriers feature phone web services (i-mode, ezWeb and Yahoo! Ketai). If you are using their feature phone in Japan (besides using expensive roaming, it is not reachable from oversea), you may apply per-registration from here.
iPhone's new voice interface Siri is getting kind of artificial personality with human voice and many prepared witty answers. If so, such "virtual person in machine" is of course the Japanese anime/manga people's favorite theme as seen on human voice synthesizer Hatsune Miku and her Vocaloid buddies are followed by a lot of illustrations, comics, dance movie, etc.
Around the social drawing community Pixiv, there are already many Siri illustrations by Japanese creators.
By Bohe(@bhe_bbo)
By Kuuki Satoh. This uses the line that Siri's name sounds ass in Japanese (Shiri).
More on Pixiv [J].
"Tokyo Kenchiku Navi/Tokyo Architecture Navigator" is a new English/Japanese bilingual iOS app by real-estate information website R-Store, which covers about 1,000 Tokyo buildings designed by architects like Tadao Ando, Arata Isozaki, Kazuyo Sejima, etc.
The app contains around 3,000 photos of the buildings, information of each building such like the designer's name, address, year established, etc.
By GPS, you can list the buildings around you on map, route guide to a building as well.
The new buildings info are planned to be updated every year. Android version is under development. The price is 600 yen.
via MyCom [J]
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