{"id":16699,"date":"2012-02-06T19:46:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T10:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=16699"},"modified":"2012-02-06T19:46:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T10:46:01","slug":"robot-avatar-music-sharing-service-beatrobo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/robot-avatar-music-sharing-service-beatrobo\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot Avatar Music Sharing Service “Beatrobo”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tried out the music service \u201cBeatrobo<\/a>,\u201d where you create a robot avatar and listen to the same music (YouTube videos) with your friends and introduce music to each other.
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\nThe avatar on the right has a little too much flavor \u2026
\nThis \u201cBeatrobo\u201d is a social music community that was just released on December 20th of last year. \u00a0From its initial release, users gathered explosively by word of mouth, and also already over 170,000 users \u201clike\u201d the Facebook page<\/a>. \u00a0The service came out of Japan, but the site itself is published in English, so there are lots of foreign users. \u00a0The original CEO founder is Hiroshi Asaeda from Melting Dots<\/a>, [J] who have a business connection with Second Life and worked on management of the Japanese version of the German avatar service \u201cWeblin.\u201d
\nOne major key point of \u201cBeatrobo\u201d is its \u201casynchronous\u201d feature. \u00a0Although it says \u201ctogether with friends,\u201d it\u2019s not necessary to be logged in simultaneously. \u00a0Also new users don\u2019t need to go through the registering process, they can use it easily from their Facebook account. \u00a0When you log in your Facebook account and friend information are automatically transferred.
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\nWhen you first login, it starts out with the avatar creation screen. \u00a0However the avatar design is simple, so you just choose eyes, mouth, and color combination.
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\nWhen avatar creation is finished your room appears. YouTube video appears in the backstage. \u00a0The interesting thing here is that Beatrobo\u2019s system automatically makes a recommended playlist based on the number of \u201cLike\u201ds on Facebook. \u00a0However it doesn\u2019t completely search for music based on your own taste, but it\u2019s quite nice as a starting point. \u00a0Also it simultaneously displays avatars of people using Beatrobo via your Facebook friends, so even though it\u2019s asynchronous, it seems as if someone is there with you.
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\nThis is a list of Facebook friends using Beatrobo (names have been erased). \u00a0It\u2019s also possible to call someone\u2019s avatar to your room.
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\nUp to 5 people can be displayed including yourself in one room. \u00a0You and your friends\u2019 playlists are played back in order, and as each avatar in turn takes the stage, the continuous motion in fine detail is adorable. \u00a0Also can vote \u201cLOVE\u201d for videos that you enjoy (just in the same was as \u201cLike\u201d on Facebook). \u00a0When you vote LOVE, points are added to users streaming that video, but at the moment it doesn\u2019t particularly seem to be in use. \u00a0In the future if you could buy avatar items or room items with these points, the virtual space type of play would be interesting, don\u2019t you think?
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I tried out the music service \u201cBeatrobo,\u201d where you create a robot avatar and listen to the same music (YouTube videos) with your friends and introduce music to each other. The avatar on the right has a little too much flavor \u2026 This \u201cBeatrobo\u201d is a social music community that was just released on December… Continue reading Robot Avatar Music Sharing Service “Beatrobo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[408],"class_list":["post-16699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-game-2","tag-beatrobo","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}