{"id":256,"date":"2008-04-13T16:54:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/13\/ai-sp%ef%bc%a0ce-metaverse-meets-otaku-culture\/"},"modified":"2008-04-13T16:54:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T07:54:08","slug":"ai-space-metaverse-meets-otaku-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/ai-space-metaverse-meets-otaku-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"ai sp\uff20ce &#8211; Metaverse meets Otaku culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ai-sp.jp\/\">ai sp@ce<\/a>(pronounced &#8220;eye space&#8221;) is a newcoming Japanese virtual world service raised its curtain on 8th.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/ai-space-logo.png' alt='ai sp@ce logo' \/><br \/>\nai sp@ce production committee formed by <a href=\"http:\/\/info.dwango.co.jp\/\">Dwango<\/a>(cellularphone contents, parent company of Niwango, <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/tag\/niconico-douga\/\">Niconico Douga<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.headlock.jp\/\">Headlock<\/a>(online game), <a href=\"http:\/\/bushiroad.com\/\">Bushiroad<\/a> and three R-18 game companies, <a href=\"http:\/\/key.visualarts.gr.jp\/\">Visual Arts<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-navel.com\/\">Omega Vision<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/circus.nandemo.gr.jp\/\">Circus<\/a>, are targetting 2008 summer release.<br \/>\nView of the virtual world is provide by 3 adult PC games, CLANNAD, SHUFFLE and Da Capo II, each has its own island and connected at the center island reproducing Akihabara.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/aispsc13.png' alt='ai sp@ce Akihabara' \/><br \/>\nSo it sounds that the basic system is similar with other virtual world services such like Second Life.<br \/>\nThe differences are,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Japanimation-type character design from &#8220;Galge&#8221; genre (abbr. of &#8220;Gal Game&#8221;, &#8220;Bishoujyo Game&#8221;, bishoujyo means beaufitul girl, or &#8220;Eroge&#8221;, erotic game. Manga\/animation style pornographic games are quite popular in PC game market in Japan.)<\/li>\n<li>Your avatar is accompanied by Chara-Doll (or &#8220;Dle&#8221; from idle?), which follows and lives with your avatar in the same house<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/aispsc03.png' alt='ai sp@ce screenshot' \/><br \/>\nThe service is expected to earn by selling items and lands, which is same as SecondLife.<br \/>\nSecond Life completely lost its momentum in Japan, although there had been a lot of Second Life promotions on national TV, newspapers and specialized magazines (<a href=\"http:\/\/akimoto.jp\/blog\/2007\/12\/05\/%e3%82%bb%e3%82%ab%e3%83%b3%e3%83%89%e3%83%a9%e3%82%a4%e3%83%95%e3%81%ae%e9%9b%91%e8%aa%8c\/\">SecondLife Magazine and Virtual World Walker<\/a> [J]). This ai sp@ce&#8217;s success could be an answer if it was localization failure (i.e. Japanese net users did not like american character designs), or virtual world business does not have much potential anyway.<br \/>\nTheir press movie is on <a href=\"http:\/\/akky.vox.com\/library\/post\/ai-spce-press-conference-movie.html\">my vox account<\/a>. If you are a Niconico Douga user, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicovideo.jp\/watch\/zd2960561\">here<\/a> is a link. (It is only uploaded on Niconico Douga, and embedding videos only permitted to their partner blogspaces, not for individual blog like Asiajin, unfortunately.)<br \/>\n<footnote>notice: All images are copyrighted by ai sp@ce seisaku iinkai, and the system on the screenshots is under development<\/footnote><\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/info.dwango.co.jp\/pdf\/news\/service\/2008\/080408.pdf\">Dwango&#8217;s Press Release<\/a> [pdf, Japanese]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/07\/japanese-company-rebuilds-old-tokyo-in-second-life\/\">Japanese company rebuilds old Tokyo in Second Life<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ai sp@ce(pronounced &#8220;eye space&#8221;) is a newcoming Japanese virtual world service raised its curtain on 8th. ai sp@ce production committee formed by Dwango(cellularphone contents, parent company of Niwango, Niconico Douga), Headlock(online game), Bushiroad and three R-18 game companies, Visual Arts, Omega Vision and Circus, are targetting 2008 summer release. View of the virtual world is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/ai-space-metaverse-meets-otaku-culture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ai sp\uff20ce &#8211; Metaverse meets Otaku culture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[17,23],"tags":[148,435,1000,1089,1310,2280,3255],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-ai-spce","tag-bishoujyo-game","tag-dwango","tag-eroge","tag-galge","tag-metaverse","tag-second-life","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}