Mobile Suit Gundam is getting ready to launch into the world of virtual reality. This weekend at Anime NYC, Bandai Namco Filmworks announced a feature film-length VR anime set in the Gundam universe. The VR film is called Mobile Suit Gundam Silver Phantom, and it’s …Read more »
Virtual reality can take you to different worlds, but it can also take you back in time. Toei Animation subdivision Onn’on Studios teamed up with Sony to create a virtual space titled “Nostalgia 1999.” It can be found on VRChat. The nostalgia is specifically otaku …Read more »
Have you been harassed in the metaverse? Anthropologist Liudmila Bredikhina, who has a Master’s degree from Geneva University, teamed up with Virtual Girl Nem, a “Japanese VTuber and Metaverse Culture Evangelist” to do a survey on how much social VR users around the world experience …Read more »
This month, the Re:ZERO mobile game Lost in Memories is celebrating two years in service. While you may not be able to play the game in the U.S. just yet, you can dive into its metaverse counterpart right now! While the exhibition is ultimately a simple virtual …Read more »
Virtual Bishojo Nem, a Japanese VTuber, and Mila, a Swiss VTuber anthropologist also known as Liudmila Bredikhina, have teamed up on a survey about harassment in virtual reality. The NPO Virtual Rights group in Japan is also attached as an official supporter. The survey is …Read more »
Anime is full of virtual reality adventures — gamers taking part in “full-dive” fantasy adventures so real, they can lose themselves in it. (Sometimes literally, in the case of some isekai series.) Even in 2021, where we have powerful computers in our pockets and can talk to …Read more »
How would you like to watch anime in virtual reality? HTC Vive and Bandai Namco are going to be working together on exactly that. Their goal is to get the anime available on the Viveport storefront. And it sounds as if they’ll be making new …Read more »
As fans of Mr. Osomatsu know, one of the Matsuno brothers’ favorite activities is going to the public bath. Now at an arcade in Tokyo, you can join them. In virtual reality, that is. “Osomatsu-san VR,” which opened to the public December 7, is the …Read more »
Final Fanta-wheeeee! The other day, we reported Universal Studios Japan would be hosting a Final Fantasy-themed ride next year, but it hadn’t yet been announced what shape it would take. Today we’ve learned that the attraction, called Final Fantasy XR Ride, will be a roller …Read more »
Brave Witches is going virtual. The upcoming Strike Witches spinoff series will be adapted into a VR project by anime studio Production I.G, it was revealed today. It appears the project, which has the temporary name Brave Witches VR , is not exactly a game, …Read more »
Before he hit it big with I Am a Hero , artist Kengo Hanazawa wrote a manga called Ressentiment about men entering an online world in which VR goggles and special body suits allowed them to, uh, know the touch of a woman. A few …Read more »
As we reported a couple weeks back, IBM Japan is hard at work at bringing Sword Art Online to life with a virtual reality MMO called Sword Art Online: The Beginning . Some more information and photos came out at an event this weekend, along …Read more »
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