Have you ever wanted to go on a date with a female idol in Japan? Who hasn't?!
With the BotsNew 360-degree Virtual Reality Headset, now you can. The VR smartphone device by Megahouse works with the free BotsNew Player app for Android and iOS to provide you with ultra-realistic, 360-degree surround video experiences.
Some of these are innocuous, such as a roller coaster ride.
But one of the videos is a "date" with idol group, such as cult group Kamen Joshi (masked girls).
Here's a making-of video, showing how they filmed other video content bikini-clad girls to those ...
Make the first "AI doll" based on gravure idol Ai Shinozaki.
First off, there's some serious wordplay going on here: "AI doll" is aidoru (idol), while Shinozaki's name also references "artificial intelligence."
In other words, some geeky boffins are planning to create a fully digital version of Shinozaki.
Virtual idols already exist aplenty, from Vocaloid music idols to AKB48 temporary digital members and virtual dating game idols.
How is this different?
Well, they are going to use artificial intelligence based on Ai Shinozaki.
The digital creation will speak like her and learn her ...
We all like to put pen to paper and sketch out a sexy cyborg or two.
But some of us are lucky enough to have that fantasy become three-dimensional reality!
Cult adult illustrator Hajime Sorayama's erotic robot female has become a limited-edition actual model.
You can buy one of the 100 models from July 24th to August 31st at Nanzuka gallery in Shibuya.
Produced in association with Medicom, who make the Be@rbrick series, the models will be 300mm (12") tall.
This uber-fantasy gynoid item will set you back a cool ¥162,000 ($1,300) and you'll have to wait until late ...
Get a 360-degree panorama "virtual shot" of a hot Japanese gravure model.
This "VR Girl" campaign features Miyako Akane, who has participated in Japan's biggest fetish event and also posed nude for a May issue of Playboy. She also posed for some of the hottest swimsuit shots we've seen in a while.
So we've established that Miyako Akane is hot.
So what?
Well, by downloading the immersive 360-degree videos app Kolor Eyes it seems you will be able to get a virtual reality-like experience of her, creating by 360Studio. It also works with the Oculus Rift, a device ...
Kind of.
Yuki Kashiwagi's android copy, Yukirin, is getting married to another robot, Frois, a robot designed by Maywa Denki in the likeness of a bath stool.
The marriage ceremony is taking place at Aoyama Cay in central Tokyo on June 27th.
Perhaps to calm down assuage any otaku, Yukirin has been rechristened Roborin, but to all intents and purposes she appears to be the same robot.
Tickets cost ¥10,000 and are limited to 100 people.
Is human-robot marriage (and sex!) now only a short step away?!
Our imaginations are running wild.
Combine a sex machine with an ...
Even a 2D anime character has feelings, you know.
Otaku love to decorate their hug pillow (dakimakura) with an anime character cover. Their companion is theirs to squeeze and talk to at night.
But Rina Makuraba, developed by Koichi Uchimura, takes things to another level.
She is a hug pillow that responds to your touch verbally. Just stroke her to elicit a "conversation".
She has a real personality and will even get cross with you if you get too touchy-feely. As we know, a cute girl getting angry at you is a fetish in Japan.
The system is called Itaspo ...
After its ridiculously creepy Summer Lesson demo for Project Morpheus met an avalanche of criticism both domestically and overseas, Sony has pulled the plug on the demo exhibit that was set to debut at Tokyo Game Show later this month.
The cancellation was announced today (September 12th), over a week after the Playstation 4 Project Morpheus HMD demo went public, meeting an instant tidal wave of disbelief and disgust.
Summer Lesson was supposed to be the calling card for Sony's new HMD system. Announced on September 1st, it quickly raised eyebrows when it emerged the demo was about ...
Relax. The Japanese economy has been saved. Engineers are here to rescue industry from the doldrums and produce the next step forward like the Walkman or the Hybrid car all those years ago.
Young engineers like this one.
Smart boffin Ryuto Soma joins a long line of other tech-savvy hentai geeks in Japan who use their technological skills for reasons of a masturbatory nature.
We've already had the Novint Falcon headset and Tenga combo and even a virtual sex system courtesy of the University of Tsukuba.
Ryuto Soma has come along and combined the Oculus Rift with a pair of ...
Sony has bizarrely chosen to show off its virtual reality headset Project Morpheus with this creepy demo Summer Lesson, to be exhibited at Tokyo Game Show later this month.
Sony, perhaps with an eye on its dismal sales of late, seems to want to attract the otaku dollar, since the demo, in contrast to previous ones that involved such exciting scenarios as a shark cage, is about leering at a loosely-dressed schoolgirl as she hangs around at home.
Here's the demo, though you'll have to wait until TGS to test it out.
Directed and produced by Katsuhiro ("Tekken") Harada -- who ...
As everyone knows, Japan is the world of technology.
Sometimes that engineering gets applies to home electronics, sometimes to automobiles, sometimes to nuclear reactors. And sometimes to sex toys.
And the result is you get the sex machine.
The pioneer was the Hitachi Magic Wand back in the 1970's, one of many electronic massagers that swiftly found extra unofficial uses. There have been a whole line of "wands" since, not least the Fairy.
But it's a few years ago when the genre really evolved.
The Rends A10 Cyclone has long been the most sophisticated and satisfactory sex ...
