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What started as a project between Japanese telco KDDI and Tokyo district Shibuya to create a digital twin city and prove the power of 5G has blossomed into a full-scale metaverse experiment. The Drum speaks to Geometry Ogilvy Japan about the lessons learned from creating one of the world’s first ‘linked cities.’
Shibuya Ward is once again putting on a virtual Halloween. However, the municipality's experiments in the digital sphere could lead to something more interesting than ghosts and pumpkins.
KDDI Corp. and Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward are promising this year’s online Halloween events through “Virtual Shibuya,” a digital space where the Shibuya Station area is visually reproduced in detail, will be bigger and better.
July 20 2021, 12:45 pm | BY Kim Shaw | No Comments Virtual Shibuya – the virtual town officially certified by Shibuya City, for the Shibuya 5G Entertainment Project celebrates its first anniversary with the expansion to “Harajuku”. The new virtual e-commerce experience, labeled V-Commerce, captures the district’s rich cultures of music, art, and fashion with its exclusive virtual shops and entertainment. The pioneering Japanese virtual platform was launched in May 2020, with an opening event in 2020 bringing over 50,000 people together in front of the famous Shibuya intersec...