Short eight minutes but a blend of traditional, sports, music, technology, secondary elements of a variety of Japanese elements, music is simply written only four words "Ringo Shiina", animation is full of childhood memories: "Soccer", "Hello Kitty", "Super Mario", "Doraemon", "Pac-Man". Pac-Man".
Many people were already too excited to see these parts, as the first few minutes were pretty much a group flashback to childhood (except for when the whole thing squirted when they saw Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe turn into Mario).
Square dancing
If the first few minutes were all about sports and second nature, the later performances using AR (augmented reality) were a mix of technology, music and dance. The solution provider for the AR effects in "Tokyo 8 Minutes" was the Japanese creative team Rhizomatiks, founded in 2006 by Mr. Daido Manabe.
The 33 shapes that appear in the air through AR technology correspond to the 33 Olympic sports
Daido Manabe was previously a VFX technician for the Japanese electro-acoustic group Perfume, and his work is often both technological and geometrical, while he himself is an all-around artist who combines his roles as a composer, a VJ, a programmer, and a designer. He is a composer, VJ, programmer and designer all in one. When Rhizomatiks first started, they uploaded a video of facial muscles interacting with sound at a time when YouTube in Japan wasn't used much. The video is a reflection of an experiment in which Rhizomatiks uses myoelectric potential sensors and current stimulation circuits to connect electrical currents to his face, and then forcibly controls facial expressions in response to changing musical signals.
As a result of the video, Danu Manabe's name began to be known, and his Rhizomatiks became known in the industry, with Danu Manabe performing "Face Visualizer" in April 2009 at Sanlitun.
Since then it's become one of his most prestigious works
Border, an experiential artwork he's done, is also completely arbitrary, with no regard for return on investment, and can only accommodate ten people at a time, or eighty or so over the course of three days.
The special thing about Border is that the completion of this work requires the dancers and the audience to **** together. The audience sits in motorized wheelchairs that are fully automated by a computer. When the performance begins, the audience can see both the real world and the virtual scenery (AR) formed by the helmet, with the interplay of lights and the dancers' dancing. The audience will no longer be able to distinguish between reality and reality, when the dancer touches the audience to recognize what is real in front of them.
The use of augmented reality (AR) technology in music and dance expands the boundaries of the stage, bringing a different experience to both dancers and audience.
Japanese dance company ELEVEN PLAY has collaborated with the creative team Rhizomatiks on several dances that incorporate technological hardware elements such as robotic arms and electrically-controlled floats. The dance in the video below is a dance with a drone***.
Perfume's previous concerts have used hologram technology.
At the 2012 KIRIN BERWERY HYOKETSU SUMMER NIGHT performance, holograms were used to project different images around the trio as their movements changed. At the performance, the trio could not see any of their own images; the projections were actually on a transparent screen in front of them, and a series of sophisticated techniques were used to realize the movement of the images along with the movements of the people. One of the most important is, their nails on the reverse reflective material sensors, as well as set up in front of their infrared transilluminator and high-speed camera, the camera captured from the fingers issued by the reflective line, instantly determine the location of their fingers, and then projected in the finger position of the dynamic image.
In June 2013, at the 60th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Perfume performed on stage as the first Japanese artist to do so. On stage, the dancing Perfume were projected with dynamic geometric images. The scene was so powerful that the audience gasped in amazement.
Infrared cameras and range-finder cameras captured the members' subtle movements, and the projections changed in real time according to a backstage program. The costumes worn by Perfume during the show were also able to change shape through remote computer control. The image changes constantly with the costumes and dance movements. The whole process requires a great deal of technical precision and care, otherwise it would be very difficult to achieve a perfect match between the human and the image.
And in the video for "Cold Stares," which he created for singer Nosaj Thing, Dato' Manabe is just as cool as they come. Using 3D scanning (64RGB cameras), motion capture, and augmented reality, the audience follows the two dancers in both the real and virtual worlds as they constantly weave and flip in and out of view, stripping away the boundaries between reality and reality.