[00:22.060 --> 00:22.580]  Hello?
[00:22.580 --> 00:23.400]  Can you hear me?
[00:24.300 --> 00:24.820]  Hi.
[00:41.710 --> 00:42.230]  Hello.
[00:42.710 --> 00:44.750]  Yeah, thanks for coming to my talk.
[00:45.570 --> 00:47.410]  My name is Yoshinari Nishiki.
[00:48.110 --> 00:50.050]  I'm normally based in the Netherlands.
[00:51.410 --> 00:58.790]  Well, I came here at this conference without knowing the other conference happening in the Netherlands, hackers conference happening in the Netherlands, but that's funny.
[00:58.790 --> 01:08.810]  Well, anyway, I'm going to present my project, which we started like during the right in the middle of the pandemic.
[01:09.350 --> 01:22.490]  So I normally work with the researchers from technical universities, mainly in the field of supply chain and logistics and as an artist and researcher.
[01:23.230 --> 01:25.990]  So I'm going to start my presentation.
[01:30.950 --> 01:44.850]  So how it started, basically, a friend of mine who worked for this small municipality in Japan, I'm originally from Japan, by the way, called Minami Sanriku, made contact with me.
[01:44.850 --> 01:53.590]  So this place is basically known as a disaster area from the 2011 tsunami.
[01:54.230 --> 01:58.470]  So it's been like more than a decade since the incident.
[01:58.790 --> 02:05.930]  However, it was still there suffering from some financial issues and stuff like that.
[02:05.930 --> 02:12.350]  And he basically run this new project called Chef in Residence, Minami Sanriku.
[02:12.470 --> 02:18.950]  So where he invited some more or less experimental chefs from abroad.
[02:19.450 --> 02:29.230]  And so they stayed in this region, trying to come up with new recipes by fusing their expertise and local cuisine.
[02:29.230 --> 02:33.570]  And so the first edition was successful.
[02:34.150 --> 02:37.910]  And they're planning the second one with chefs from Taiwan.
[02:38.810 --> 02:45.050]  But suddenly, you know, this got cancelled and like everything else during the pandemic.
[02:45.230 --> 02:50.410]  So he made contact with me, basically asking me, so what should we do with the budget?
[02:52.350 --> 02:59.850]  So I actually was in this place in 2019, summer, before the pandemic started.
[03:00.510 --> 03:06.170]  And this was in this one of the coffee places in the middle of the mountain.
[03:06.510 --> 03:12.990]  And I was kind of expected to see some sort of physical traces from the disaster.
[03:14.350 --> 03:18.290]  But for some reason, I really couldn't see much of it.
[03:18.450 --> 03:23.990]  Like, so the in terms of like, you know, the, you know, infrastructure and stuff like that.
[03:24.090 --> 03:27.290]  So it's everything has been has been already fixed really well.
[03:28.390 --> 03:35.310]  So, but what I could see was more, more or less, I would say, like a financial like traces.
[03:36.070 --> 03:54.130]  What I mean is that, you know, you see, you go to just like a local community center or like a library and those places and those buildings are made just kind of too well for this kind of with the sort of for this for place with this kind of population.
[03:54.130 --> 03:56.890]  So they have like about 10,000 people there.
[03:57.150 --> 04:05.190]  And then they have this library building that's made with this huge wood and some really large glasses and kind of stuff like that.
[04:05.290 --> 04:10.990]  It's kind of, you can kind of see the cost of it, like without even just, you know, thinking much about it.
[04:11.270 --> 04:14.510]  And then sort of this, like sort of the financial traces.
[04:14.770 --> 04:19.770]  I mean, they've kind of, this kind of reflects the magnitude of the disaster in this region.
[04:19.770 --> 04:28.910]  So basically the sort of the amount, the number of lives lost in this region sort of is reflected in this kind of way.
[04:29.050 --> 04:34.310]  So basically, you know, financially sort of trying to compensate for the lives that they lost.
[04:36.090 --> 04:41.790]  So if you observe this region from above, it's, it's C-shaped, roughly.
[04:42.070 --> 04:51.090]  And it's, this municipality is located in the northeast of Japan and facing the Pacific Ocean towards east.
[04:51.630 --> 05:01.470]  And what's special about this region is that the, the, they have all the water catchment areas within the municipality itself.
[05:02.050 --> 05:11.190]  So it means that sort of when water circulates from the forest to the sea and it goes back to the forest again.
[05:11.350 --> 05:17.170]  So basically sort of they can sort of manage the entire ecosystem within their own region, sort of.
[05:18.030 --> 05:32.910]  So, and also like the other thing that's, and that I learned is that because of the, what, when, when tsunami hits, basically sort of it comes and then sort of it goes back into the, sort of ocean again.
[05:33.130 --> 05:45.970]  So that sort of the, the only, not only that it carries like all the stuff from this place, from, from the town and stuff, but also all the pollution in the ocean itself.
[05:46.230 --> 05:57.250]  So that actually the, the ocean got much, much cleaner that the yield rate of, or for the, the aquaculture got much more improved and stuff like that.
[05:57.250 --> 05:59.950]  So it's some interesting stuff that I learned about.
[06:01.950 --> 06:15.430]  So around this time, like I started to hear some, some term like zoom fatigue and some, some, you know, like people, some demand for like a new kind of virtual physical space.
[06:15.430 --> 06:28.290]  So, so, so, and then one of the attempts that's like done was the, this London Marathon that was held virtually, which I participated in personally myself as well.
[06:28.510 --> 06:40.570]  And so basically what they did was to, they made this app and sort of you, you have to pay for it, but you get registered and you download the app.
[06:40.570 --> 06:54.590]  And sort of the, on this day of the marathon, you basically have to sort of, um, either sort of run the walk, um, the 26.2 miles within 20, 24 hours.
[06:54.990 --> 07:04.530]  So, um, the, the reason why I participated is that you can basically sort of take as much rest as you want, um, in the course of the marathon.
[07:04.530 --> 07:09.730]  So, um, sort of, because it's the, the, my finishing time is like a nine hours and five minutes.
[07:10.090 --> 07:18.710]  So, um, I would be, I would normally like in a normal marathon, I wouldn't participate because I would be too ashamed to be walking in front of people at all times.
[07:19.250 --> 07:21.510]  Um, so, um, basically, yeah.
[07:21.830 --> 07:29.530]  Um, um, so what it was, um, technically was the, um, um, audio based augmented reality experience.
[07:30.030 --> 07:45.150]  So, um, what it means is that, um, um, so basically sort of every mile you make, you get like announcements through the, um, the app, um, that says, oh, uh, you just made a one mile or whatever, you know, and then just, they basically tell you, uh, where you,
[07:45.370 --> 07:48.230]  where you will be sort of running in London.
[07:48.230 --> 07:54.270]  Um, the, if you were physically there, um, so of course, like you're running in your own town.
[07:54.410 --> 08:10.090]  So in my case, I was running in Rotterdam and, uh, you know, sort of be kind of, as you see the sort of scenes, uh, from the, your own town, then you kind of hear this, um, overlay, a sound overlay of, you know, these sort of the other city.
[08:10.090 --> 08:13.930]  So it's kind of, uh, um, um, overlapped, uh, overlap there.
[08:14.730 --> 08:27.570]  Um, this reminds me of, uh, this, uh, science, science fiction novel, um, by, uh, China Meerville, um, who's, uh, the, um, um, he's, he's British person.
[08:27.930 --> 08:40.070]  Um, um, so basically this novel called City and City, um, where, uh, two city-states, um, co-exist at the same time, or in the same, um, geographical area.
[08:40.070 --> 08:44.650]  Um, so this is basically where, but this is where the novel is based in.
[08:45.130 --> 08:58.450]  Um, um, so, you know, these protagonists, like, they're sitting on the same bench in, in this sort of geographically same area, but they belong to, um, different states.
[08:58.950 --> 09:03.770]  So, um, city-states is, like, more like Singapore or, like, Hong Kong and those places.
[09:03.990 --> 09:06.310]  So it's the city and the state at the same time.
[09:06.910 --> 09:11.990]  And so, like, you know, they, so, and how they do that is that, uh, sort of, by, basically, education.
[09:12.570 --> 09:26.230]  So, um, you'll, you know, when you're growing up, you're taught, kind of, what to see and what not to see, um, from the, um, you know, so basically you can only see some stuff from, um, your own region and not from the other country.
[09:26.230 --> 09:28.430]  And so, um, that's how they sort of defined.
[09:31.430 --> 09:36.970]  So, like, if you look at the, um, on the map, like, where I was located and where I got approached.
[09:37.250 --> 09:41.730]  So, um, I was, I was approached by Minami Saniku, this, like, the small municipality in Japan.
[09:41.730 --> 09:45.090]  And then I was, where I was, uh, was in Rotterdam.
[09:45.370 --> 09:50.010]  And, uh, the closest, uh, coastal, uh, city is called The Hague.
[09:50.810 --> 10:02.490]  Um, and so, basically, we came up with this idea of, um, somehow calling off this in-between area, which includes the entire American continent.
[10:03.690 --> 10:21.110]  and to, to, to, to mash it together so that, um, it can kind of form, um, a region, a new kind of, um, a virtual region, where your, um, where two, um, municipalities are separated through, uh, by the common channel.
[10:21.610 --> 10:30.270]  So, like, remarkably, um, that each municipality, um, happened to have nearly, um, exactly the same land area.
[10:30.270 --> 10:35.250]  So, Minami Saniku had this, you know, 163.4, uh, square kilometers.
[10:35.570 --> 10:42.250]  And then The Hague, um, well, I had to actually sort of adjust a little bit to kind of make it really, um, nearly the same.
[10:42.750 --> 10:52.190]  Um, but, yeah, so, basically, um, then this, you can make it sort of into, um, where you go, um, what we call it, I mean, the Minami Saniku Hague Special Art Experiment Zone.
[10:52.330 --> 10:57.290]  So, like, we basically kind of built it on top of the, um, Special Economic Zone.
[10:57.290 --> 11:02.230]  So, it's kind of a mock of this, um, um, uh, essay, essay, SEZ.
[11:05.170 --> 11:12.290]  Um, so, around this time, I also, like, learnt, um, quite a strange, um, concept, um, from this friend of mine.
[11:12.750 --> 11:14.770]  Um, it's called an online lodging.
[11:15.490 --> 11:21.510]  So, um, so you can just first read it, um, what if, um, what the experience was like.
[11:21.510 --> 11:25.650]  Um, virtual stay, um, online trip is definitely worth experiences.
[11:26.070 --> 11:31.330]  This person called Kurikuri-kun, um, stayed, um, in 2020, um, 23rd of May.
[11:31.830 --> 11:34.890]  Um, all things I loved about staying at Fujiyama B&B.
[11:35.370 --> 11:45.430]  Masa, the friendly host, the conversations with others in the common living space, the local Kyoto info, you can now experience all from your home, anywhere in the world.
[11:45.770 --> 11:53.770]  With a sense of adventure, but not that much hope that it would be that enjoyable, I enjoyed one of the Fujiyama B&B's virtual stays.
[11:54.050 --> 11:55.750]  But it turned out to be a lot of fun.
[11:56.150 --> 12:00.390]  Online means it's actually easy to strike up a conversation with others.
[12:00.970 --> 12:08.130]  And with screen sharing, you can share photos and your online presence really easy, enabling common connections to be made quickly.
[12:08.130 --> 12:10.330]  Can't wait to actually stay there again.
[12:10.570 --> 12:16.810]  But I'm hoping that Masa continues with the virtual stays, a great way to experience Kyoto in your living room.
[12:18.090 --> 12:26.810]  Um, so, um, this person, Kurikuri-kun, he even, like, um, rates value and rooms and service everything and basically five stairs.
[12:27.070 --> 12:41.870]  So, um, so, um, what, what they did actually, um, was that, um, um, Zoom conference that sort of simulated, um, the, um, common living space of, like, a hostel.
[12:42.310 --> 12:53.410]  So, you imagine, like, if you're either staying in a hostel and in Kyoto, and you may be, um, well, in the evening or so, um, maybe sitting in this, like, a common living space or something.
[12:53.530 --> 13:01.010]  Then you might get to talk to, um, some of your fellow travelers and sort of, you know, basically, you know, like, where did you go?
[13:01.170 --> 13:02.070]  And then, oh, how was that?
[13:02.210 --> 13:02.750]  And stuff like that.
[13:02.870 --> 13:04.350]  You can, you have this kind of conversations.
[13:05.370 --> 13:14.770]  And so basically, sort of, they simulated this conversational part only online, um, to kind of simulate this experience.
[13:15.350 --> 13:20.950]  Um, they also, I heard that they also showed you a bed and stuff like that through this camera, uh, webcam.
[13:21.250 --> 13:26.070]  Um, but, you know, like, it's just like, well, okay, so this is the bed I would wear or would we sleep in?
[13:26.070 --> 13:27.590]  But, you know, that's, that's about it.
[13:29.890 --> 13:43.370]  So if you think about the, um, what the essence of travel, um, um, this person, um, this photographer person, called Michio Hoshino, um, he was based in Alaska for a very long time.
[13:43.490 --> 13:44.350]  He studied in Alaska.
[13:44.710 --> 13:48.750]  And he, um, also, he's a, he wrote a lot of many essays as well.
[13:49.010 --> 13:58.570]  And in this one of these essays, he says that, um, in order for a person to travel and make the landscape of a new land there on, they need to have someone else intervene.
[13:58.890 --> 14:07.590]  No matter how many countries we visit or many times, how many times we circumnavigate the globe, we'll never be able to feel the vastness of the world on its own.
[14:08.030 --> 14:14.850]  However, when we meet someone and fall in love with that person, the landscape becomes broader and deeper for the first time.
[14:14.850 --> 14:28.170]  Um, so, um, well, what he, what he, what he means is that, well, in my interpretation, um, so basically sort of when you visit somewhere, um, you need to know somebody, uh, from this place.
[14:28.410 --> 14:37.130]  So that, like, you, um, see this, uh, city that you visit for the first time through this person, through the, as a sort of lens.
[14:37.610 --> 14:40.430]  Um, so you kind of never become a tourist, really.
[14:40.430 --> 14:42.730]  So, um, that's basically how I understand.
[14:44.250 --> 14:48.890]  And he also says that, um, something interesting about, like, uh, going to a barber shop.
[14:49.030 --> 14:54.770]  So, and this is my own theory, but if you want to smell the local people, when you are traveling, go to a barber shop.
[14:55.070 --> 15:03.650]  I can't really explain why, but when he's sitting in a barber's chair with the townspeople, getting my hair cut and shaved, I somehow feel, feel like I'm a local.
[15:04.770 --> 15:05.170]  Um,
[15:09.630 --> 15:17.270]  uh, the renowned travel writer, um, person, called Pico Aya, who spends, uh, most of his time between Japan and the U.S.
[15:17.730 --> 15:20.830]  Um, he says something about, um, Kyoto as well.
[15:21.230 --> 15:28.670]  Um, so basically, um, he says that the, um, the other thing I'd recommend is just to go to a McDonald's outlet, even in Kyoto.
[15:29.050 --> 15:35.770]  You'll find moon viewing burgers on the menu in September in the honor of the traditional harvest moon.
[15:36.010 --> 15:41.510]  You'll encounter chicken tatsuta burgers and bacon potato pies and iced tea made of oil grey.
[15:42.470 --> 15:50.950]  And among customers who are usually drelling and redressed and beautifully re-mannered, you'll see that even McDonald's becomes somewhere as, as Japanese, as a traditional inn.
[15:54.730 --> 15:58.770]  So all these things, um, points towards, uh, two things.
[15:59.130 --> 16:06.270]  Um, to really travel somewhere, um, you need to know, um, somebody from the place.
[16:06.270 --> 16:15.270]  And also, like, some, like, going, going, having a haircut and those, like, bodily acts will help experience, enhancing this experience.
[16:18.390 --> 16:28.170]  Um, so we did this open call, um, uh, for some creators and artists to make, uh, throw, um, online lodging experiences.
[16:28.430 --> 16:32.130]  Um, so this project was funded by the, um, the Embassy of the Netherlands.
[16:32.130 --> 16:36.550]  Um, so, like, this is, like, the cards that I made.
[16:36.830 --> 16:44.510]  Um, I was the coordinator, um, I called myself coordinator and, uh, approaching people, um, basically with this card.
[16:44.710 --> 16:52.990]  And so with this logo, um, from the, the Embassy, I looked like some sort of, uh, diplomat person from this newly set up territory.
[16:53.030 --> 16:59.730]  So that was, like, that was also kind of one of my aims to make it look, make myself look a bit more official.
[17:02.270 --> 17:10.390]  Um, so, um, I, uh, well, I looked, uh, went to many graduation shows, um, in the, within the Netherlands.
[17:10.650 --> 17:13.450]  And I met two, uh, interesting young artists.
[17:13.690 --> 17:15.530]  Um, one of them was Ida Deriks.
[17:16.010 --> 17:21.910]  Um, she's originally from Aruba, uh, which is, um, a part of the, uh, Kingdom of the Netherlands.
[17:22.170 --> 17:26.190]  It's actually located in South America, uh, next to Venezuela.
[17:26.190 --> 17:28.350]  Um, it's a very small country.
[17:28.550 --> 17:40.490]  Um, so what she made was this, um, um, you know, like those, the, uh, photo stand-ins, uh, which you find, um, in, uh, in a sort of tourist spot.
[17:40.490 --> 17:45.210]  So basically, um, there's a, um, normally like a photograph or some illustration.
[17:45.450 --> 17:50.310]  Then there's like, um, um, um, hole, um, cut out.
[17:50.630 --> 17:54.790]  Um, and then you can sort of fit your face into that and get, get a photograph taken.
[17:55.110 --> 17:58.970]  So, um, what she was doing was that kind of an inverted version of that.
[17:58.970 --> 18:02.070]  So basically there's like a green screen and then with a hole in it.
[18:02.330 --> 18:06.650]  And then you put your face in and then you get, uh, photograph taken.
[18:06.990 --> 18:10.990]  Then you actually then walk to this, uh, space next to it.
[18:11.310 --> 18:14.270]  Then, um, then you find this like artificial beach.
[18:14.870 --> 18:19.370]  And then sort of you look around, oh, okay, I arrived at this beach.
[18:19.610 --> 18:26.690]  Um, and you just find that, find that, find out that actually, um, your face is embedded right in the middle of the sun.
[18:27.030 --> 18:30.430]  So it's like a, um, in a tourist, um, place.
[18:30.650 --> 18:37.830]  Normally, okay, you are expecting to see, um, something more exotic and, you know, foreign, um, uh, for yourself.
[18:38.030 --> 18:44.490]  But you actually find, uh, the most, one of the most familiar things, um, that is your face.
[18:44.610 --> 18:45.270]  Your own face.
[18:46.690 --> 18:52.390]  So the other artist I, um, found very interesting is that, um, this person I'm called, uh, Peter Fekely.
[18:52.390 --> 18:59.170]  Um, he, um, he, um, he lived by the side, uh, on the coast of the, uh, The Hague.
[18:59.350 --> 19:01.350]  Um, this, uh, coastal city in the Netherlands.
[19:01.670 --> 19:10.270]  And he, um, since he lived there, sorry, he was actually, uh, he accumulating a lot of video footages, um, on the coast.
[19:10.450 --> 19:14.130]  And he basically sort of made sort of video collage.
[19:14.530 --> 19:17.010]  Um, let me check and show.
[19:28.960 --> 19:36.540]  So what he mainly did was kind of matching, um, the speed of the clouds and the speed of the waves.
[19:36.840 --> 19:42.020]  And so this, well, the, in terms of the medium itself, so it's, I would say it's quite traditional.
[19:42.260 --> 19:46.560]  So the, um, the, um, you know, basically video and the projection base.
[19:46.560 --> 19:57.300]  But however, the, somehow this combination of this, the speeds, um, of the clouds and waves, um, matched together, made some sort of, uh, quite a surreal experience.
[20:09.910 --> 20:15.290]  So, um, how we approach this, um, this, um, residence, um, program.
[20:15.290 --> 20:24.990]  So, um, I thought that he, it would be good to actually, to, um, write on top of, like, what he already created.
[20:25.170 --> 20:26.750]  So, uh, for his graduation show.
[20:26.850 --> 20:32.910]  So he, but we suggested to make, take some footage from this region, um, called Minami Sanriku.
[20:33.110 --> 20:39.470]  So, um, we found, uh, this person who, um, has some filming experience, uh, on the phone.
[20:39.470 --> 20:43.130]  And, uh, well, we did this virtual, um, film direction.
[20:43.590 --> 20:51.070]  So, um, um, we took advantage of the high, um, um, iPhone penetration rate in Japan.
[20:51.250 --> 20:57.230]  So everyone has an iPhone, uh, in Japan, even if they're based in a very remote village or something like that.
[20:57.370 --> 21:02.090]  So, um, in, when we filmed in last year, um, was it last year?
[21:02.290 --> 21:03.130]  Oh, the year before.
[21:03.690 --> 21:07.750]  Um, um, there was, like, the newest device was iPhone 12 mini.
[21:07.750 --> 21:10.830]  And, uh, we, well, he had that as well.
[21:11.130 --> 21:11.890]  And the iPhone 12 mini.
[21:12.530 --> 21:24.210]  And, uh, and so what we did was basically sort of, uh, we already, uh, we asked the artists to look through the, um, area on Google street view and trying to find some interesting spots.
[21:24.350 --> 21:35.530]  So basically, so on this day of the, uh, filming, we, um, drove to this actual place and sort of, we put up, put the zoom up and sort of, we did this, like, um, a bit of showing.
[21:35.530 --> 21:40.330]  And so we decided to sort of angle and everything and, you know, did the final filming and checking.
[21:42.150 --> 21:45.910]  So this is one of the footages, um, that's, uh, produced.
[21:46.070 --> 21:48.830]  Like, it's a place called Cape Kamiwarisaki.
[21:49.530 --> 21:54.190]  Um, this is, uh, the other footage that's being produced.
[21:54.410 --> 21:57.230]  Um, the, it's called the Arashima Island.
[21:57.230 --> 22:03.250]  So it's like a very small islands that you can, uh, which you can walk to from the main, um, island.
[22:05.070 --> 22:08.290]  And we also did this, uh, virtual sketch, what we call.
[22:08.450 --> 22:15.170]  Um, so, um, there's, uh, quite a famous, uh, pasture, a pasture pig farm in this region.
[22:15.170 --> 22:22.730]  So we, um, asked the same person to take a photograph of some, of the pigs and sort of the, the others on this side day.
[22:23.270 --> 22:24.910]  Um, she, she paints stuff.
[22:25.070 --> 22:29.010]  So, you know, she actually sort of made some paintings, um, based on those pigs.
[22:30.270 --> 22:43.890]  Um, she also went to, um, the, one of the most, uh, famous tourist spots in the Netherlands called Xansis Hans, um, and he, she did, she put this, uh, 360 videos, um, um, films.
[22:46.610 --> 23:01.110]  Um, so, um, so this, this was like my idea, but, um, um, um, I wanted to, um, suddenly this thing, um, um, um, called the COVID-19 antigen test kit was, um, introduced into our lives.
[23:01.590 --> 23:05.410]  Um, this, you know, box that you can kind of order online.
[23:05.410 --> 23:13.570]  And then it comes with custom swaps and, you know, QR calls and those things just, you know, suddenly got introduced to our lives.
[23:14.150 --> 23:29.170]  And, um, so we basically sort of, uh, what I wanted to do is to somehow, um, to, you know, if there's a lot, like kind of hole, uh, in our reality that's been made, then why not, like, trying to sort of, um, play with that rather.
[23:29.170 --> 23:42.570]  So, uh, also the idea of, uh, the connecting somehow to this, uh, Google, just to a Google Cardboard, uh, which is, which was discontinued in March, uh, last year.
[23:43.170 --> 23:50.870]  And so, um, well, discontinued meaning, meaning, means that there's a lot more, um, the, um, designs available.
[23:51.550 --> 24:07.210]  Um, so like a kind of, uh, you know, like a try, I'm basically trying to find, um, um, to sort of design that actually fits nearly, that's nearly identical to, uh, a, um, travel, uh, test kit basically.
[24:09.010 --> 24:19.690]  So, um, this is the, um, resulting, um, package, um, that's, uh, placed right next to this, um, the COVID-19 test kit.
[24:20.370 --> 24:27.410]  Um, where it is, is actually was the, um, the, so it was like actually Google Cardboard, basically.
[24:27.590 --> 24:30.470]  So, you know, basically it nearly looks identical.
[24:30.750 --> 24:45.530]  And then you buy this thing instead of a, well, normally like in the COVID travel protocol, you buy this travel kit, and you get this thing delivered to your house, and you get tested, and you have to have, and there's a negative result, then you go on to the travel.
[24:45.850 --> 24:52.710]  But in our, uh, package, um, you buy this thing, and it gets posted to you.
[24:52.890 --> 24:58.530]  And then you opened, and you assemble the headset, and you go directly into the travel.
[24:58.830 --> 25:03.270]  So that's how you basically, you know, um, skip this, like, this process.
[25:06.230 --> 25:12.030]  So this is the, um, the demo of, um, the, um, one of the apps.
[25:24.000 --> 25:30.280]  Yeah, you start from the sauna, because there's a, quite a big, um, sauna boom in Japan right now.
[25:30.460 --> 25:33.460]  So just like, you only want to do right on top of that.
[26:01.420 --> 26:15.820]  So it's like a, sort of the, um, it's basically, um, the, some of the, uh, image, um, images from the Netherlands and Japan combined in, um, in, in the, in one scene.
[26:16.020 --> 26:17.960]  So that's basically, um, what it was.
[26:18.300 --> 26:20.740]  And you can navigate through these, um, buttons.
[26:56.220 --> 27:00.160]  Normally there's, this main, main, mainland you can see from this view.
[27:00.300 --> 27:05.560]  But you see this actually, the Netherlands from, um, this island.
[27:05.960 --> 27:07.440]  So that's...
[27:13.950 --> 27:16.500]  It's like two statues combined in one scene.
[27:16.710 --> 27:19.740]  So if one, the one on the right is a statue from Japan.
[27:20.000 --> 27:24.210]  And the other one, um, is actually the, some statue from the Netherlands.
[27:24.210 --> 27:27.620]  Um, so combining one scene.
[27:52.170 --> 27:57.550]  Then you hit this, um, last spot, um, which is the, uh, the Cape Kamioriseki.
[27:57.710 --> 28:00.310]  So where we did this virtual film direction.
[29:25.960 --> 29:39.740]  So where you see actually is the, the, it's not the actual, um, the sun from Japan, but actually the, it's the sunrise, um, from the Netherlands that appeared in between this cape.
[29:55.610 --> 29:58.450]  So, um, this is the other app, uh, that we made.
[29:58.610 --> 30:10.670]  Um, so, um, we, um, we wanted to, uh, also, like, um, make, made an extension of the, the, uh, the artist's work that, um, that's produced for the graduation show.
[30:10.770 --> 30:18.330]  So, um, um, so, um, we basically sort of virtualized the, um, photo standing experience.
[30:20.590 --> 30:24.770]  And we put into this 360 degrees video.
[30:25.710 --> 30:38.800]  So if you first open the app, and then you, um, fit your face in, um, like you do with, with normally with the, um, um, photo standing, but it's like a green screen.
[30:39.020 --> 30:42.340]  Um, that's exactly what the artist did for the, uh, graduation show.
[31:03.760 --> 31:06.680]  And then you go into the scene, um, and this is it.
[31:06.780 --> 31:10.420]  It's outer scars, uh, the, one of the most famous storage spots in the Netherlands.
[31:11.020 --> 31:14.100]  And then you see this, uh, the, pigs walking around.
[31:21.240 --> 31:27.200]  And if you look closely, and you find your face, um, embedded right in the middle, of the, of the pig.
[31:34.750 --> 31:39.110]  Um, so the, um, so this is how, well, how I designed the headset.
[31:39.270 --> 31:43.350]  So it was, uh, um, already found this existing, the, um, pattern.
[31:44.070 --> 31:48.230]  Um, and this was like from a Canadian university, I think.
[31:48.410 --> 31:56.970]  Um, so it basically sort of took me more, um, time to find the right supplier and the right design, uh, for this, um, experience.
[31:57.230 --> 31:59.850]  Um, than actually sort of designing.
[32:00.330 --> 32:06.890]  Um, um, so this is a team that, um, we, uh, worked with.
[32:07.070 --> 32:10.130]  So, um, we are, like, uh, spread it, like, all over the world.
[32:10.350 --> 32:13.930]  So, um, two developers were, uh, in Athens, in Greece.
[32:14.590 --> 32:19.130]  Um, the, um, and the other, uh, Greek guy was based in Sweden.
[32:19.510 --> 32:24.850]  Um, um, and, and a friend of mine, and how he was doing PhD in Japan.
[32:25.030 --> 32:25.970]  Uh, he's Dutch guy.
[32:26.230 --> 32:27.310]  Um, he was in Japan.
[32:27.530 --> 32:29.790]  So we worked together like this.
[32:31.330 --> 32:32.650]  Um, so, yeah.
[32:32.850 --> 32:37.770]  And this is the, uh, basically all the people that supported, um, my project.
[32:38.010 --> 32:48.890]  And, um, uh, there's all the funders, um, the embassy and the municipality, and then some, um, the, uh, called, uh, yeah, the funder called EU Japan Fest.
[32:49.150 --> 32:50.950]  Um, um, yeah.
[32:51.330 --> 32:51.490]  Thanks.
[32:51.490 --> 32:54.110]  Thanks so much, uh, for, for the, for the talk.
[33:01.550 --> 33:05.710]  If you have any questions, come over here to this microphone to ask them, please.
[33:24.570 --> 33:26.610]  I actually have the package here, actually.
[33:34.410 --> 33:36.570]  Is the software available on Android?
[33:38.170 --> 33:40.810]  Um, but, uh, can, can you say again?
[33:41.650 --> 33:43.750]  Uh, are the apps available on Android?
[33:44.390 --> 33:44.670]  Uh, yeah.
[33:44.850 --> 33:46.030]  Both iOS and Android.
[33:46.290 --> 33:46.530]  That's available.
[33:46.750 --> 33:47.590]  Are they, they're in the Play Store?
[33:48.590 --> 33:48.750]  Yeah.
[33:49.190 --> 33:49.230]  Yeah.
[33:49.450 --> 33:49.850]  Oh, awesome.
[33:50.210 --> 33:50.330]  Yeah.
[33:50.390 --> 33:50.550]  Thank you.
[33:52.050 --> 33:53.210]  Um, so, yeah.
[33:53.770 --> 33:55.830]  Um, so, um, can you maybe put the light up, maybe?
[34:09.030 --> 34:09.470]  Yeah.
[34:09.590 --> 34:09.830]  Thank you.
[34:10.050 --> 34:10.190]  Yeah.
[34:10.590 --> 34:14.350]  So, this is the actual, um, the, uh, the turbo package.
[34:14.950 --> 34:21.810]  So, um, well, hopefully it looks identical to the, um, COVID-19 antigen test kit.
[34:21.810 --> 34:26.810]  So, um, where in fact it's, um, um, foldable headset.
[34:27.290 --> 34:28.730]  And you assemble, um,
[34:33.240 --> 34:34.060]  like this.
[34:37.360 --> 34:37.900]  Oops.
[34:39.580 --> 34:40.120]  Yeah.
[34:40.440 --> 34:41.560]  And then it becomes a headset.
[34:42.360 --> 34:53.300]  Then, um, you basically, uh, there's a QR code here, uh, which you can scan and then sort of, you basically, um, yeah, you then, oops, sorry.
[34:53.780 --> 34:58.300]  You just fall into it and then, um, yeah, start dropping.
[35:06.440 --> 35:07.560]  Is there any other questions?
[35:29.820 --> 35:30.260]  Thanks.
[35:30.780 --> 35:31.800]  Uh, thanks for the talk.
[35:32.060 --> 35:35.400]  Uh, would you consider extending this project to any other pair of cities?
[35:35.660 --> 35:43.440]  I know that this pair was particularly, you know, important for your situation, but I could see this being really cool for other places too.
[35:44.500 --> 35:57.080]  Yeah, like, uh, actually I got, like, asked by many people, like, if you, if I'm interested to actually make into it like a more, um, um, um, like, kind of series, make it into a series series or something.
[35:57.260 --> 36:12.180]  But I, for me personally, I'm not super interested to actually sort of, you know, like, uh, it, it just happened to be in this way for me, like, you know, like a sort of, um, and that's why, like, how it's interesting sort of, you know, because it's like based on,
[36:12.180 --> 36:22.480]  um, contingency Yeah, if I once started to make it into a series, then I don't find this medium interesting anymore.
[36:22.640 --> 36:26.340]  I don't know, it's like all the app development process, everything.
[36:29.120 --> 36:32.780]  I would lose my interest in working on that, I guess.
[36:33.720 --> 36:34.700]  Yeah, thanks.
[36:57.270 --> 36:58.050]  Yeah, thanks.
[37:01.710 --> 37:02.370]  Thank you.
[37:02.750 --> 37:03.610]  Yeah, thanks a lot.