by On July 14, NTT DoCoMo started offering “XR City,” a new sensation street play AR service that allows you to experience a new world where digital and the natural world are fused using a smartphone.
XR City is a service in which AR content suitable for the location is displayed when the smartphone downloads the dedicated application “XR City,” which is held over the user’s service area.
The service areas at the start are Saitama Prefectural Office (Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture), Shinjuku Central Park (Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo), Hisaya-Odori Park (Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture), HEP FIVE, Navio Dining, Hankyu Third Avenue, Hankyu. 32nd Avenue Sky Garden Dining (Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture), Kobe Hankyu (Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture), Hyogo Prefectural Awajishima Park Anime Park “Nijigen Nomori” (Awaji City, Hyogo Prefecture), Canal City Hakata (Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture), seven areas in total It creates new value and provides an experience that makes going out more fun, convenient, and profitable.
In addition, since it also supports AR technology that does not depend on a specific place, such as plane recognition and marker recognition, it is possible to provide content in various positions, whether outdoors or indoors.
In XR City, the theme is “AR filter,” which allows you to take pictures and videos that look good on SNS using AR content displayed in the space, “mystery solving content” that collaborated with SCRAP, which is popular in real escape games, and SDGs. Content, content where you can experience role-playing games, “city tour content” where you can enjoy the story of the drama while walking around the city, content where you can enjoy each with AR, and whether you have entered the world of the popular game “Shironeko Project NEW WORLD’S” (COLOPL) It offers limited-time content that allows you to experience something like this, and tie-up content with the movies “Sonic the Movie / Sonic VS Knuckles,” “Chain Chronicle,” and “Phantasy Star Online 2”.
The content provided will be expanded in the future, and we plan to support glass-type devices in the future.
In August, Tokyo Dome City (Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo), Hareza Ikebukuro and surrounding areas (Toshima-Ku, Tokyo), and Mitsui Shopping Park LaLaport TOKYO-BAY (Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture) will be added to the service area. It is planned to expand to 15 locations by March 2023 and more than 200 areas by March 2027.
