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Fig. 5.16
Miku Miku Soine (Image Courtesy Nico Douga 2013)
Fig. 5.17 AR Shot from
Hatsune Miku Project Diva F
(Image Courtesy Crypton,
Sega 2013)
bed partner, calling them “Master” and comforting them if there is restlessness in
the middle of the night.
Awkward at this may seem, if we return to the gesture of locating the subject
in space using environmental AR, we find that there is a second Miku-as-AR-
girlfriend game for the PS Vita, entitled Hatsune Miku Project Diva F (Tolentino
2012 ) . The “song-masher” game (as I call the genre of musical coordination games
from Dance Dance Revolution to Guitar Hero ) includes a markerless AR app that
allows Miku to hang out in your apartment, as seen in Fig. 5.17 , and sit on your
bed. Is this the isolate hikikomori's dream, or as Josh Tolentino states in Japanator,
“Mindless waifu (“ waifu” being a fan term for idolizing an anime character as a
possible mate) gimmickry.” Hatsune Miku Project Diva F is definitely in the area of
Environmental AR, but in all these examples, the question remains whether AR
suggests what Bruce Sterling calls a “design fiction”(Sterling 2013 ) to alleviate
technological isolation?
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