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Wake up among flowers in Japan’s first botanical garden resort

• Elliot Hale
  Sep 26, 2025
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Enjoy glamping among blossoms, soaking in herbal hot springs, and shooting virtual dinosaurs hiding among the trees on your next weekend away.

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• Japan
• (accommodation • AR • barbecue • botanical garden • COK • glamping • hot spring • Ibaraki • nature • onsen • resort • Rinne • sauna • The Botanical Resort Rinne • tourism • travel • zipline)

AR sport Hado added to Shizuoka high school curriculum

• Master Blaster
  Jun 11, 2025

Shoot fireballs for your health!

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• Japan
• (AR • gym class • Hado • health • PE class • schools • sports • technology • video games)

Buddhist metaverse “Teraverse” in development at Kyoto University, includes AI Buddha

• Master Blaster
  Sep 14, 2022

I guess you could call it a meta-metaverse.

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• Japan
• (AI • AR • Buddhabot • Buddhism • Kyoto University • metaverse • religion • technology • Teraverse)

Traditional Japanese ceramics given new life in AR, delivered straight to your web browser for free

• Master Blaster
  Jul 15, 2021

Add a touch of class to your home or video game.

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• Japan
• (3-D modeling • 3D modelling • AR • art • ceramics • cool • culture • Fukuoka • Hasami-yaki • Nagasaki • Steampunk Digital • technology • tradition • Wankoubou)

Experience the cherry blossoms early this year with AR flower art and Morinaga foods

• Dale Roll
  Feb 20, 2021

A popular digital art exhibition arrives in the palm of your hand this year!

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• Japan
• (AR • augmented reality • augmented reality mobile game • cherry blossom treats • cherry blossoms • Morinaga • Morinaga Milk • sakura)

Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit: Is it as cool as it looks in the trailer?【Review】

• Dale Roll
  Oct 20, 2020

The answer is a resounding yes!

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• Japan
• (AR • augmented reality • Mario Kart • Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit • nintendo • nintendo switch • Super Mario • technology • video games • vidoe games)

You play the newest Pokémon game, Pokémon Smile, by brushing your teeth in real life【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 18, 2020

Gotta brush ‘em all!

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• Internet, Japan
• (AR • clever • cool • cute • health • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon Smile • teeth • video)

Fukuoka Museum offers Japanese art treasures right in your own home via AR

• Master Blaster
  May 21, 2020

Why not virtually spruce up your living room with some 16th century samurai armor?

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• Internet, Japan
• (AR • art • cool • culture • Fukuoka • Fukuoka City Museum • history • samurai • Steampunk Digital • technology • Tokugawa Ieyasu • Yoichi Kojima)

Ginza Sony Park offers chance to be a Ghostbuster in AR ghost hunt

• Master Blaster
  Oct 17, 2019

If there’s something strange in your neighborhood of Ginza, who you gonna call?

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• Japan
• (AR • events • Ghostbusters • Ginza • Ginza Sony Park • movies • Sony • Sony Pictures Entertainment • Tokyo)

Japanese kids can get boo-boos treated by augmented reality anime characters in Bandai-d form

• Katy Kelly
  Feb 2, 2019

These Bandai band-aids come with an app that lets Super Sentai or PreCure characters wish away the pain. Aww!

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• Japan
• (anime • AR • augmented reality • bandages • Bandai • cool • kids • PreCure • Pretty Cure • Rysoulger • Super Sentai)

Anime-style magic circles summon vocabulary for you in this language-learning app from Japan【Vid】

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 13, 2018

Free app Spell Master turns you into a linguistic sorcerer.

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• Japan
• (apps • AR • augmented reality • awesome • clever • cool • learning English • learning languages • linguistics • magic circles • technology • video)

A totally new Pokémon GO experience using both sights and sounds opens in Tokyo

• Master Blaster
  Oct 15, 2018

Would you like to be, in Roppongi, in a Pokémon GO AR Garden, in the shade?

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• Japan
• (AR • event • Mori Garden • Niantic • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • Pokemon GO AR Garden • Roppongi • Roppongi Hills • smartphone games • Tokyo • video games • VR)

Nintendo fans make amazing Luigi’s Mansion AR game by tinkering with Nintendo Labo【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 3, 2018

If Nintendo won’t make a sequel, you can make one yourself, and turn your home into a haunted house, for just a few bucks.

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• (AR • augmented reality • awesome • cool • luigi's mansion • nintendo • Nintendo Labo • nintendo switch • video • video games)

YouTuber takes horror to the next level by recreating Sadako’s spooky TV screen exit in AR【Video】

• Krista Rogers
  Mar 5, 2018

There are many practical uses for the Apple ARKit, and scaring the living daylights out of your children is most certainly one of them. 

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• (app • Apple • Apple ARKit • AR • Horror • iOS • Ringu • Sadako • The Ring • video)

Anime girls will keep you company as you eat your instant ramen with new AR promotion

• Casey Baseel
  Sep 21, 2016

So cute you could slurp them right up?

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• Japan
• (anime • AR • augmented reality • cup ramen • food • funny • Instant Ramen • Noodles • ramen • weird)

Mikuture, the Hatsune Miku app that brings our favorite CG idol into all the pictures【Photos】

• KK Miller
  Jan 27, 2016

The Vocaloid star has been secretly hiding in your smart phone, just waiting for the right application to let her loose.

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• (apps • AR • augmented reality • Hatsune Miku • Mikuture • Smartphones • vocaloids)

Sony shows off PlayStation 4 augmented reality with rubber ducks, dinosaurs, and Hatsune Miku

• Philip Kendall
  Apr 30, 2014

As we’ve said before, the PlayStation 4’s PlayStation Camera is a woefully underused device. Gamers who enjoy streaming footage of the games they play often use their cameras to capture their own expressions and add real-time commentary, and upcoming virtual reality headset Project Morpheus will make use of the unit to provide additional head tracking, but otherwise it gets relatively little love.

Fortunately, Sony Japan looks to be working on content that will inspire a few more PlayStation 4 owners to plug in their cameras. In two videos released last week, Sony staff show off their experiments with augmented reality, which combines real-world footage with computer-generated images that respond to a number of stimuli. These may only be tech demos, but the sight of a miniature T-rex hiding in the darkness, a man decanting water (complete with rubber duck!) between two virtual boxes, and even a short performance from a tiny Hatsune Miku on the living room rug left us thirsty for more.

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• (AR • augmented reality • demo • Playstation 4 • PlayStation Camera • technology • video)

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  3. Pachinko parlor operator arrested for not obscuring the act of gambling well enough
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  8. New Studio Ghibli anime gets extended run at the only cinema in Japan where it’s being shown
  9. Tokyo train station will play Godzilla theme song as new departure melody
  10. Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man will be removed and replaced with a new-look sign

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  1. Japan announces sudden 400-percent increase in visa fees for foreigners entering the country
  2. Japan’s human washing machines will go on sale to general public, demos to be held in Tokyo
  3. Studio Ghibli has a new anime out, and there’s only one place in the world where you can see it
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  7. Tokyo subway installing new ticket gates that don’t accept payment through Suica or other IC cards
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