Virtual Body Festival
VIRTUAL NIPPON COLOSSEUM

A digital performance and archival project of human body data to introduce the Japanese body to the world! Tom Kawada (AR 3 Bros.) will present a stage model that can be viewed from anywhere in the world, and convey the value of the body that holds experience to the future.

Entertainment, art and sports are gathered in one track. Butoh dancers, up-and-coming dancers, para-athletics with prosthetic legs, teenage professional skateboarders, Japanese bizarre festivals, and the rhythm of Japanese drums will appear one after another in line with the rakugo storytelling. It will be exclusively distributed by a special application utilizing AR technology and also exclusively by THEATER for ALL.
In addition, an archive practice project to record and memorize culture from the perspective of human body data and a major relay conference will be held. Explore the possibilities of new art and performance created by technologies such as 3D data and motion capture.

To you who are watching

I will confess my personal thoughts from the beginning,

I think the Olympics didn’t start.

Yes, nothing has started yet.
Culturally successful people in this country were preparing for the festival with all their might, but with mysterious power they disappeared from the stage one by one. Then, the virus that hit the world came, and the day came anti-climax, only time passed, and what remained for us now is an empty feeling of defeat.
In reality, sports, culture, everything should have been a festival that people from all areas could participate in. It’s not a festival that has a high hurdle to participate. It should have started without any distinction.
It’s possible to have the best physical record at this point, a festival that combines the Olympics and Paralympics, sports and art, entertainment and underground, and music and non-music.
This time, as a developer, I implemented an augmented reality image of jumping over all the walls. The digital archive of the experienced body is also a letter to the future.
We hope that “VIRTUAL NIPPON COLOSSEUM” will be one of the materials for thinking about your future.

Tom Kawada (AR 3 Bros. eldest son / Comprehensive production)

You can check the individual profiles of the performing artists here.

In this project, “Japanese human body to be remembered now” is digitally archived as 3D data and motion capture data. Some archives are open to the public for anyone to view and use.

Data that records an object in three dimensions. In this project, the performer’s body data is recorded using the full-body 3D scanner “3D GATEWAY” that enables three-dimensional expression with images captured by about * cameras from all directions in 360 degrees, and photogrammetry is performed. Created with the technology of.
It can also be used for AR, VR, and other avatar expressions in the Metaverse space.

Motion capture is a technology for recording human “movement” by recording the position and movement of parts that are characteristic of the movement of the human body, such as joints. A mark called a “marker” is attached to a joint, etc., and its position and movement are measured in three dimensions and recorded as data. Archived as FBX (Filmbox) format data.
It can also be used in combination with various 3D data.
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