KDDI CORPORATION, Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture, and Future Design Shibuya, a general incorporated association, have built a culture and art creation project that connects Toyooka City and the regions and cities of Shibuya using au 5G.
As this project, we will hold a dance workshop "Remote Live Shop (Note 1)" and "Remote Talk Session" with the aim of revitalizing the region of Toyooka City.
Toyooka City, which aims to realize a "small world city -Local & Global City-", is promoting "town development of theater with depth" as one of the measures to promote measures against population decline. KDDI and Toyooka City signed a comprehensive agreement (Note 2) on September 21, 2016, and have implemented various collaborations utilizing KDDI assets, such as providing a new theater experience at the "Toyooka Theater Festival 2020". (Note 3).
This time, we invited world-famous dance performer Kento Mori to Toyooka City, and utilized au 5G to connect Toyooka City and Shibuya with a remote live shop and cutting-edge real-time motion capture technology (real people and objects). We performed a dance performance using (technology to record motion digitally) and AR (Augmented Reality). Furthermore, on December 25, 2020, the appeal of Toyooka City will be disseminated nationwide by holding a talk session by Kento Mori and experts from Toyooka City and Shibuya on the future image of regional and urban cooperation and the possibility of 5G. I will continue to do it.
KDDI will continue to contribute to Toyooka City's "drama town development with depth" by utilizing 5G and providing new expression methods with various partners such as Future Design Shibuya. Furthermore, we will strive to revitalize the region of Toyooka City by effectively utilizing the resources of both parties, such as online education utilizing 5G and ICT technologies.
Remote live shop by Kento Mori & AR Dance in Kinosaki International Arts Center
Kinosaki International Arts Center in Toyooka City and SUPER DOMMUNE (Shibuya Parco 9F) in Shibuya will be connected by 5G, and under the guidance of Mr. Kento Mori, elementary school students in Toyooka City and Future Design Shibuya will be in charge of the project Next. A total of 24 elementary school students from Generations (Note 4) held a dance lesson on December 19, 2020 to communicate with each other in real time.
In addition, on December 20, 2020, we showed off cutting-edge real-time motion capture technology and a dance performance by Kento Mori and children by AR.
Location: Kinosaki International Arts Center Hall
Co-sponsored by: KDDI CORPORATION, Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture, Future Design Shibuya
Lecturer: Kento Mori
Participants: About 14 elementary school students living in Toyooka City, about 10 elementary school students in Shibuya
Special cooperation: Japan Airlines Co., Ltd.
Remote talk session "Culture x 5G connects, future possibilities through collaboration between local and urban areas"
A talk session on the theme of "Possibilities of 5G utilization and cooperation between regions and cities" will be held on December 25, 2020, and will be distributed on the Toyooka City official YouTube channel (https://youtu.be/ymwyLqZyhI8). To do. At the same time, we will also deliver documentary videos of the remote live shop and AR dance performance that were held from December 19, 2020 to December 20, 2020.
Co-sponsored by: Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture, Future Design Shibuya
Speakers: Shinko Osada (Director / Deputy Secretary General of Future Design Shibuya), Takayasu Kuroda (stu CEO & Founder Co., Ltd.), Kento Mori, Mikiya Taguchi (Director of Kinosaki International Arts Center)
Moderator: Takehiko Taniguchi (Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture, Chief of the Great Exchange Division)
* Speakers are subject to change.
(Note 1) A special dance workshop where you can directly learn the world-recognized expression methods from dance artist Kento Mori.
(Note 2) September 21, 2016 KDDI News Release
Concluding a comprehensive agreement between Toyooka City and KDDI for the purpose of regional revitalization
-Efforts to revitalize tourism utilizing big data and selling special products utilizing "au WALLET Market"-
http://news.kddi.com/kddi/corporate/newsrelease/2016/09/21/2042.html
(Note 3) KDDI News Release on September 9, 2020
Toyooka City, KDDI, and Toyooka Theater Festival 2020 provide a new theater experience through multi-angle distribution
-Supporting theater companies that are economically affected by QR money thrown using au PAY-https://news.kddi.com/kddi/corporate/newsrelease/2020/09/09/4669.html
(Note 4) A street sports platform that was launched in 2018 and is open to young people, including Shibuya residents, for the purpose of enlightening the promotion of street sports and the improvement of manners. It is being developed as a year-round project, including street sports competitions for U-15 (junior high school students and younger), online dance lesson video distribution, and school business.
