Peripherals
Virtual Webcam Girlfriend Is Entrancing, If a Little Perverted
Posted by Mark Wilson at 7:30 AM on November 4, 2008
From a technical standpoint, the Dennou AR Figures virtual 3D girlfriends, first announced a few months back, aren't much more impressive than PlayStation 3's Eye of Judgment. You install webcam software to that when your camera detects the special bundled cube onscreen, it fills a 3D companion into your environment. But when that 3D companion is a girl who can be dressed, tickled or, errr, spanked, the concept is born anew.
Since the demo clip is ever so slightly NSFW, we've tucked it after the jump.
Currently released in Japan, you can pick up your own Dennou AR figure for $US125 at an export-friendly store. Just don't tell us about it if you do...or your loved ones, or your friends, or even your virtual girlfriend. [HimeyaShop via Geekologie]

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bpapa9013
Posted 9:54 AM 4/11/08
@Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another du...: Let me know when that expansion pack come out, I'll have my cc ready!
bpapa9013
Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 9:52 AM 4/11/08
@Lite: Get outta my head! lol
Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude
Monty
Posted 9:43 AM 4/11/08
Has anyone done a study to see how many pedophiles there are in Japan? Not that I would venture to guess -- I am just saying, it seems like a nice spot for a pedophile to live.
Monty
strider_mt2k
Posted 9:42 AM 4/11/08
Where do I get the Dino Door?
strider_mt2k
Lite
Posted 9:41 AM 4/11/08
What, no tentacle attachment for this? Worthless!
Lite
Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 9:41 AM 4/11/08
"Is a little perverted."
No, this is A LOT perverted. In fact the only thing it needs is the tentacle option to complete the package...
Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude
Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine
Posted 9:38 AM 4/11/08
@FrankenPC: Yeah, at least when I run over gangbangers in Grand Theft Auto, I'm making the virtual world a better, funnier place.
Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine
FrankenPC
Posted 9:35 AM 4/11/08
Sooooo let me get this straight.
You torment a virtual schoolgirl until she crumbles in the corner crying. Then you give her a teddy bear and she's happy again...
And some people say guns in video games are sending the wrong message.
FrankenPC
Lite
Posted 10:19 AM 4/11/08
@Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another du...: Besides, lap dances are so much better when the stripper is crying.
Lite
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 10:19 AM 4/11/08
@FrankenPC: I agree, this is a bit twisted. Thankfully not many of the folks that would buy this thing can actually get girlfriends.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
MasterYong
Posted 10:18 AM 4/11/08
@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: This.
Why is it every time I see anything related to "romance" in Japanese pop-culture I get the impression that a Japanese guy's idea of a turn-on is a girl that wont stop screaming "No! Please stop! You're hurting me!".....
Seems kinda sick IMHO. But, then again- who am I to judge people in other countries? I mean, that's what people do in Russia!
MasterYong
Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 10:15 AM 4/11/08
@MorganRW: "so please fill me in.."
ROTFLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL... dude, you have no idea.
Just GIS it and enjoy. Oh and in case it wasn't obvious, NSFW!
Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude
Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 10:12 AM 4/11/08
@Mobius: It's gotta better than having her laughing at a teeny weeny..
Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude
nightsky
Posted 10:10 AM 4/11/08
No... words...
nightsky
knyghtryda
Posted 10:07 AM 4/11/08
such cool technology put to such... strange... use.
knyghtryda
Mobius
Posted 10:02 AM 4/11/08
Little known fact: Japanese can not conceive unless the female is crying.
Mobius
Rexter
Posted 10:01 AM 4/11/08
lol only in japan.
Anyway, still some cool tech. Does there exist some freeware software like this? Like i can print out a piece of paper with some signs on them, hold it in front of my webcam and some stuff appears on screen, like in the video above?
Rexter
Hiphopopotamus
Posted 10:00 AM 4/11/08
You had me at 'furry costume,' Japan.
Hiphopopotamus
MorganRW
Posted 10:00 AM 4/11/08
@Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another du...: What the hell is a tentacle? I am not up on my anime so please fill me in.
MorganRW
MorganRW
Posted 9:58 AM 4/11/08
Like the "Crying Game" I am going to cry sitting in my shower after watching that clip. Seriously someone needs to call Chris Hanson with Dateline. Screw to catch a preditor.... Get to Japan and cover Pedophile Toys! Don't try to feed me cultural differences crap. I know wrong when I see it and that is just WRONG.
MorganRW
JadusIV
Posted 10:41 AM 4/11/08
Dino door rules.
JadusIV
Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 10:28 AM 4/11/08
@Lite: That's why they make the big bucks.
Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
Posted 10:25 AM 4/11/08
@Monty: Has anyone done a study on stupid people who will raise the pedophile question everytime a post of something from Japan is done?
I am just saying, it seems a like a nice spot for that sort of idiocy.
Bokusatsu_Tenshi
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 10:23 AM 4/11/08
@FrankenPC: I'm usually verytolerant of male Internet stuff too. This... crosses the line a bit.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Lite
Posted 10:21 AM 4/11/08
@MasterYong: They have an extremely sexually repressed society, so much so that when it comes out it tends to be skewed off the charts into humiliation territory.
If you want an honest answer that is. The short version being, "Man they're just a weird bunch over there."
Lite
shalegac
Posted 10:53 AM 4/11/08
WTF?!
shalegac
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 10:52 AM 4/11/08
@Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude: Like that => [gizmodo.com] ?
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 10:51 AM 4/11/08
@strider_mt2k:

?
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 10:49 AM 4/11/08
@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: It's like a doggie door only bigger.
Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude
BiZarRroBALlmeR
Posted 10:48 AM 4/11/08
They should stick to cute fuzzy dogs.
BiZarRroBALlmeR
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 10:48 AM 4/11/08
@strider_mt2k: What's a Dino Door?
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
AznSlackerType
Posted 11:29 AM 4/11/08
D: wow....... I thought it was pretty unperverted, until.. the dude keep raping her with the stick thingy, pretty neat though
AznSlackerType
Toastie
Posted 11:26 AM 4/11/08
@Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Has anyone done a study to see if some people in Giz can't take a joke? Not that I would venture to guess -- I am just saying, it seems like you can't.
Toastie
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 11:24 AM 4/11/08
@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: DOESN'T ...damn it.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Toastie
Posted 11:23 AM 4/11/08
@MorganRW: Some things are better left unknown, this is one of them.
Toastie
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 11:22 AM 4/11/08
@ratboycom: I'm not saying that the US doesn't have it's issues, it does. But
"Not only that but I have been with girls here that would make American girls look like puritans."
That really does sound like a good thing to me.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
ftv
Posted 11:22 AM 4/11/08
Well, the human race had a good run. Maybe somewhere they'll miss us.
ftv
Toastie
Posted 11:22 AM 4/11/08
@ratboycom: The UK. But to the point, saying a whole country is sexually repressed is kind of foolish to begin with. I mean we have puritans (literal) and gang bangers here that dress up as puritans 'cause that's their thing. I think the U.S. and Japan are close, it's just that Americans prefer real girls over virtual ones.
Toastie
Soulgenesis
Posted 11:22 AM 4/11/08
@Soulgenesis: dammit. no shipping outside of japan.
*off to find importer*
Soulgenesis
Soulgenesis
Posted 11:20 AM 4/11/08
the himeya link redirects to the shopping cart ;) what's up with that, mark? xD j/k.
amazon JP sells this as well.
[www.amazon.co.jp]
*off to buy*
Soulgenesis
ratboycom
Posted 11:13 AM 4/11/08
@Lite:
Sexually repressed? I think the US is far worse. You can see titties on TV here, porn shops are abundant and have much dirtier stuff than in the States. Japanese give the impression of being repressed, but in truth its pretty free here. Where else in the world can you look at a porno mag on the train and drink a beer and not get arrested? Not only that but I have been with girls here that would make American girls look like puritans.
ratboycom
phatsac
Posted 11:44 AM 4/11/08
I want to see some penetration damn it, wtf.
phatsac
Curves
Posted 11:54 AM 4/11/08
@nightsky: My thoughts exactly. So much to say and no way to express it.
Curves
Con Seannery
Posted 12:21 PM 4/11/08
@ftv: The aliens 22 light years away that are starting to pick up Alf will muss our TV in 22 years, or love us for ending transmission. One of those.
Con Seannery
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 12:19 PM 4/11/08
What's a dino door?
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
jcrockerman
Posted 12:19 PM 4/11/08
WANT!!!!!
jcrockerman
Con Seannery
Posted 12:17 PM 4/11/08
@Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another du...: Don't forget the eye bleach. Or the wank rag, if you're into that kind of stuff...
Con Seannery
Oldbrass
Posted 12:17 PM 4/11/08
Holy Crapballs! That is not, NOT OKAY! Seriously, are all women in Japan complete wusses or something? If an American company brought this to market the building would get torched by an angry mob of rabid ladies. And to be honest, I wouldn't blame them.
Oldbrass
Con Seannery
Posted 12:16 PM 4/11/08
@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Freudian Slip?
Con Seannery
Kingteddybear
Posted 12:16 PM 4/11/08
@ftv:
Doubt it....
Kingteddybear
strider_mt2k
Posted 12:40 PM 4/11/08
@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: It's at the end of the clip.
Big ol Dino
strider_mt2k
FrankenPC
Posted 1:09 PM 4/11/08
@MorganRW: Rent Wicked City. It's Anime and it will answer your question.
FrankenPC
archercc
Posted 1:09 PM 4/11/08
what the hell is wrong with japanese people? Seriously, as a nation they need help.
archercc
Ambiguous Blob 2.0
Posted 1:27 PM 4/11/08
That was incredible (the technology involved in it, anyways).... I want something like that, but so I can program over and on top of it. Do they sell kits like this that you can do your own things with?... I'm a designer, and my mind was going like a hundred miles an hour after seeing that...
Ambiguous Blob 2.0
mrwumasta
Posted 1:27 PM 4/11/08
Reminds me of the PS3 game, Eye of Judgement. With the eleves and dragons being traded for sexy anime chicks.
mrwumasta
Eric 'Vote 4 Me' Alder
Posted 2:10 PM 4/11/08
@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: So, he's saying they have some real skanks there?
Eric 'Vote 4 Me' Alder
Monty
Posted 2:28 PM 4/11/08
@Toastie: Actually, I think he answered my question.
Monty
Barry99705
Posted 2:39 PM 4/11/08
That is pretty cool tech. What would be better if it was Cortana, have her read your im's or something.
Barry99705
Alchemistmerlin
Posted 2:59 PM 4/11/08
So the dinosaur at the end...is there any chance someone's going to make a virtual pet type thing out of THAT concept? because that would be a freaking awesome desk toy. Hell, this itself would be a kind of cool desktoy if it weren't so freaking creepy.
Alchemistmerlin
terebakashi
Posted 3:23 PM 4/11/08
@Toastie: Too bad it wasn't funny in the first place.
terebakashi
landru28
Posted 3:19 PM 4/11/08
Poka(wo)mon? Gotta collect 'em all!
landru28
Anubis LG
Posted 4:01 PM 4/11/08
If it only were a Tachikoma....*sigh*
I wonder if the program is easly hacked to make that happen? :3
Still though....the idea and concept behind it are neat. I like this kind of augmented reality. I hope more of it comes about in the future. Preferably without the poking of virtual cleavage.....or maybe with. Hmmmm...
Anubis LG
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 4:20 PM 4/11/08
@Eric 'Vote 4 Me' Alder: Apparently. BTW, I couldn't bring myself to watch the video after reading some of the comments. Is there a dinosaur door near the end?
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
L_A_G
Posted 9:19 PM 4/11/08
What I hated the most in this video was the "girls" voice, it was so hi-pinched and retarded sounding I had to turn my speakers off when the guy started bullying "her" with the stick (due to living in something comparable to a cholege dorm).
I mean why do japanese women have to sound like they were less than 10 years old when the're over 30? Shure a lot of japanese men are afraid to death of mature women due to the traditional style of raising children in a family (husband is away working most of the time when the wife is the "hitler of the house"), but don't they have any kind of dignity? Is feminism a totally unknown consept to japanese women? Is submitting to the wosses they call men these days what they live for?
On a different note, If I got one (of these toys) I would most likeley start fooling around with the software trying to fool it with a chessboard or something till the program gets some really weird gliches and crashes, laugh a lot and then get bored, all within less than an hour...
Fun toy, till you get bored of it in less than an hour and throw it in the tech trash drawer...
L_A_G
Knirfie
Posted 10:39 PM 4/11/08
@Monty: Not a lot. Age of Consent in Japan is 13.
Knirfie
Symbient
Posted 11:06 PM 4/11/08
NAN DESU KA??? I want one. That's freakin cool. **SUGOI**
Symbient
DssTrainer
Posted 12:03 AM 5/11/08
Wow..... Japan is seriously messed up.... I WANT TO GO!
DssTrainer
dragonphyre
Posted 12:48 AM 5/11/08
PedoBear Approves.
dragonphyre
Atriel
Posted 2:49 AM 5/11/08
I'm waiting for the hack that allows strip shows and special bathroom time. This is just brimming with the creepy.
Atriel
MrTroy
Posted 3:46 AM 5/11/08
Wow so I watched the video and thought to myself.... "Man these guys are just reaching for-" and then... the finger poking started. Over and over and over again. In rapid fire mode even. :(
I think the technology is cool and all... Could be put to better use though.
MrTroy
Dr.Remulak
Posted 4:15 AM 5/11/08
Will she eat a hot dog? I need you to put that up on the shelf....Higher, higher, reach way up there. Ahhh thats good!
Dr.Remulak
gerrylum
Posted 4:09 AM 5/11/08
I gotta imagine someone can pirate this and just print out the cube and cards...
gerrylum
Derry Quinn
Posted 4:19 AM 5/11/08
@Knirfie: I gotta move me to Japan!
Meh we do it here younger than the age of consent anyway
Derry Quinn
godwhacker
Posted 11:27 AM 5/11/08
@Lite:
+1 bloodhound gang reference!!!
godwhacker
FiveLiters
Posted 11:24 AM 5/11/08
If you close your eyes and play this,it sounds like every other Japanese porno movie.
FiveLiters
FiveLiters
Posted 11:18 AM 5/11/08
@Toastie: I'm thinking that whole "Two Girls,One Cup" thing ranks up there as well...
FiveLiters
ValenciaGrimlet
Posted 12:18 PM 4/11/08
I am I the only one that can see a little innocent fun in this? To me, the avatar is clearly an "it" rather than a "she". One can equate this to putting a GI-joe through the ringer or perhaps a Barbie on the barbecue for a laugh. Also, this can give a little empathy training... Be nice to the avatar and its happy. Smack it around and its sad -- So don't smack it, dumbass.
ValenciaGrimlet
altgrave
Posted 3:56 AM 6/11/08
@ratboycom: you can drink on the train?!
altgrave
planetarian
Posted 7:19 AM 6/11/08
@Knirfie: it actually varies by prefecture from what i recall, and each prefecture has its own laws about what is acceptable towards the lower end.
planetarian