“If one thing goes wrong, everything goes wrong. Our duty this time is to relate the procedure to the people watching. That’s why we diligently try to match our dance to the technique and find our position. I think that’s one of the reasons why I get so nervous on stage like this.”
The three of them, freed from their tension, also talked about what they thought of a “positive future” that they had seen during the process so far.
“Instead of using the equipment around us with “notes” posted all over the place, what if we could use cameras that anyone can use to spread spatial information there the three dimensions. distant ones. I think I can do that.”A~chan, Nocchi says that.
Kashiyuka said, “The only way to enjoy a live performance is far away through a screen like a movie theater…” and he continued with an amused tone. “It would be amazing if we could live in 3D wherever they are meaning we don’t have to choose a location either thinking that would be great.”
Reproducing and spreading one’s own livelihood
In this performance,autonomous vehicleA system equipped with three LiDARs (sensors that use laser light) and cameras at the same level as those installed in Perfume was installed at five locations around the Perfume platform. By combining the large amount of 3D point cloud data and image data measured and captured by this system, and using NTT’s proprietary technology that increases the resolution of 3D data in real time, it is possible to capture the movement of people and objects to be able to transfer and reproduce spatial information to remote locations with high accuracy and high speed. Kota Hidaka, director of NTT Human Information Laboratories, explains the objective of this demonstration test as follows.
“We have been delivering voices for a long time, including the word ‘tele’ (distant) which is included in our company name, NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation). From this point of view, in 2017 we started working with Perfume on ‘Tele (far away)’ to try to recreate the whole space with a solid quality of entertainment using point clouds. In that sense, Perfume, which has been around for 25 years, is unique.”
Spatial transmission that gives you the same feeling as a live performance on site. Jun Shimamura, who is also the main researcher at NTT Human Information Laboratories, thinks about what the concept of IOWN, or the future society, could be.
“Furthermore, by transmitting human myoelectricity and even physical intelligence, for example, disabled people will be able to ‘move’ their bodies. Or, in the urban layer, a large amount of spatial information with movement can be transferred at once. two-way sharing, simulation and analysis of disaster response and urban planning, and real-time feedback. This ultimately leads to human happiness in the real world.”
There is Perfume and the texture of technology in every century
Kaoru Kanno, who was the creative director of this performance, said that one of his missions was to present a vision of what kind of society he would create, based on the theme of NTT technology that has not appeared in the society still it happened. At the same time, that was another necessary reason.
