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Tokyo City Symphony: Fun 3D projection mapping marks Roppongi Hills’ 10th anniversary

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Besides being one of the central hubs in the city of Tokyo, the Roppongi area is also a place that many startups call home. Likewise many tech giants like Yahoo, GREE, and Google, as well as and a number of incubators, have set up offices there too. In the center of the area is the iconic Roppongi Hills, a 53 story facility features museums, restaurants, a cinema, and all kinds of entertainment. Roppongi Hills just celebrated its 10 year anniversary, and to commemorate the occasion a new project called Love Tokyo has been launched. Mori Building, the company behind Roppongi Hills, has created a fantastic 3D projection mapping website called Tokyo City Symphony. The site presents a miniature model of the city of Tokyo at a 1:1000 scale, and allows users to enjoy 3D projection mapping on the city of Tokyo. On the website, you begin by choosing the theme for the city you want to project from — it could be Future City, Rock City, or Edo City (old/traditional). Just tap on the keys of your keyboard and its like you’re playing a piano, with the city of Tokyo as your instrument. When visiting the website initially you’ll hear…

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Besides being one of the central hubs in the city of Tokyo, the Roppongi area is also a place that many startups call home. Likewise many tech giants like Yahoo, GREE, and Google, as well as and a number of incubators, have set up offices there too. In the center of the area is the iconic Roppongi Hills, a 53 story facility features museums, restaurants, a cinema, and all kinds of entertainment.

Roppongi Hills just celebrated its 10 year anniversary, and to commemorate the occasion a new project called Love Tokyo has been launched. Mori Building, the company behind Roppongi Hills, has created a fantastic 3D projection mapping website called Tokyo City Symphony. The site presents a miniature model of the city of Tokyo at a 1:1000 scale, and allows users to enjoy 3D projection mapping on the city of Tokyo.

On the website, you begin by choosing the theme for the city you want to project from — it could be Future City, Rock City, or Edo City (old/traditional). Just tap on the keys of your keyboard and its like you’re playing a piano, with the city of Tokyo as your instrument. When visiting the website initially you’ll hear a man’s voice announce “Roppongi, Roppongi,” the same voice you hear as you exit the train at Roppongi station. You can also save and share your original Tokyo symphony on Twitter and Facebook.

Happy 10th anniversary, Roppongi Hills!

Tokyo Roppongi Gigapixel: See the city in spectacular panoramic detail

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Jeffrey Martin is the founder of 360cites, a website devoted to panoramic photography around the world [1]. And he has taken his photography talents to Tokyo, shooting an amazing panoramic shot of the Roppongi area from atop Mori Tower [2]. You can navigate the photo using the directional and zoom arrows a the base of the display. But to give you and idea of the kind of detail we’re talking about here, check out Tokyo Skytree pictured on the horizon below: And here it is when you zoom all the way in on it! Below you can see a shot of Jeffrey with his camera set-up. I’d be a little bit nervous reaching out to adjust that camera if I was him! Check out the entire panoramic photo here if you’d like to browse the amazing scene for yourself. For those of you interested in creating your own panoramic photos, 360cities has some basic instructions on how to get started. You might start with the 360cities mobile app, available for both iPhone and iPad, which looks very simple to use. You can find even more amazing panoramas from around the world over on 360cities.net. (Via Gigazine) And some from out…

Jeffrey Martin is the founder of 360cites, a website devoted to panoramic photography around the world [1]. And he has taken his photography talents to Tokyo, shooting an amazing panoramic shot of the Roppongi area from atop Mori Tower [2].

You can navigate the photo using the directional and zoom arrows a the base of the display. But to give you and idea of the kind of detail we’re talking about here, check out Tokyo Skytree pictured on the horizon below:

skytree-wide

And here it is when you zoom all the way in on it!

skytree-zoom

Below you can see a shot of Jeffrey with his camera set-up. I’d be a little bit nervous reaching out to adjust that camera if I was him! Check out the entire panoramic photo here if you’d like to browse the amazing scene for yourself.

For those of you interested in creating your own panoramic photos, 360cities has some basic instructions on how to get started. You might start with the 360cities mobile app, available for both iPhone and iPad, which looks very simple to use.

You can find even more amazing panoramas from around the world over on 360cities.net. (Via Gigazine)

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  1. And some from out of this world!  ↩

  2. Initially I thought that this was panorama was created recently, although I suspect it might have been taken in 2012, and only published recently.  ↩