Konami has again demonstrated its dual mastery of control over otaku heart/purse-strings, this time by offering a complete Love Plus seaside tourism package giving otaku the chance for some imaginary time alone with the girl of their choice.
Seaside tourist trap Atami, in Shizuoka, plays host to the event, which lasts two days and a night and includes a thrilling bus (which is of course adorned with one of the three girls) tour of the town.
Each girl gets her own tour event, suggesting availability of the Nene tickets may be strained.
Of more interest is the fact that the event includes 10 “AR spots,” where the happy otaku can indulge in an augmented reality schoolgirl dating fantasy:
One otaku reported being offered a complementary double room for him and his virtual girlfriend:
The price for this semi-virtual excursion? A mere ¥39,800 ($450).
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Wait, what's outrageous for the price? 2 days, 1 night at an okay looking ryoukan, comes with a specialized bus tour, double bedroom (for one person!) and a actually sort of sweet looking seaside location: $450?
Of course, I'm sure it'd be cheaper if not for the Love Plus, but that's the entire gimmick and costs extra for all the preparation and specialized staff training.
I was actually sort of surprised at how the price sounds too reasonable.
Now, if food was sold separately, then I'd understand outrage, but it doesn't seem like that kind of operation?
They should give the guy who married his game a free night as a honeymoon. XD
2D or not, does anybody else see something very strange about offering a couple two seperate beds? It reminds me of Clannad, when Nagisa and Tomoya were living together and MARRIED but still slept apart from each other. No wonder Japan's birth rate is so low...
And they wonder why the suicide rate is so high in Japan. All the fake realities don't come true.
You just need one bed to fuck true enough,but you have to be prepared for the possibility of virtual rejection.
Doesn't that only happen if you have a pirated version of the game?
I'd totally go and throw a Jerry Springer fit on the bus, accuse Nene of cheating on me and pick a fight with one of the otaku.
So wait, are those cardboard cutouts? If so, aren't there cheaper ways to make your waifu a reality?
I know business is business but this is what i call ovedoing things... Though choice remains in the hands of the otaku (or anyone else who is interested for tham matter).
They already have the giant Gundam, and now they're adding virtual girl hotels? Dayum, Shizuoka.
This would be so cool if it wasn't used for such a disturbing purpose.
I'm sorry...
I DON'T GET OIT.
same here i dont get why this is so popular
Wow, that's an unusually good price.
Welcome.
This is the future.
It will just get better from here.
Another reason to admire Japanese.
They should equip the hotel guest with one of those goggles with a camera at the end so it'll look like she's right in front of you... it looks like this:
http://www.vr.ucl.ac.uk/projects/arthur/arthur2.jpg
wow i guess the next step is love marriage oh wai-
Artafact is this a Luxury Hotel these Otaku will be staying at?
Not by Japanese standards at least.
For that much money, couldn't one get a prostitute or "health care" professional instead?
Oh wait, I forgot I'm on Sankaku, of course 2d > 3D here.
Oh look, a CORRECT troll lol
Oh look, a troll. Cute.
Oh look, a cute troll.
Oh, look cute. A troll.
A cute troll. Oh look.
I don't get this.
Is this a sarcasm? How can you love a sheet of paper? I love 2D lolis but, I would never find her attractive if she was made of sheet of paper. Let 2D beauties stay in the virtual world.
She prolly can't blush...
nor having sexso... Love Hotel Plus?
Konami is wise...
*imagines a Love+ version of Silent Hill...With Pyramid Head*
Yes...Very wise indeed...
Love Money Plus?
Words fail me.
I do wonder though, when they plan to get around to making these virtual girlfriends able to get pregnant. Only virtually pregnant (god I hope only virtually so hehe).
That's very intuitive, implementing AR technology into rooms like that. But then again, looking at the price....
you see that piece of paper?
that is what the augment reality is. it dosent realy matter where that paper is it would have the same effect.
That's an one example of it, yes. As the technology progresses, we don't need the marker paper, or anything else.
A real life example is the Demon Helmet of the F35. Stuff like that is going to become more and more common.
Ultimately, i'm hoping for stuff like Denno Coil, minus the coil domain stuff.
yea, may be, but currently thats what it is. a piece of paper. not exactly impressive.
now the 3ds, with the 2 cameras, has the potential to not need that paper. because instead of a flat image its procession a image in 3d. even a rudimentary program could show it what and where shit is.
Actually, the paper is just there to use as a point of reference. Even the 3ds would need it, and it would need to know where exactly to put the image.
Something like natal could work, but then then you need a lot of edge detection and so on. Being able to recognize this is a 'bed' versus 'not bed' and stuff like that.
Even dennou coil required lots of reference stuff, with all those cameras around the town recording environments. Hell, they used paper tags to spawn items, eye of judgement style.
natal has 2 cameras, and i forget what the third it, but basically all it does more than the 3ds2 camera is look at a person, and super impose a wire frame, and if i am correct has facial recognition for login.
now hear me out on the 3ds. it would look at the room and assign areas like the rectangle would be the bed, and with motion tracking it could follow it. lets say the room had a nightstand an entertainment center with a tv. 2 bets and a coutch. that would be 6 walls, 3 rectangles, and one 12 polly model. with motion and room tracking it could figure out its own perspective. and for a point or reference, my old computer that is probably worlds less powerful than the 3ds could do something similar,
the use would have to tell it whats what but after the initial setup, it could go all on its own.
Stuff like Denno Coil sound great indeed.
totally speechless... love to see wats next... onsen anyone?
Lol. If this is the hotel, I can't wait to see what happens at Love Cape [http://carview-img04.bmcdn.jp/carlife/images/TownInfo/239265.jpg] xD
Then they gotta waterproof the iPhone.
and that fruity phone breaks just by holding it...
Good luck with that.
Anime and manga companies should learn about marketing from these guys :)
indeed! this makes a strong economy of RONERY Otaku's!!!
"Heart-pounding Midnight Mode" coming right up!
(in a nutshell: Don't sleep...)
Those girls in the back must be very freaked out...
How fool can an otaku be?
Pay money to a virtual hooker?
Not to mention they are gonna witness a whole new level of ronriness.
the hotel rooms should include cyanide pills , you reached the mercy killing level .
And the hotel management are gonna find some missing AR's after the campaign...
More like lots of tissue paper.
How do they watch the AR?
There needs to be some video camera which always films the room and a TV/screen where the otaku watches his waifu, if I'm not mistaken.
Somebody has more info on this?
They use the Love Plus iPhone app.
LMAO!
or lesbians themselves
2d lesbians are lot different then 3d butches
lesbian DS marriage.
Or well paid
Otakus have plummeted to new depths of idiocy it seems.
And I thought being herbivorous was a bad thing. But this is just pathetic.
*imagines a group of otaku entering the hotel*
*imagines the guest and hotel staff reactions*
LMFAO, I can already see facial expressions xD.
"The price for this semi-virtual excursion? A mere ¥39,800 ($450)."
o.O makes me wonder why they don't just buy a high school higher, dress her up and call it "Love Plus Reality Edition."
that's definitely the best way to use the ARToolKit technology....
creepy for most people...yet it's awesome
Two beds?, I just need 1 to fuck a girl
Bah. Amateur.
One to fuck them on, and one to sleep on afterwards.
Or do you like sleeping in your crusty juices? Oh, wait, you're going to say you keep going all night so you don't need to worry about sleeping. LOL.
Atami, Atami... Wait... Wasn't Atami leveled last year by Dr. Hell's armies? XD
Wondering if I should stop pitying these sad schmucks and start pitying the females of Japan.
love plus, hotel plus, next what plus?
You minus
So ronery...
Gaddem...
For that type of money in Japan you can pay a real school girl to have sex with you.
Who wants some 3d pig when you have Nene.
After reading this, all I can say is to quote that old adage: "A Fool and his money are soon parted."
*sigh*
This shows how many real girls have failed hard?
It's their fault that they are 3DPD and have too high expectations ...
I am so very disappointed that I will never be good enough to date fine gentlemen such as yourselves and other ronery otaku. :)
Sounds like somebody's shifting blame lol
It's always someone else's fault isn't it?
none of mine mind you.
*looks at to do before i die list*
"Dating a 2d girl in real life"
Yep this event comes really close.
Guess i wont have to wait much longer.
Don't die...Think of all the anime and games you'll miss and the eventual overthrow of moral faggotry against Hentai and Eroge rape...
What's so bad about what I said..?
If you die, you won't be able to experience any of it...Or anything else for that matter...
I think your a little confused here.
Im not gonna kill myself after i completed my list.
Its just stuff i wanna do, before i die of old age.
You know like visiting the grave of Jimi Hendrix, spending 2k in Swiss Francs on a shopping spree in Akihabara.
I didn't think you were going to commit suicide...
I thought you had a fatal, incurable (or curable, but you can't afford it) disease or something and wanted to do all the things you wanted to do before you died from it...
But yeah, sorry for the confusion...
*imagines a group of otakus entering the hotel*
*imagines the staff and guest reaction*
lol epic win xD
on another note:-
"The price for this semi-virtual excursion? A mere ¥39,800 ($450)."
Time for a little master-evil advertisement.
For the small price of ¥39,800, you can get the new Love Plus Game "Reality" Edition, the game includes, REAL school girls between middle and high school, wireless fapability and touch motion thats right it feels like she really there. Act now and you can get the harem mode thats right two to three school girls, at the same time,limited time offer, so get them while there still in prostitution.