未開のことばAR

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About this app

This app was developed to be responsible for the AR function of Takeo Desk Diary 2022 "Uncharted Language".


Takeo Desk Diary is a desk diary (not for sale) produced by Takeo Co., Ltd. for over 60 years since 1959. Last year's 2021 edition of "Turning the Earth's Day" is a concept that considers each day of our day as a frame of the history of the evolution of the earth. It was a project that arranged. This year, the second year, we will focus on the "words" of humankind and invite them to travel from the past to the future of human language and letters.


In the magazine, the history of "words and letters of mankind" is developed in the same way as last year's edition, with 12 spreads from January to December. I tried to produce it as "enlarged paper (text space)" by making use of AR technology.
For example, if you hold the smartphone that launched this application over the calligraphy paper of the Koran (Islamic scripture), which means "what you sing aloud," the voice of the recitation will be played and the color of the text will begin to change. Alternatively, AR is used to describe the evolution of polymorphic alphabetic characters in various parts of the Eurasian continent.
The characteristics of Japanese text space design, in which characters and languages ​​are mixed on the visual screen as seen in manga, are expressed by superimposing the art work of Hon'ami Koetsu 400 years ago and the image of modern Vocaloid. It is a production that projects a video expressing the future potential of the only living ideographic character "Kanji" as a visual language on the paper of the oracle bone script more than 3000 years ago.


For our generation, who lives on the border between print culture and electronic media, bridging and integrating paper booklets (analog media) and digital information systems is an unavoidable civilization issue. AR / MR technology should help in this challenge, but many are in the stage of rudimentary experiments in the fields of entertainment and advertising, and the vast amount of intelligence accumulated in books and print text spaces. Attempts to literally "expand" and "upgrade" heritage with AR technology are still untapped. This magazine is an experiment to solve such historical problems.