Ok, let's try to big girls and boys while looking at the U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi Virtual Humanoid, a "mixed reality" avatar from Yokohama National University we recently peeped at our
Tokyo Reader Meetup after escaping from the
NTT DoCoMo labs. Destined to support you in your state of involuntary abstinence, the U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi system maps a pretty girl onto the robot's anatomically correct, green-cloth surface with the help of a sensor-equipped head-mounted display worn by the lonely, lonely man. The result is a 3D character you can touch and "interact" with. Researcher Michihiko Shoji hopes that the system can be commercialized for arcades and for general use around the home. Slather her up with
artificial human skin and you've bunged the hole Tux could never quite fill. Also available in a chubby doughboy model if that's how you roll. Video? Oh hells yeah, right after the break.
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posted Oct 12th 2007 7:58AM
That guy has obviously never held a girl's hand before...And the overall idea sorta creeps me out.
Obviously. Because that GUY is a WOMAN. Try taking a closer look at the picture. Or maybe you have never seen a woman before.
If thats a guy then I must have turned because he's got a nice ass.
Domo arigato mrs roboto...
i swear the japanese are developing these things either for the ultimate sex toy or giant military ninja mechs to take over the world, consider yourself warned!
Well, you're right there... The Japanese either create things which revolutionise how we perceive things or just do it to entise small asian cock to stand up and be accounted for. But given the ammount of detail put into the 3D model... I would have to go with the latter.
@ PJK
Nice ass? That thing looks like 2 little eggs gasping for air.
Not a nice ass at all. But she does have a pair of boobs that obviously make her a woman.
master sword = owned.
Even if it was a guy, ever think that maybe touching a 3d generated woman might be pretty weird?
We're not all spotty teenagers whose first thought is to go up the skirt of...well anything in one really.
Ha, wow I did get pwned! Guess I shouldn't try to make sense before I go to school, too early
U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi CREEPY!
Japanese culture can wary between hello kitty and gurochan.
O_O
ups "vary".
it's only a matter of time before these virtual avatars file a virtual lawsuit for sexual harassment.
"personal humanoids for general use" ????
Well I for one welcome are artifical gynoid sex slaves - especially If I can get one that looks like Cortana.
"personal humanoids for general use" ????
Well I for one welcome our artifical gynoid sex slaves - especially If I can get one that looks like Cortana.
"personal humanoids for general use" ????
Well I for one welcome our artifical gynoid sex slaves - especially If I can get one that looks like Cortana.
Well... I guess I know what I am going to trade in my blow-up doll for!!!
well, i wouldn't trade that blow up doll just yet.
For a blowup doll, you at least get some degree of realism (i assume that a blowup doll has some skin like material over "some parts" having never seen one myself) and see yourself doing it in full detail, real world technicolour, etc.
For this "thing", not only is your "partner" a robot with cold joints and possible painful innards, you have to content with seeing everything in pixelated and what looks like 16bit colour scheme.
Or, you could always learn to socialize and get a real girl. :)
The Japanese have finally sated our desire for hot girl-on-femmbot action!
Did you say "bung hole"?
"Oh Fry... I love you more than the moon and the stars and the POETIC IMAGE NUMBER 37 NOT FOUND"
Hm... tbh I don't find this as "perverted" as you've laid it out...
it's quite interesting, as the robot gives a better "reality" feel with the force feedback and updating the rendered model according to this interference from the eral person.
"Hm... tbh I don't find this as "perverted" as you've laid it out..."
Me neither, but perversion is in the eye of the beholder, and this is Engadget after all :)
"...and this is where I have sex with my own personal sex bot. Do you sleep with a robot?"
"I sleep in a big bed with my wife."
"Oh."
Ah, a Futurama AND Simpsons quote in the same article. I've finallyfound my home away from home...
Let's throw this in, just for good measure:
"I am an Automaton Nucular Neohuman Android; you may call me ANNA. I am a robot ninja from the planet England who is here to destroy you and free this land from your tyranny."
hahaha bravo on the family guy.
Can I cover my girlfriend in the chroma key suit and make her look like a super model?
Imagine the possibilities for role-playing fetishes! Uh..Um....not that I have one.
It was only a matter of time before robots replaced the world's oldest profession too.
"Lizzard, am I standing in poop?"
Japan - making real women obsolete since 2007.
The ultimate Wii boxing add-on accessory!
The suggestion to put the green-cloth on a real person with this system is pretty cool, too.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All you guys, even engadget got it wrong! Did you even watch the video before commenting? This is not a tool for lonely men; it is a tool for lezbos who cannot find a date! I noticed right away in the pic. Noticed what you say? The "guy" in the picture is a "girl". Check the wire coming from the headset... Do you see her chest? Those are obviously small buzzungas. Then if you just check the video clip you'll see right away that the researcher is a woman. Anyway, I just wanted to point that out.
"the japanese are developing these things either for the ultimate sex toy or giant military ninja mechs to take over the world,"
Why is this an either/or situation?
I'd hit it.
Looks like someone beat you to it. Literally.
You know you said "bunged the hole" and "chubby" in the same article? What kind of place is this?
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Yeap... creepy Japanese with yet another creepy idea
This is just plain creepy. However, it reminds me of that Futurama episode where the humans were using robots as partners instead of people. The entire civilized world went to pots because people got what they wanted in a mate so there was no reason to strive for anything. ("PHILLIP J. FRY!" A quote from Lucy Liu).
Is it just me or does the thing look like it's 10-12 years old. Calling all pedafiles you don't have to go to the playground anymore.
This is the sort of thing we have to be really careful about.
A pedophile is a foot fetishist.
A paedophile is a child molester.
Please never confuse the two, foot fetishists are mainly harmless, while paedophiles seldom are.
(A pedafile is maybe a file about feet or a dumb spelling error. I suppose it could be a trade name for a corn removal rasp)
Actually in US English "pedophile" is correct, but you are right about that "pedafile" thing not being a word
Just had to give engadget and Thomas Ricker major props for such an awesome blog post. Geek satire taken to a whole new level. The Tux comment is genius.
"Can I take a virtual baseball bat to that virtual beeyatch???"
I'm telling you man..
Ghost in the shell will be a reality!
i'll wait for the olivia munn version to be uploaded.
Looks like just the thing for my lovenasium.
Kif, I've just made it with a hot virtuarobohoney. Inform the troops.
Looks like just the thing for my lovenasium.
Kif, I've just made it with a hot virtuarobohoney. Inform the troops.
U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi + Fleshlight = Out of work hookers.
What did the five fingers say to the face? SLAP!
Isn't it sad that there are so many lonely people in the world? Is it so hard to change people's attitudes to allow them to connect rather than make robot substitutes?
Even so, an engineer friend of mine answered a question regarding his obsession with anime with "real girls, real problems". He had been burned hard one too many times...
No! it's not designed for the lonely person. that green thing is just a dummy. You need your real ugly girlfriend to make it work so that she will look like Britney Spears when you wear the VR. Ofcourse your girlfriend can wear one too so you will look like Tom Cruise.... and an explosive Sex follows.....
"VirtualGasms", new pop-slang of the future.
Quickly!! Copyright it!!!!
Quickly!! Copyright it!!!!
Celebrity stalkers' dream come true.
Obviously, they've never taken middle school hygiene otherwise they would've never seen the propaganda film...
...Ordinarily, Billy would work hard to make money from his paper route. Then he'd use the money to buy dinner for Mavis, thus earning the slim chance to perform the reproductive act.
But in a world where teens can date robots, why should he bother?
Why should anyone bother?
Let's take a look at Billy's planet a year later...
Where are all the football stars? And where are the biochemists?
They're trapped!
Trapped in a soft, vise-like grip of robot lips.
All civilization was just an effort to impress the opposite sex... and sometimes the same sex.
Now, let's skip forward 80 years into the future... Billy's planet was destroyed by aliens!
Have you guessed the name of Billy's planet?
It was Earth!
Don't date robots!
(Brought to you by the Space Pope.)
Click through to the vid of the avatar showing you her "oh" face.
Clearly thought up by someone playing Everquest II or Second Life way too late at night... Also funny how much work they put into the hand. Like they... intended it to... do something...
She love you long time, longer with Lithium Ion!
I need two of these to make my Olsen twin dream a reality!
I also like how the avatar had a blue glow around her, just like Lucy Liubot did.
Why go for a robot with an A cup. Reminds me of weird science.
Yes! Now I can finally fulfill my lifelong dream of smacking a Japanese woman in the face!
oh my god PORN will never be the same!!!
FUTURAMA bite off.. stop trying to take credit you tard.
That green thing is just a dummy. The real intention of this VR is to make all ugly girlfriends look like a model. Ofcourse your girlfiend can wear one too so you will look like Brad Pitt. More improvement to the glasses to make it thinner for an untimate virtual + real sex!!
I thought the doughboy remark was a joke. Then lo and behold, there it is in the video.
.....I'm all for personal sex bots, but I have a feeling the STD's will leave you with a Shocking* surprise!
You can watch the full sequence of the experience.
Check the new video of U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi at ASIAGRAPH, held in Tokyo, last week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htkVlCfCV2M