AR & VR Development Company in Tokyo

Three device targets frame most Tokyo XR budgets: a scoped PlayStation VR2 prototype, a production PSVR2 title, or an Apple Vision Pro or Meta Quest 3 mixed reality app for the Japanese market. Scope drivers include PSVR2 SDK integration, a vertical slice of gameplay, and pre-certification technical compliance work. Tokyo XR rates sit at the upper end of the Asian range, comparable to Seoul and below the Bay Area, reflecting the dense Tokyo talent pool around Sony, Bandai Namco, Sega, Square Enix, Toei, and the VTubing tech vendors. We bill in JPY or USD on JST hours with fixed-fee proposals against a signed scope.

PlayStation VR2 is Sony Interactive Entertainment\'s premium console VR headset with 4K HDR OLED displays (2000x2040 per eye), 90 or 120Hz refresh, 110-degree field of view, inside-out tracking, eye tracking with foveated rendering, and the Sense controllers with adaptive triggers and haptic feedback. Native PSVR2 development requires a Sony developer agreement and access to the PSVR2 SDK, with Unreal Engine 5 as the dominant engine for AAA PSVR2 titles and Unity as the secondary option with the official PSVR2 plugin. We build PSVR2 titles with the PS5 hardware as the development target, instrument for the eye tracking foveated rendering pipeline that lets PSVR2 hit higher effective resolution than peers, and design around the Sense controller\'s adaptive trigger and haptic feedback affordances that are the platform\'s differentiator. Sony platform certification (TRC, Technical Requirements Checklist) runs four to eight weeks and reviews crash and ANR rates, frame rate stability, peripheral handling, content rating compliance, and store metadata. We prepare the certification package alongside the build, addressing TRC requirements during development rather than as a post-build remediation cycle.

Japan\'s Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), amended in 2022, classifies personal data into ordinary personal information and special-care-required personal information (要配慮個人情報), with biometric identifiers (facial recognition data, fingerprints, iris scans, voice prints) treated as personally identifiable information requiring explicit consent and purpose limitation when used for identification rather than anonymous analytics. XR-specific biometric surfaces include Vision Pro Persona scans, Quest 3 hand and eye tracking, PSVR2 eye tracking telemetry, and VTubing face tracking which captures real-time facial expression data from the streamer\'s actual face. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PPC, J-PIPC) enforces APPI with administrative orders and fines, and the 2022 amendments tightened cross-border transfer rules requiring documentation of the recipient jurisdiction\'s privacy regime. Our discovery phase produces an APPI data inventory, a Japanese-language privacy policy that satisfies PPC template guidance, a special-care-required personal information consent flow where biometric identification is involved, and a cross-border transfer documentation package for AWS regions outside Japan or US-headquartered platform vendors.

Yes, but the IP licensing workflow is the gating constraint, not the technology. Japanese anime and manga IP holders (Toei Animation for One Piece and Dragon Ball, Shueisha for One Piece, Naruto, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kodansha for Attack on Titan and Fairy Tail, Bandai Namco for Gundam and Tales of, Sunrise for Gundam mecha designs, Studio Ghibli as the high-bar reference for animation fidelity) all run formal licensing approval processes that review character likeness fidelity, voice line usage, story canonicity, and merchandising tie-ins. We work either as a sub-contractor to the IP holder\'s in-house digital team or as an approved vendor to a licensed agency partner, with build deliverables reviewed at each milestone against IP holder approval (typically character model and animation, then voice line integration, then full gameplay or experience flow). We build the underlying AR or VR technology on Unity AR Foundation with custom cel-shader pipelines (MToon, UTS2, or proprietary), and we deliver licensing-friendly asset pipelines that let the IP holder retain control of character files and voice line masters.

VTubing (virtual YouTuber) is a Japanese-originated phenomenon with millions of creators globally, anchored by talent agencies HoloLive (Cover Corp, Tokyo) and Nijisanji (ANYCOLOR, Tokyo), independent VTubers on YouTube and niconico, and an ecosystem of tools built around Live2D Inc\'s Cubism SDK for 2D avatar animation. We build VTubing tools using Live2D Cubism SDK for the avatar rig, face tracking through ARKit Face Tracking on iPhone (the dominant capture surface), MediaPipe Face Mesh for webcam-based capture, or specialised hardware like the iFacialMocap pipeline. For 3D anime-style avatars, VRoid Studio (Pixiv) is the dominant authoring tool with VRM as the interoperable avatar format. We integrate with OBS Studio for streaming, YouTube Live and niconico streaming infrastructure, and platform-specific tools (HoloLive\'s internal pipeline, Nijisanji\'s production tools, independent VTuber stacks like VTube Studio and PrPrLive). Audio processing handles voice changers (where the talent uses one), spatial audio for VR-native VTuber broadcasts, and Japanese language voice typing for live chat translation.

JIS Z 8541-3 is the Japanese Industrial Standard for ergonomic requirements for visual displays in head-mounted display devices, published by the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee and aligned with ISO 9241-394. It sets guidance on visual fatigue, motion sickness reduction, interpupillary distance accommodation, prolonged-use posture, and content design patterns that minimise VR-induced symptoms. Japanese VR titles intended for commercial distribution, especially those targeting sessions longer than thirty minutes or younger audiences, are evaluated against JIS Z 8541-3 informally during platform certification (Sony\'s TRC references ergonomic considerations) and formally where the publisher requires compliance documentation. Our discovery phase runs a JIS Z 8541-3 ergonomic review covering field of view design, motion vector design (reducing artificial locomotion-induced nausea), comfort breaks and session-length warnings, IPD calibration, and content advisory messaging. METI publishes complementary guidance on AR and VR in industrial settings (Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0 contexts) that we apply to enterprise XR builds for Toyota, Komatsu, Sony Manufacturing, and Mitsubishi.

Yes. Cluster Inc, headquartered in Tokyo, operates the dominant Japanese-native metaverse VR platform with strong domestic adoption among Japanese consumers who prefer Cluster\'s anime-friendly avatar culture and Japanese-language community over VRChat\'s international surface. We build Cluster experiences using the Cluster Creator Kit on Unity, which provides the world authoring tools, scripting via Cluster Script (a JavaScript-flavoured scripting language), and the avatar and asset upload pipeline. Cluster supports VR (Quest, PSVR2, Vision Pro through the visionOS app), desktop, and mobile clients, which lets a single Cluster world reach the full Japanese consumer surface from a single Unity build. Use cases include Japanese corporate metaverse events (the Cluster pattern is established for product launches, fan meetings, and virtual conferences in Japan), educational VR (with university and school partnerships through Cluster\'s education program), and brand activations for Japanese consumer brands. We coordinate with Cluster\'s developer relations team on featured world placement and Cluster\'s event distribution surfaces.

Japanese industrial XR runs on HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap 2 with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides or proprietary Japanese factory tooling, deployed for automotive assembly line guidance at Toyota, construction equipment remote operation and training at Komatsu, semiconductor and electronics manufacturing training at Sony Manufacturing and Sony Semiconductor Solutions, shipbuilding quality control at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and infrastructure inspection at Hitachi. METI\'s Industry 4.0 (Connected Industries) and Society 5.0 investment programs fund pilot deployments at scale, and the dominant pattern is a six-to-twelve-month pilot followed by phased production rollout across factory sites. We build HoloLens 2 native apps with Unity and the Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK), Magic Leap 2 apps with Unity and the Magic Leap SDK, and integration with Japanese factory MES (manufacturing execution systems) and PLM (product lifecycle management) tools including those from NEC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and Mitsubishi Electric. Security review follows the client\'s internal standards (typically ISO 27001 plus Japanese-specific controls), with on-premise or Japanese-sovereign cloud deployment where the factory data cannot leave the country.