According to a tweet from the @miku_flick Twitter account, SEGA’s flick-input iOS rhythm game featuring pre-rendered animations from Project DIVA is now available worldwide and has now an English interface as well. The game can currently be purchased from the US iTunes App Store for $13.99. A few things were updated with this new version,
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In addition to giving a more detailed description of the world Aoki Lapis comes from, i-style Project has also announced that they are working on their next character, Aoki Lapis’s older sister. Furthermore, since her name hasn’t been decided yet, they are looking for ideas for her name, submitted through Twitter. In order to participate,
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Music Girl Hatsune Miku is a new iOS app created as a joint project between Crypton Future Media, SEGA, MARZA ANIMATION PLANET (which created many of the 3D CG for SEGA’s games, including Project DIVA) and iOS development firm W Rock Games. A teaser video on YouTube tells the user to enjoy listening to music
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The music contest commemorating the release of VOCALOID3 has now had its deadline extended from March 31, 2012 to June 30, 2012. The contest involves submitting a song made using one of the eligible VOCALOID3 sound banks to Nico Nico Douga before the deadline and tagging the video with a specific tag and locking it.
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At interaction 2012, a symposium focused on novel interaction techniques organized by the Information Processing Society of Japan, junior employees at YAMAHA demonstrated a keyboard that allowed real-time synthesized vocal performance using the VOCALOID engine. The interactive demonstration received one of the five interactive paper awards at the symposium and a video describing this keyboard
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FM 139.7, an online magazine about “East-Asian Pop Culture” that primarily focuses on Japan apparently published their first issue of their VOCALOID-centric online magazine, VocaloLight. The first issue, laid out in full color with various VOCALOID illustrations (from official art or art posted on PIAPRO), presents several articles, including an overview of the new VOCALOID3
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On March 9, Google and Crypton Future Media unveiled their latest collaborative project, which is intended to further develop and expand the creative movement behind Hatsune Miku, as portrayed by the line “Everyone, Creator” at the end of the Google Chrome video. The Google+ page is available in both Japanese and English. To kick off
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The iOS rhythm game Miku Flick is now available for purchase on the Japanese App Store for 1200 JPY. Unfortunately it’s not available on other App Stores, but an English version is coming soon. Fortunately, there are onscreen hints for which button to flick which way so that no Japanese knowledge is really required, and
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Unveiled during an AH-Software broadcast on Ustream, VOCALOMAKETS has now added two online flash applications for making short snippets of songs with the Yuzuki Yukari voice bank to their website: YuyuSequencer Plus and YuyuSequencer. Finished songs can be shared via Twitter, Facebook or mixi and they are transferred via a plain text format called “YuyuSeq
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As of this writing, Hatsune Miku has now reached 393939 likes on her Facebook page. In celebration, she is running a raffle in which 39 lucky fans will win merchandise. The official page for this contest allows anyone to enter by emailing MIKUBOOK with the correct subject, name, address and a message for Miku. People
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