Sony's MR Meet & Greet Lets Vtubers Walk Into Your Space
Sony is applying its MR and digital-twin technology to the Vtuber event space, offering a way for fans to feel they have met a Vtuber face-to-face without the Vtuber breaking character or revealing their real identity.
Reporting from 1 source: MoguLive.
Sony demonstrated a new '3D Meet & Greet' service using mixed reality at SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026. The system, experienced by MoguLive with Vtuber Uruma Tamanami, uses pre-scanned digital twins of real spaces to let a Vtuber appear from behind doors, walk toward the user, and react to touch. The experience runs on a Meta Quest 3 headset and is designed to solve the problem of screen-mediated meet-and-greets that lack a sense of real presence.
The demo took place at SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, where Sony set up a studio with a pre-scanned digital twin of the room. The Vtuber, performing in a separate space, could see the user's position and make eye contact, walk through the virtual space, and even have her hand overlapped with the user's. The system uses occlusion to keep the Vtuber behind real objects like doors, a technical step that requires advance spatial data. The experience lasted only a few minutes but left the reporter with a strong sense of having met the Vtuber in person.
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