The concept of a "VR boyfriend" seems to have existed for a long time.
The continuous popularity of "VR Girlfriend" and the clarion call of women to the game have made people often hang up on the non-existent "VR Boyfriend" when talking about the development direction of the VR industry.
Not only is the player's ridiculous mention, on April 1 last year, the producer of "VR Girlfriend", I (Illusion), also announced a "VR Boyfriend":
The game uses the same scene as VR Girlfriend, and even the demonstration action such as sit-ups is exactly the same as VR Girlfriend. However, from the production level, it is basically certain that this is an April Fool's Day joke made by the I Society, but even so, this promotional film has attracted many media to spread as a serious propaganda film, and has also aroused a lot of relevant discussions.
At this time, the "VR boyfriend" is still just a concept that exists and people's impressions.
Large factories have the ideological baggage of large factories, and small factories have the technical limitations of small factories. If there is really a VR boyfriend, the initiator may really only be the I Society. As a "well-anticipated" project, they finally finalized the plan in September of the same year, but there was no news of the specific content.
A year later, I finally officially released the promotional film of "VR Boyfriend", and the relevant information was also released.
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Unlike the traditional product front of I, VR Boyfriend (VR カレシ) will land on the mobile phone platform (iOS / Android), and the proportion of female users using mobile phones as game platforms is much higher than that of PCs or consoles, which should be the most important basis for I to make such a judgment.
In the official announcement of the I Society, the most important emphasis is on their pinching system, which is indeed the strength of the I Society. But in a previous interview, they also mentioned that pinching people in the VR field is more technically difficult than ordinary 3D, which is why VR Girlfriend does not use a player free modeling system.
Cafes, guys, cats, and familiar placements of murals are reminiscent of another parallel game world
During this time, after testing the waters on several other VR products (V-Katsu, etc.), they seemed to be much more confident in their own VR modeling technology. In "VR Boyfriend", the male protagonist's body type, hairstyle, skin tone, and newly added "muscle mass" can already be adjusted with a relatively high degree of freedom.
Because you can freely adjust the body shape and appearance, the three different styles of dubbing that come with the game can also be freely configured by the player to match the beautiful shell.
It is worth noting that these dubbings also come from three of the more weighty voice actors - Shotaro Morikubo, Chihiro Suzuki and Yoshimasa Hosoya.
In the real machine screen that has been announced so far, it can be clearly seen that the specific gameplay and function of the game can be seen, and the content categories that can be selected are plot, work, handmade items, etc.; in the middle is the card drawing and store system; and also has AR and VR functions.
The VR scenes in the game need to be eaten with VR glasses on the mobile phone
In addition, the "feeling groove" in the upper left corner is very familiar to many old players of the I Society, but this product is positioned as "all-age", and there should be no strange things happening to the crazy point there.