Title | SHIBUYA VIRTUAL HALLOWEEN |
Brand | AU BY KDDI, FUTURE DESIGN SHIBUYA |
Product / Service | SHIBUYA CITY, KDDI |
Category | C08. Market Disruption |
Entrant | GEOMETRY OGILVY JAPAN Tokyo, JAPAN |
Idea Creation | GEOMETRY OGILVY JAPAN Tokyo, JAPAN |
Name | Company | Position |
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Doug Schiff | Geometry Ogilvy Japan | Chief Creative Officer |
Yasushi Arikawa | Geometry Ogilvy Japan | Creative Director |
Hiroyuki Furuta | Geometry Ogilvy Japan | Art Director |
Eriko Tanii | Geometry Ogilvy Japan | Associate Art Director |
Naoya Kataoka | Geometry Ogilvy Japan | Copywriter |
Iori Hayakawa | Geometry Ogilvy Japan | Designer |
Takuya Murakami | Geometry Ogilvy Japan | Account Director |
Tadao Ieda | Geometry Ogilvy Japan | Account Director |
Ikko Nakata | Geometry Ogilvy Japan | Senior Digital Producer |
Junya Takahashi | Geometry Ogilvy Japan | Activation Director |
Takehiro Shishido | Geometry Ogilvy Japan | Senior Activation Executive |
Takehito Hikida | Geometry Ogilvy Japan | Creative Producer / Activation Manager |
Morris Ku | Geometry Ogilvy Japan | Creative Video Director |
Aki Sugawara | Geometry Ogilvy Japan | Creative Services Director |
Satoshi Kuno | CLIVER | Executive Producer |
Akihiko Narita | Cluster | Executive Director |
Ryoya Ino | Cluster | Director |
Masahiro Hashimoto | Cluster | Director |
Juji Kawaguchi | Cluster | Director |
Kazuki Nomura | Cluster | Director |
Yuto Sano | Cluster | Director |
Tomomi Shinohara | Cluster | Designer |
Keita Shibagaki | Cluster | Designer |
Akimi Miyamoto | Cluster | Designer |
Naoki Tanazawa | Cluster | Designer |
Atsunori Toshi | A4A | Film Director |
Shibuya City in the heart of Tokyo had everything to make it the world's ultimate melting pot of culture – it's world famous 'Scramble Crossing' a perfect metaphor for its unique magic. Shibuya has become a significant contributor to the culture of Tokyo and acts as a focal point for seasonal celebrations and events. Recently, Shibuya’s urban landscape was reaching a tipping point – increasingly over-commercialized – tilting Shibuya’s delicate balance, diluting it’s character, and in the process threatening the rich creative ecosystem that made it so special. Shibuya was at risk of losing it’s soul in the late 2010s. To address this challenge the organization Future Design Shibuya (FDS) was created as an innovation hub for Shibuya City. It’s aim was to explore the possibilities of modern urban development and create innovative projects to promote Shibuya as a model city of the future. But just as FDS was getting started Covid struck. We needed to bring Shibuya back to life and show the city as a beacon of cultural vitality in the face of Covid restriction and fear. Creative Idea Virtual Shibuya: Reinventing the trend-setting youth culture of Shibuya for the digital-first era. Our brief was to reinvent and enhance the creative and cultural magic of Shibuya. There were three main pillars in bringing Virtual Shibuya to life: Reinventing Place: We leveraged XR technology to reimagine the physical Shibuya environment in virtual world. Shibuya’s symbolic “Scramble Crossing” became center stage for Virtual Shibuya. We took the physical appearance of the streets and surrounding buildings to create familiarity with the location then utilized this new environment to enable spaces for events, media, and partner activation. Virtual Shibuya was then announced in an online press conference and through press releases under the moniker “UNLIMITED REALITY” – a name that helped frame the type of experience that awaited our audience. Reinventing Experience: With Shibuya taking shape in the virtual world we integrated an event platform to enable the city to come to life with immersive experiences including customization and gamified interactions. Once inside people were represented by their avatar and could freely explore. 3DCG was leveraged to create the event spaces and the stage for our celebrity avatar performers. Participating avatars could react to the experiences they enjoyed by cheering as if there in person. The experience was integrated to social channels where participants were given chances to win exclusive merchandise. Reinventing Events: Virtual Shibuya is set up as a mixed reality environment; providing digital experiences while enabling interaction in the “real world” and via social media channels and at-home AR. As a marketing ecosystem for events the integration of the experience and content with digital/social and traditional media is unparalleled. The existence of Virtual Shibuya has created a place for City of Shibuya to host music concerts, seasonal activations such as Halloween, and brand pop-ups to launch new products or entertainment content. This enables events with scalability, flexibility, and creativity beyond what was possible in the physical-only world.