Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends

[n2doc]

Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:55 PM ET

Long a favorite of lovers and honeymooners, a Japanese beach town with fading sparkle has found a new tourism niche in the wired age by drawing young men and their virtual girlfriends.

One recent sweltering summer's day, a tour bus from Tokyo pulled up at a sun-kissed beach at Atami, a Pacific coast resort southwest of the metropolis, and disgorged more than a dozen excited, iPhone-clutching young men.

The determined youngsters, paying scant attention to the bikini-clad girls frolicking on the sand, instead headed straight for a bronze statue that depicts Kanichi and Omiya, a couple from an old love story set in Atami.

The focus of the men's attention -- and of their smartphone cameras -- was a tiny black and white square, a two-dimensional barcode that, thanks to "augmented reality" (AR) software, brought to life the object of their desire.

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no wonder Japan's birthrate is low....

[rug]

1. They should talk to this guy.

[n2doc]

3. Ah, but there's a problem with that

[seabeyond]

2. we dont need no stinkin woman when we have our porn and high tech fake stuff... ah well.

bah hahaha. about pathetic.

on edit: oh and robots and pillows to hug

[NV Whino]

4. This is entirely too kinky

even for my kinky mind.