This blog post is the last post I am required to write for the class. I may or may not update the blog more in the future depending upon how proactive I am feeling. I hope you all enjoyed reading it and I still have many pictures and videos to share with everyone!
The last day of the trip we had 3 site visits to amazing companies. The amounts of different technologies that we have seen on this trip make the US look obsolete in the technological department.
The first company we visited was a game company called INIS. They made the game called Lips for the XBOX 360, and just announced a sequel to that game at E3. What was so astonishing about this game company is that most of the employees are American. They gave us a presentation in English, which was nice for a change. It was cool to see American College Graduates actually working in the heart of Japan.
The next company we visited was D3 Publishing. They have created hundreds of games both for the Japanese market and American market. They create cross-platform games that make them millions of dollars. They said their mobile market is growing the quickest in Japan because so many people have mobile phones.
Dolby: Japan was the last company we visited. It was one of the best presentations of the whole trip. They made us to wear masks during the visit but it was worth it because of the different inventions we got to see. They created vertical surround sound, a gaming communication system, and an LED TV that shows perfect black unlike our LCD TVs now that have a low shadow in the background.
It was a great end to the trip and we all went out at night after the site visits. It was all coming to an end and we realized it so we needed to go out with a blast. We went to a few bars, hung out and met some really cool people. I am glad this trip went so well and it was the best experience of my life.
With all of the technology we’ve seen in Japan, it seriously made America look like were in the stone age. It’s going to be funny when all that finally comes here and everyone’s going to have the same surprising look that we had. We are just going to be like, “meh.”