Sony - FUTURE PROOF : Express Yourself, Be Yourself

Poppy, upbeat music plays throughout. An avatar of a blonde woman wearing a black and red dress and a bat-shaped hair clip dances on a lined virtual grid. A white logo appears in the top right corner of the screen.

ONSCREEN TEXT: SONY

A sleek room adorned with brown wall tiles and a desk sweeps over the lined virtual grid. The avatar continues to dance in the room. Then, the avatar stands before a black background being interviewed. A purple arch with white text appears at the bottom left of the screen.

ONSREEN TEXT: Ringo Kujo
Virtual Artist
Sony Music Entertainment “VEE”

Ringo speaks in Japanese, and a translation appears in small yellow subtitles at the bottom of the screen.

RINGO
“One of the reasons it is so easy to express yourself in VR is that anyone can be a completely different person from the moment they step into their avatar.”

A white title appears over a purple background, flanked by two grey semi-circles.

ONSCREEN TEXT: Express Yourself,
Be Yourself

The screen splits into three panels, and the avatar poses and dances over changing colorful backgrounds.

RINGO
“All human beings are beautiful. I believe the virtual world is one of the best ways to express exactly who you are.”

Two men sit at a table in a conference room. One takes notes as the other waves his hands in front of a smartphone attached to a tripod. On the smartphone, an avatar with green skin and silver hair mimics his hand movements.

A man straps small, round sensors around his ankles and wrists, clips one into the waistband of his shorts. A grey app screen appears on the right of the screen, filled with white text.

ONSCREEN TEXT: Launching the sensors

ONSCREEN TEXT: HEAD

ONSCREEN TEXT: WRIST R

ONSCREEN TEXT: WRIST L

ONSCREEN TEXT: HIP

ONSCREEN TEXT: ANKLE R

ONSCREEN TEXT: ANKLE L

A check mark appears next to each sensor as it connects to the app screen. The man presses the button for a sensor labeled “Head,” and all the sensors in the app are listed as “Connected.”

Now, the man dances as an avatar of a woman with strawberry blonde hair does the same dance in the app. Buttons within the app include “AVATAR,” “BACKGROUND,” “MIRROR,” “MIC,” “LIBRARY,” “RESET POSE,” and “RECALIBRATE.”

A man in a black blazer, Masashige Kommatsu, interviews before a black background. A purple bubble with white text appears at the bottom left of the screen.

ONSREEN TEXT: Masashige Kommatsu
General Manager
Business Incubation Platform
Sony Group Corporation

Masashige speaks in Japanese, and a translation appears in small yellow subtitles at the bottom of the screen.

MASASHIGE
“By providing simple tools like mocopi and ToF AR, we can stimulate the creativity that everyone has and more people will be able to express themselves across generations and borders.”

A split screen shows the man in the conference room raising his hands on the left, while the green-skinned avatar matches his movements on the right. Another man crouches in a martial arts pose before a brown tiled wall. The screen sweeps to a virtual background of the same room, with an avatar mimicking his motions. Then, the same avatar appears over the lined virtual grid. Someone stands outside, holding their smartphone with a smile as they watch an avatar dance onscreen.

A grey screen splits into grey semi-circles over a purple background. The left half circle has a white logo.

ONSCREEN TEXT: FUTURE PROOF

 [Japanese surtitle]

White text on the right reads:

ONSCREEN TEXT: SONY

The view fades to a rainbow background that deepens to black. A chime sounds as white text appears in the center:

ONSCREEN TEXT: SONY