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102The special event “INTER BEE IGNITION NIGHT” by INTER BEE IGNITION was held at Hall 4 in the venue of INTER BEE IGNITION. While the venue’s exhibition hours had already ended, this special event was held by using lighting exclusively at INTER BEE IGNI-TION area. There were more than 200 visitors at the venue. On stage to present the program were Mr. Hideki Hashimoto, Manager at New Business Promotion Division, Corporate Planning & Strategy Group, Corporate Planning & Administration Unit of SKY Perfect JSAT, and Mr. Akihiro Habuchi, commonly known as “Habuchin”. At Pasona Career, Mr. Habuchi launched the “Hacker Club!” programming education project for those who are in charge of planning. He is known as the chairperson of a hackathon for government officials and citizens alike. ■Key is the extent to which a feeling of presence can be enjoyedAt the beginning of the event, Mr. Hashimoto explained the aim of the event as follows: “This event is a project with the theme of pursuing the new reality of live entertainment. The live entertainment market has been grow-ing since the year 2000, and it has already grown to have a market of 520 billion yen including live music, entertainment, stage perfor-mances, etc., and it continues to expand. On the other hand, the live capacity has been reaching its limit, and the room for market growth is limited in this situation. Business expansion can be expected by simulcasting with both live viewing and public viewing. The big key is how people who can’t come to the venue can sense the audience feeling and enjoying the show. To achieve this, we need Internet distribution technology, application of the newest technology for 4K8K high-resolution video, and creativity and originality by produc-ers. This trial aims to inspect how viewers can sense the realistic feeling of a live stage by using 4K8K movies, various technologies and performance. Based on these three hypotheses, I want people to experience through actual performance and I am eager to hear com-ments from the venue.”■New reality produced by the InternetMr. Habuchi continued with the following comment: “A change to the sense of reality is about to happen in the world of the Internet. One thing is the key phrase ‘live x technology’. The newest technologies such as VR are creating experiences such as Perfume live shows and the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics. This gives the impression of ‘real fantasy’ rather than a ‘sense of reality’, and though it’s a space that mixes the past, present, future, live action and CG, it’s possible to feel it as a real experience. The other key phrase is ‘live x communication’. For example, you update your status on SNS and then get a reaction in the form of ‘Likes’. The reaction itself is felt as the proof of experience and makes one feel the reality. There should be the possibility in performance to feel the new reality in live viewing. To begin with, I want to inspect perfor-mance using 4K live movies as the first trial.”■Synchronizing movies and live actionOn the stage at Hall 7 in the venue, the inspection was preceded by distributing 4K live movies of a performance by popular idol group STARMARIE and adding directions according to the three hypotheses. The venue became very lively as the fans of STARMA-RIE also joined in, and interactive communication with the members of STARMARIE at Hall 7, together with a performance presented by two of the five members who actually came to the INTER BEE IGNI-TION venue at Hall 4.Since the members on the projector were screened almost at actual size and the performance was spectacular like the performance in front of the projector by the two members, there were many in the audience who changed their position to superimpose the members on the screen hanging above with the two actually dancing on the stage. One comment from the venue was as follows: “When watching a live performance from a theater, there is the feeling that it’s performed far away. But with the live performance on 4K projectors, we could get the sense of reality that we could almost touch.”Mr. Hashimoto noted that there were many who changed their positions to watch the performance as mentioned before and concluded that, “I think the audience could feel the possibilities of new reality. I think it will be possible to hold live events at several locations with stage effects and performances by using 4K8K and holo-grams, etc. I definitely want to lead this inspection to the next step.”11月17日（木） 17:45-19:00「INTER BEE IGNITION NIGHT 2016」“INTER BEE IGNITION NIGHT 2016”5:45 PM - 7:00 PM, Thursday, November 17th