Osaka, Japan, February twenty first, 2025, Chainwire
It is going to be the world’s first absolutely built-in AI + XR + DePIN ecosystem working at city-wide scaleMawari has already executed over 50 profitable XR initiatives worldwide, bringing AI-driven 3D avatars in actual time
Mawari, a DePIN pioneering lifelike AI brokers with real-time 3D streaming, is delighted to announce that it has partnered with Nankai Electrical Railway Co., Ltd., considered one of Japan’s oldest personal railway operators, Meta Osaka Co., Ltd and e-stadium Co., Ltd., to create the “Digital Leisure Metropolis Namba.” This groundbreaking city improvement undertaking would be the world’s first absolutely built-in AI + XR + DePIN ecosystem working at city-wide scale.
Mawari’s AI-driven 3D avatars unlock the total potential of AI brokers by providing a brand new stage of immersion and interplay that can revolutionize the way in which we reside, work, and socialize. These AI-driven characters can deal with duties starting from vacationer steerage to customer support, creating intuitive, human-like interactions that transcend language obstacles and revolutionize how we expertise AI.
Collectively created by Mawari, Nankai Electrical Railway, Meta Osaka and e-stadium, the Digital Leisure Metropolis Namba will combine AI-powered 3D avatars, XR (prolonged actuality) know-how, and a decentralized bodily infrastructure community (DePIN) right into a cohesive city expertise. It redefines how cities can combine digital experiences equivalent to AI and XR to unravel social challenges and ship transformative leisure.
“At Mawari, our mission is to make AI-driven immersive experiences accessible to everybody,” mentioned Luis Oscar Ramirez, CEO of Mawari. “Uniting AI, XR, and DePIN in ‘Digital Leisure Metropolis Namba’ is a landmark second for the whole business, demonstrating a transparent path to mass adoption with tangible social influence. Our collaboration with Nankai Electrical Railway, Meta Osaka and e-stadium transforms city areas, creates new work alternatives, and brings decentralized infrastructure into on a regular basis life for numerous communities.”
Established in 1885, Nankai is considered one of Japan’s oldest personal railway operators with over 100 stations served throughout a number of traces. It anchors the undertaking within the metropolis of Osaka. Nankai sees a future the place stations and properties aren’t simply transit factors, however immersive digital hubs. Meta Osaka, then again, contributes revolutionary technique and native ecosystem improvement.
Mawari will deploy edge compute and rendering units all through Nankai’s stations and properties, bringing computation nearer to customers and enabling smoother, high-quality digital experiences at scale. This decentralized streaming infrastructure ensures real-time 3D content material, together with lifelike AI Brokers with a physique and soul, is rendered and delivered with minimal latency. Mawari’s know-how reduces bandwidth utilization by 80%, considerably reducing prices and guaranteeing easy, high-quality streaming.
“Beginning in 2023, the Nankai Group has been working to rework the Namba space into an ‘ENTAME-DIVER-CITY’ that can notice co-creation with quite a lot of stakeholders and make the world extra enticing by way of the facility of leisure,” commented Nobuyuki Okajima, President and COO of Nankai Electrical Railway Co., Ltd. “As a part of this, we opened the e-Stadium Namba Predominant Department, an e-sports facility, in August 2024 at Namba Parks, a business facility operated by Nankai Electrical Railway, and have collaborated with MetaOsaka. We’ve got now launched the “Digital Leisure Metropolis Namba” undertaking, and can proceed to develop the Namba-Shinsekai space, together with Tsutenkaku, which turned a part of our group in December 2024, to create a ‘future metropolis’ with leisure at its core that can hold guests entertained.”
Leveraging its patented prolonged actuality (XR) streaming know-how, Mawari overlays digital content material—equivalent to digital idols and anime characters—onto bodily landmarks (e.g., Namba Parks, e-Stadium, Tsutenkaku). This next-generation leisure mix merges the true and digital worlds, permitting for immersive storytelling, interactive occasions, and cultural showcases.
Mawari and Nankai intention to supply experiences that cater to numerous customers—distant staff, inbound vacationers, households, seniors, individuals with disabilities, and extra. Japan attracted 23 million overseas vacationers in 2023. With multi-lingual 3D guides and interactive XR content material, vacationers achieve transformative experiences and intuitive navigation, whereas native companies profit from elevated foot visitors and world consideration.
Furthermore, the Digital Leisure Metropolis Namba will allow distant staff—together with caregivers, mother and father, seniors, and other people with disabilities—to work together and contribute by way of immersive, AI-driven avatars. Japan faces an estimated 11 million employee scarcity by 2040. This inclusive method addresses its labor shortages by opening versatile employment alternatives in tourism, customer support, and different service industries, all managed through real-time 3D interfaces.
Mawari has been pioneering the sphere of spatial computing since 2019, having already executed over 50 profitable XR initiatives worldwide, bringing AI-driven 3D avatars into augmented actuality in actual time. By enabling community-driven innovation, the Mawari Community breaks by way of conventional technological limitations, delivering wealthy, dynamic experiences that redefine consumer interactions in real-world environments.
ABOUT NANKAI ELECTRIC RAILWAY
Based in 1885, Nankai Electrical Railway Co., Ltd. was the primary railway firm in Japan to be established purely by personal capital. It presently operates three major traces from its landmark terminal in Namba, Osaka: the Nankai Line to Wakayama, the Koya Line to the Koyasan (Mount Koya) World Heritage Website and a line operating to Kansai Worldwide Airport. Whereas centered primarily on railway, bus and different transportation operations, the Nankai Group can be concerned in actual property (rental workplace house and residential developments), retail (purchasing middle administration), workplace constructing upkeep and different leisure and repair companies, in addition to building and different operations.
ABOUT MAWARI
Mawari is the world’s first DePIN for Spatial Computing, enabling the mass adoption of AI brokers. The Mawari Community powers real-time streaming of immersive AI-driven experiences with near zero latency globally. Mawari’s fusion of AI + XR seamlessly blends digital intelligence with bodily actuality, delivering lifelike 3D Avatar AI brokers immediately.
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ABOUT META OSAKA
Meta Osaka is an organization that’s dedicated to digital innovation and regional revitalization, primarily in Osaka, and offers options that make the most of the most recent know-how. We’re contributing to the event of next-generation good cities and digital infrastructure whereas profiting from the distinctive traits of the area.
ABOUT e-stadium
Nankai Electrical Railway Group’s e-Stadium Inc. is devoted to addressing social points by way of eSports. Within the eSports facility operation enterprise (together with companion services), a dedication has been made to establishing a wholesome eSports surroundings since its inception. By actively collaborating with native colleges, municipalities, and companies, the purpose is to foster eSports as a constructive and thriving tradition inside the neighborhood and to proceed selling this initiative.
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