These days it seems that no signage show would be complete without the virtual assistants and in Japan that maxim is probably doubly so. It certainly was this week at #dsj2011 at the massive Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba.
In Japan, realism easily gives way to a strong preference for anime inspired Virtual Assistants, as our head of R&D said to me “all we need now are the tentacles”