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Facial Sports — key visual
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Facial Sports — key visual

2022

Facial Sports

Sports for facial muscle

A set of muscles almost everyone uses every day, and yet a sport has barely ever focused on them. The muscles of the face.

Our idea is to build a sport around exactly those muscles. Using face recognition and AR, we turn facial movement into competition.

Age, gender, ability — none of it matters here. Even people who think of themselves as not athletic can join in, as long as they have a face. The exhaustion afterwards is unmistakably a sport's, and yet the whole thing is funny and warm. A completely new kind of digital sport.

Credit

  • Concept / Design: Kosuke Takahashi
  • Design Engineer: Hiromu Fuji
  • Programmer: Genki Toyama
  • 3D Designer: Shintaro Nakajima
  • Supervision: Naoki Uchida (Physical Therapist)
  • Special Support: Laila Cassim, Alex Gota Saito, Hibiki Hosoi, Narumi Kikuchi
  • Support: V2_ Unstable Media

Status

Licensed to partners

Collaborated with World Yuru-Sports Association

Awards

  • 🇯🇵 GOOD DESIGN AWARD (2021)

Exhibitions

  • 🇦🇹 Schmiede Hallein (2024)
Facial Sports — key visual