ｅスポーツや拡張現実が集結＝東京ゲームショウ開幕

　世界有数のゲーム見本市「東京ゲームショウ２０１９」が１２日、千葉市の幕張メッセで開幕した。現実の映像にキャラクターを登場させる拡張現実（ＡＲ）技術や次世代通信規格「５Ｇ」を使った展示などが注目を集めそうだ。コンピューターゲームで対戦する「ｅスポーツ」のイベントなども開かれる。

　ＡＲはスマートフォン用ゲーム「ポケモンＧＯ（ゴー）」などに使われる技術。コナミデジタルエンタテインメント（東京）は、サッカーゲーム「ウイニングイレブン」の映像をＡＲを使って映し出す。セガゲームス（同）はパズルゲーム「ぷよぷよ」でｅスポーツ大会を開く。（2019/09/12-10:24）

Tokyo Game Show 2019 kicked off at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba, east of Tokyo, on Thursday, featuring exhibits using the latest technology such as augmented reality and fifth-generation wireless communications.
   The four-day game show, attended by some 650 companies, will accept visitors from the game industry and the media in the first two days and will be open to the general public during the weekend. Approximately 250,000 people are expected to visit the event.
   Konami Digital Entertainment Co. is exhibiting a version of its "Winning Eleven" soccer game series that uses AR technology. The technology, employed in games such as the popular smartphone app Pokemon Go, is used to superimpose video game characters and other computer-generated content onto real-life videos and images.
   NTT Docomo Inc. is hosting a smartphone soccer game tournament using 5G technology, allowing some 50 groups of players to face each other off at the same time.
   Connecting this many players in a small area to the same Internet game would cause lags under conventional telecommunication networks, a critical shortcoming for titles that require speedy, responsive gameplay. NTT Docomo hopes to use the tournament to show off its 5G network, which is capable of quickly transmitting large volumes of data and thus can resolve the lag issue.