**Weathernews’ “Weatherroid Airi”, approaching 10 years of the oldest Vtuber**
Do you know the existence of “Vtuber”? Vtuber is an abbreviation of “Virtual Youtuber”, a person who uses a virtual character to post videos and distribution videos that reflect human movements with motion capture on YouTube. Point.
In recent years, the Vtuber industry has been booming, but there are â??corporate official Vtubersâ? that enter the industry with the name of the company on their backs.
In this series, we will talk to the person in charge of a company that has introduced Vtuber as the face of the company, and approach the secret story of its birth and the thoughts of the person in charge.
This time, the 6th installment, is the official Vtuber “Weatherroid Airi” of Weathernews, the world’s largest private weather information company that supports Japan’s “weather information”. We spoke with Airi Yamagishi, a weather newscaster and manager.
https://news.mynavi.jp/techplus/article/Vtuber-6/
https://news.mynavi.jp/techplus/article/Vtuber-6/