Hey guys and girls on Ask Japanese it's CathyCat
and today everything is about Japanese brain-wave reading Cat-ears
So you might be able to read my mind today
That worked
When you are relaxed, the ears go down, when you are focussed the ears go up
If you use that in a game, you should be able to win any game
So I wanna try and figure that out
Where there's a CathyCat, cats ears are never far so let's review the nekomimi cat ears
Alright
swoosh
(meowing and quacking)
There used to be a version 1, this is version 2 so let's review it!
If you want to know about version 1 there is a video i made about it,
check it out if you wanna know the differences about version 1 and version 2
So let's check the new one out
Fluffy cat ears, squish, and two sensors, one and two
Also this time there is no battery, you charge it with a USB cable
If you look closely there are two cute things you can spot
The light here is in the shape of a cat
The forehead sensor has a little cat paw on it the forehead sensor needs to go to your skin
My hint is to hide it under your fringe and make sure it touches your forehead
if it doesn't it won't work. If there's some space inbetween it won't work.
So make sure the forehead sensor actually does touch your skin
Number 2 connect it to your ear. You need the sensor to be connected to your ear
And make sure that you catch hair here or maybe a mask here
There's only one switch so let's push it
Calibrating
One ear up and one ear down is calibrating
Two ears moving is the normal mode
Both ears going down is relaxed mode
And if you are concentrating, there is a concentration mode
There is a concentration mode, we are currently... oh
Ok
I just heard a special sound I think
This time actually real cat sounds have been included
The idea is to get more cats to come to you
so you can play a bit with cats hopefully
What if I try and meditate... let's try...
It works
Maybe you have them on to do work from home to make work from home more entertaining
or when you're traveling
you can put it on if you just wanna go cosplay
Streaming on Twitch or similar
maybe on a date, see what happens if you both wear it on a date
cooking, bowling and card games are apparently
and everyone else can see the reaction and those uh
can guess easier what cards she's holding
good idea, I kind of wanna do that
Hey there introduce yourself
I am Mako
That's Mako
Today we are gonna have you in a little game, let's play.
In this game, please hide the ducky
And I will try guess where it is
I am confident I can guess it - Really?
Is it this one?
Do I have to respond? - Nope
Is it this one? - Who knows
And this one? - Who knows - Sure? - Well well
It's this one! - Who knows
It's not this one!
I think it's not this one...
Ok ok ok - Oh no
This thing is giving me away!
How about this one - It's possible
ah ah ah
You are relaxed... it is .... not this one - Ah!
You're relaxing now - I am
Hm maybe not that one
Let's pick this one
If I picked this one... I will win all the sweets...
She is trying to hide her emotions
There it was!
I feel a little relieved now that it's over
You allowed us to film you, so we will buy you some sweets
Yeees!
But more than that, we got special permission...
to talk with the maker of Nekomimi ears so
Let's find out what they say and what kind of secrets they can share with us
Nice to meet you!
Nice to meet you too
Can you tell us more about your Nekomimi ears
Nekomimi measures brain waves
It can detect "ah" moments or when you are focussing
or when you are relaxing
and these ears will express those emotions
When you relax the ears go down
They just did. - Yeah
When you are very focussed they will do a meow sound
What was hard about making this product?
Because there was no product like this on the market, it was hard to develop it
We had to think about how to move them and how often per second they should move
It was tricky to make the movement look natural
Is there something very "Japanese" about these products?
It reads brain waves, but the result the actual wearer can not see
Making a product whose benefits are visible for others is very Japanese in my opinion
How can people have fun with these ears?
If you wear them, things someone might be hiding, these ears reveal
it might show where the joker is
So simply playing trump is fun
What are your plans with the Nekomimi in the future?
Right now we are wearing these in real life right
We were hoping to find a way for them to move in the virtual space too
for example when gaming online, having your nekomimi give impulses into the game
A fusion of VR and Nekomimi?
Yes we hope that we can add real nekomimi reactions into the virtual spaces too
Any other challenges you plan to do?
There are a lot of great things you can do with brain waves. Like what is it like when you are sleeping?
When you are relaxing or when your are exercising?
Maybe we can develop nekomimi that work with that
I think that's a great idea and we need that.
Please develops something like that! - I will try
How do you want people to have fun with Nekomimi?
Well... Oh I just focussed
People who love cats can be any age or any gender
We augmented these ears to be like cat ears.
We want many people to feel closer to cats
If we have fun, we will also get along more with cats
Even if you don't do anything, these ears will move
They will express things for you
So have fun with friends using them
It doesn't always work as smoothely as it did with us in the game but
You can definitely understand certain parts of it that was a lot of fun there's a lot of ways to play
If you are curious about it, there is another video here that you can check out with more info
where I checked out the very first version of the nekomimi that came out
a couple of years ago. Thanks for checking us out
If you are curious about more, check out in the describtion box we and other's got to offer
and more about these ears
It was lovely to have you here, don't forget to subscribe and there's another video here
if you are interested in the Nekomimi cat ears that I have done when I reviewed number one
Check that one out too. Thanks for tuning in