The ARToolkit is a piece of software developed by Dr. Hirokazu Kato at the University of Washington and if you are enough of a geek you already guessed what it does. Its a software toolkit for creating Augmented Reality environments. You probably know of Augmented reality from the days of the Nintendo Revolution speculation, the technology behind the EyeToy and those webcams that replace your face with that of a cat.

However this piece of software found its way into the hands of a few diligent Otaku and what’s an otaku to do with a new tool? Use it to further the merging of reality with anime in a bid to end their loneliness. What follows are some examples of their arduous endeavors.

You start out with something simple, perhaps a motionless robot like this Tachikoma you see above. After all what would be cooler than having your own little 3D robot in your desk?

Well how about Vocaloid’s Miku dancing Caramelldansen? In fact everything after this is all about Miku, hit the jump for the rest!

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Oh boy, we’re all about fast here in the internet, aren’t we? Hope that doesn’t reflect our reputation in bed. We love game speedruns, fast downloads (for porn usually), fast music and of course, timelapse videos of geeky shit. And that’s exactly what we have! No, not porn, a timelapse video.

In this timelapse video a nameless Japanese Otaku models a 3d loli in Maya in 4 minutes of video, with music just as spastic as the video itself. Now lets all take a minute and slow down… you know what? Make that 15 seconds, and slow down fast please, I’ve got… stuff… to download.

[Japan Probe]