SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.(Japan) 株式会社スクウェア・エニックス - XRテクニカルダイレクター
広域東京エリア
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概要
XR 技術開発リーダー
ファイナルファンタジー、キングダムハーツ、ドラゴンクエストなどを手がけるスクウェア・エニックスのテクニカル・プロデューサー兼ディレクターです。15年以上のXRイニシアチブの経験を生かし、複合現実と空間コンピューティングプロジェクトの研究開発の製品・市場戦略、イノベーション、商品化をリードしています。
情熱は、MR、VR、スマート玩具、斬新なインターフェースの力を活用し、ファンタジーと現実を融合させた没入感のある魅力的な体験を創造することです。マーベル、シムシティ、スターウォーズといったハイブランドのフランチャイズの成功に貢献し、没入型仮想世界の分野で複数の特許や出版物の開発にも携わってきました。また、生涯学習者であり、MITスローン・スクール・オブ・マネジメントの戦略とイノベーションのエグゼクティブ・サーティフィケート、クアンティック・スクール・オブ・ビジネス・アンド・テクノロジーのMBA、カーネギーメロン大学コンピューターサイエンス学部のMET学位（エンターテインメント・テクノロジー修士号）を取得しています。
日本の永住者です。
Benさんの記事
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One Laptop Per Child: "Fruitix" Editor
One Laptop Per Child: "Fruitix" Editor
10 years ago today (November 16th, 2007), my friends and I, some I met for the first time at the event, created a game…
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Ben Taylor さんがリアクションしましたBen Taylor さんがリアクションしましたThis year is an especially exciting Tokyo Game Show because our oldest kid is on the show floor for the first time as a cosplayer for LoadComplete and RED BRICK HOUSE 's new game Void Diver: Escape from the Abyss! I love that Ben Taylor and I can share our love of the industry with our family and I'm so proud of Winter for showing up every day and giving it his all. Thank you Soo Jeong Bae 🔜 Tokyo Game Show for making this opportunity happen, you've got an amazing game on your hands and we're all eagerly awaiting the full release! I know TGS Monday was canceled, but if you're at the show today, come take a photo with "Mio" and the rest of the crew at their booth in Hall 09 - E23 and give the game a go! 💕
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Ben Taylor さんがシェアしましたTokyo Game Show is next week and I’ll be there for Square Enix as a Technical Producer. Looking forward to meeting up with technology partners, platform leads, and fellow creators to talk spatial computing, XR initiatives, and next-gen pre-production workflows—with scalable production value. Our industry is rapidly evolving so how are you handling it? Let’s discuss upcoming technology trends, cross-platform deployment, and business in Japan, as I’m always open to collaborative opportunities with platform partners and tech leaders across the industry. Send me a DM if you’ll be at Makuhari Messe and want to connect! #TGS2026 #TokyoGameShow #SquareEnix #SpatialComputing #XR #TechProduction #GameDev #Tokyo
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Ben Taylor さんがシェアしましたStepping back. Taking in this 30 year journey. I’m thankful to be a fan of this.
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Ben Taylor この項目を投稿しましたThis is a long shot, but I recently had a great conversation in Tokyo or Seoul with someone my senior also from Ringling College of Art and Design who was early in F.E.W.S., I believe a 90’s graduate. If this was you or you know who this could be, please reach out to me
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Ben Taylor さんがシェアしましたHi friends- I’ll be in America for the rest of this month starting next week, but won’t be at GDC. Though I’ll miss you, let me share that my old haunt, SVVR, will be holding their 100th anniversary party hosted by Nima Zeighami. Whether you’re in VR or not, this’ll be the chance to rub shoulders with the who’s who of XR, so don’t miss it.
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Ben Taylor さんがシェアしましたLast weekend my 8-year-old son (pictured) and I successfully created a physical AI application using #AMDDeveloperCloud and Hugging Face LeRobot here in Tokyo. (Full video on my Instagram) Huge thank you to Bingqing Guo, Ilya Kulyatin, Andy Luo, and everyone at AMD and WowRobo who helped us and the other AMD Developer network at the event. You created an amazing environment for us to have fun and create together.Ben Taylor さんがシェアしました🚀 What a weekend in #Tokyo! Our first AMD #OpenRoboticsHackathon brought together nearly 100 developers, 36 teams, and pure AI creativity. From donut-packing robots to moving cart, from Sushi delivery, to burger cooking robo, from Zen garden to food feeding robots... every innovation was soooooo much great, and all of these just happened within less than 3 days!!! #Developers utilized AMD #DevCloud for trainings, advanced inferencing on #RyzenAI laptops, and implemented on #SO101 robo arm kits, all participants showcased the power of open-source robotics with AMD #ROCm + Hugging Face #LeRobot from edge to the cloud. ✅ 20+ successful submissions 🏆 8 top winning teams 👽 Tech Implementation: Teleoperation, dataset capture, training, and inferencing. 🌍 Next stops: Paris Dec 12-14 & San Jose Dec 19-21 Last but not least, special thanks to Leo Xiao @wowrobo, Pepijn Kooijmans Tokyo AI (TAI) Ilya Kulyatin and AMD sales and marketing teams in Japan for the great promotion Katz Inoue Isao Sugiyama Naohisa Sumikawa Ken Takahashi Shin Takahashi Sunohara, Shinichi. We look forward to the next big success with AI Developers here!
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Ben Taylor さんがシェアしましたWhen I moved my family back to Japan 7 years ago, friends and family thought I was crazy. I had just left a high-paying job with great perks working on incredible Disney brands, my wife had just given birth to our first son in Boston, and the technology landscape in America had never been stronger. But seeing how Tokyo recently honored the U.S. with its Red, White and Blue illumination of these incredible landmarks, the love Major League Baseball fans have shown Shohei Ohtani and the other generational superstars from Japan on the Dodgers, and the recent major investments between our two countries, I feel we are in a Golden Age of relations between my home of Japan and my birthplace of the United States. Everyday I see the challenges our cultural differences can cause, but I believe these are outweighed by the potential of our two countries to create a bright future together. I’ve never been more hopeful that these places I love can come together and grow mutually, and I’m here making it happen.
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Ben Taylor さんがシェアしましたTomorrow marks the start of the 29th Tokyo Game Show, our premier event for digital games here in Japan! It’s also 17 years since FromSoftware hosted my first visit to the show (pictured), so what’s changed? Right now is an interesting time for Japan and the games industry. We find ourselves without a prime minister, much uncertainty is in the air, and in times of change, it is typical to cling to the familiar. But now is not the time to shut down- there is incredible potential to lead and define the future. If you’re in town from abroad and feel you’re coming up short on connection, I understand. Don’t let that stifle your optimism, and feel free to reach out to me to share in the excitement and celebration of Japanese entertainment! I know where you’re coming from 🕹️
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Ben Taylor さんがリアクションしましたBen Taylor さんがリアクションしましたWe Were Here Tomorrow is out now on Steam, PS5 and Xbox X/S!! Incredibly proud to share with players this incredible world our team has created. Our designers held nothing back and created some of the most mind boggling puzzles in the genre, which you can find in a carefully crafted and beautifully looking and sounding retro-futurustic setting, with a bunch of new features to top it off. The script was written by best-selling author Claire North and voiced by a top notch cast (incl. Sophie Okonedo and CDawgVA). As a first for our studio, all voices have been translated to Japanese, Chinese, Spanish Latam and Brazilian Portuguese. Couldn't be more proud of everything our team was able to achieve with this game! Steam Link: https://lnkd.in/eJVa8W3D
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Ben Taylor さんがリアクションしましたBen Taylor さんがリアクションしましたI am pleased to share that I have joined as Senior Professor in the Department of Commerce, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.I am deeply grateful to my colleagues and well-wishers for their warmth, encouragement, and good wishes on this occasion.I look forward to continuing my academic journey with renewed dedication to teaching, research, mentoring young scholars.
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Ben Taylor さんがリアクションしましたBen Taylor さんがリアクションしましたIn July of 2022, I went back to work for Hasbro. Last week, after 25 years total with the company, I was laid off. It is time for me to say goodbye. I will always value the time I spent at Hasbro. My family and I moved with the company three times, and Hasbro became a very meaningful part of our lives. Most of all, I had an incredible amount of fun creating games there. I won’t list all the games I created, but I do want to mention some of my favorites: HeroScape, Star Wars Queen’s Gambit, Sorry Sliders, Connect 4 Launchers, Clue FX, Star Wars Epic Duels, Risk 2210 AD, Battleship Galaxies, MTG Arena of the Planeswalkers, and my very first game for Milton Bradley/Hasbro, Goosebumps: Terror in the Graveyard. Recently, at an all games meeting, I was called out for having reached 25 years at Hasbro. This is what I said at the meeting. “The games are great to create, but the special thing about Hasbro is all the people who help you make a great game, and you have fun doing it. The creative designers, narrative designers, engineers, project management, and of course marketing, all contributing, all striving to make the best games. I am blessed.” Looking back now, I realize just how true that is. I was incredibly fortunate to work with so many talented and wonderful people over those 25 years. I could try to list all of you, but the list would be far too long, and I know I would leave someone out. You know who you are. We shared some great experiences, created some great games, and made some great memories. Thank you to everyone who was part of that journey. And now, it’s on to the next chapter. I’m excited to see what the future will bring. One thing I know for certain, I’ll be designing games for the rest of my life.
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Ben Taylor さんがリアクションしましたBen Taylor さんがリアクションしましたSuper proud to share some huge news from our Techstars Tokyo 2025 cohort! 🚀 Our portfolio company O-ID has officially raised $1.2M (約2億円) in pre-seed funding! Huge congratulations to founders Stian Jakobsen and Simon Gormuzov! Manufacturing globally and especially here in Japan is facing massive labor shortages (an estimated 11M worker gap in Japan alone). O-ID is tackling this head-on right here in Tokyo with their hot-swappable, modular humanoid robots. Instead of sending a malfunctioning robot back to the manufacturer, their modular setup lets factory teams swap failed parts in under five minutes on the factory floor, taking their AP-1 model from prototype straight into production. Incredible to see them backed by Hustle Fund, Tawani Ventures, and an amazing group of angel investors! As Manager at Techstars Tokyo, supporting ambitious founders like Stian and Simon is exactly why we do what we do. From refining their pitch to scaling their Tokyo presence, seeing their execution turn into a $1.2M pre-seed round is tremendously rewarding. This is just the beginning 📈 #Techstars #TechstarsTokyo #DeepTech #Robotics #FutureOfWork #StartupFunding #VentureCapital
職務経験
学歴
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カーネギーメロン大学
技術経営系 - MET School of Computer Science
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"The MET is considered a professional, terminal degree. It is the academic pinnacle of studies in this field, thus having greater significance than the M.A. or M.S., and the equivalent academic weight of the M.F.A. and/or M.B.A. degree"
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Ringling College of Art and Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA
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America’s preeminent school for computer graphics and frequent winner of ACM SIGGRAPH and Student Academy Awards
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ハーバード大学
East Asian Studies, Japanese
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ゼミ・クラブ・サークル:Harvard Anime Society
In-person on campus in Cambridge, MA; not online
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The Kiski School
High School Diploma
ゼミ・クラブ・サークル:Archery Captain, Fencing Club President, 4yr Art Club President, German, K-Club, Debate, Acting, Swimming, Tennis, Soccer
The oldest remaining non-military all-male boarding school in the United States, founded in 1888
資格
ボランティア経験
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Technical Advisor
New England Institute of Technology
– 3年6ヶ月
学歴
- NEIT Technical Advisor Committee for the Masters in Applied Design Program (As of 6/2017)
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Technical Advisor
DeVry University
– 8年7ヶ月
学歴
- Member of the National Advisory Committee of DeVry University's College of Engineering & Information Sciences Engineering Technology Programs.
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Judge
FIRST
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科学技術
- Judge robotics projects from local STEM education programs. (San Francisco, 2010 - 2014; New England, 2015 - 2018)
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Chair Of The Board Of Directors
International Game Developers Association (IGDA®)
– 3年9ヶ月
科学技術
Strengthening the local community by creating a safe and positive collaborative culture, bringing in industry speakers, connecting professionals, and disseminating educational resources and opportunities in the field of game development.
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Code.org
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学歴
- Volunteer teaching STEM programming through game development and robotics. Each year I assist the Hour of Code campaign in the US.
出版物
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Annual Game Career Guide 2014
Game Career Guide
Dawn Rivers (Cinematographer at Harmonix Music Systems) and Ben Taylor (Technical Designer of Integrated Play at Hasbro) talk about "Making the Leap" into the Games Industry. (p. 90 - 93)
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Sandbox symposium pitch game post-mortem
Sandbox '06 Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on Videogames
Pitch was an attempt by students and interns at Carnegie-Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center [ETC] graduate program to create a casual social card game for the Sandbox Symposium. The Sandbox Symposium, a gathering focused on games and the gaming industry from an academic perspective, was held in association with SIGGRAPH Boston the weekend of July 28-31, 2006.
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特許
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RICH MEDIA MESSAGING SYSTEMS AND METHODS
出願日: US US 20150100647A1
A method for surfacing rich media content using contextual tags in a text-based messaging system.
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講習コース
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Building Virtual Worlds
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プロジェクト
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Storymaker
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プロジェクトを表示"Bar Karma is the first online community-developed network television series. Online users pitch their own ideas for scenes and twists online, using a tool designed by Will Wright called the Storymaker. Some are eventually chosen by the production staff, and are utilized to help create a new episode every week."
受賞歴
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MIT Media Lab's Reality, Virtually Hackathon: Grand Prize in AR - CosplayAR
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Our team won the Grand Prize in AR (sponsored by AT&T) and the Best Object Augmentation award (sponsored by PTC Vuforia) for our augmented reality clothing studio app "CosplayAR"
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Boston Festival of Indie Games 2014: Best Single Player Design - Alien Makeout Simulator
Boston Festival of Indie Games
Our team won best Single Player Design in the Digital Games Showcase for our hit Oculus DK2 Virtual Reality experience "Alien Makeout Simulator" http://www.alienmakeout.com/
言語
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English
母国語またはバイリンガル
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Japanese
ビジネス中級
組織
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IEEE
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Project Management Institute
PMI ID: 5479331
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"AI fluency = critical use + applied use" A.I. can be both intimidating and misunderstood (in what one should and should not expect from it). One example is that LLMs cannot be 100% reliable and safe *by design* , which means we should know when to use them, how, and more importantly in which context. I've been trying to formalize the steps it takes from AI litteracy to AI leadership, and I stumbled on this publication that summarizes it way better than I would (with our without an LLM btw :-) ) "A Five-Step Progression to AI Fluency (For Adults and for Students)" (link in the first comment) 👇
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85.8% of surveyed Japanese game developers are already using generative AI in their work. That number from CESA caught my attention. 63% said they use it regularly, with another 22.8% using it occasionally. But I think the bigger discussion is no longer simply whether game companies should use AI. It is how they use it. ithis adoption will surely increase in the coming months and years. The companies surveyed pointed to productivity, shorter development time and lower development and operating costs as some of the expected benefits. Multilingual support and global expansion were also among the areas identified. foresee more of AI adoption use in areas or live ops and marketing moving forward. At the same time, human review remains an important part of the process. Companies are restricting which AI tools can be used and avoiding the direct use of AI-generated output without further human involvement. This is probably where the next stage of AI adoption becomes more important. What can AI do? What should AI do? Where should humans remain responsible? And how do companies protect their IP, data and creative quality while still gaining the productivity benefits? AI adoption may be moving quickly. The harder part may be building the right processes around it. Source: This Is Game SEA / CESA #GrabberMedia #ThisIsGameSEA #GamePublishing #GamingIndustry #SoutheastAsia
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