Mawari And Nankai Electric Railway Bet On AI-Driven Smart Cities In Osaka

Japan’s third-largest city, Osaka, is set to become a testing ground for AI-driven, extended reality (XR) urban environments. In partnership with Nankai Electric Railway, Meta Osaka, and e-Stadium, tech company Mawari is launching the Digital Entertainment City Namba, an ambitious project integrating AI-powered avatars, spatial computing, and decentralized infrastructure at a city-wide scale.

If successful, this initiative could redefine how cities use…