BEATBOX MONK, JAPAN Yogetsu Akasaka, a Japanese musician and Buddhist monk, presenting a livestream beatboxing performance at his home in Tokyo. Akasaka has become a viral phenomenon with ...Image by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP
EXPENSIVE DAYS, SINGAPORE Blockchain entrepreneur Vignesh Sundaresan, also known by his pseudonym MetaKovan, shows the digital artwork &lsquoEverydays: The First 5,000 Days&rsquo by artist...Image by ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP
A TOKEN ART, INDIA Natlet, an artwork by Susanta Kumar Panda and Ramakanta Samantaray, highlights the perfect beauty of nature and the fatality of unchecked rampant urban expansion. It&rsq...Image by COURTESY TERRAIN.ART
STARRY NIGHT, CANADA Assistant director Nicolas Babillon calibrates the set-up before a preview of Imagine Van Gogh, an immersive digital art exhibition at the Vancouver Convention Centre...Image by ANDREW CHIN / GETTY IMAGES
STARRY NIGHT-2, CANADA Created by French artistic directors Annabelle Mauger and Julien Baron, the massive projections create a space where people experience van Gogh&rsquos art in ways un...Image by MERT ALPER DERVIS / ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES
MEET GEISHA PROJECT, JAPAN A geisha rehearses for an online drinking party with clients in Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture. With the pandemic forcing the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olymp...Image by PHILIP FONG / AFP
KINKY PLAY, USA Dominatrix Madame Margherite rehearses in front of her laptop in her dungeon ahead of a virtual strip club event livestreamed on September 4, 2020, in Los Angeles, Californ...Image by VALERIE MACON / AFP
DIGITAL DRAG, ITALY At an atelier filled with shelves overflowing with wigs, feathers and hundreds of stage costumes, Karma B prepares for her livestreamed performance on StageIt. The aim ...Image by ALESSANDRO SERRANO’ / AGF / UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGES
VITAMIN CLOWN, GERMANY Clinic clown &lsquoVitamins&rsquo (real name Ute von Koerber) conjures up surprises and humours 11-year-old Pauline online, who is recovering at a hospital in Cottbu...Image by CHRISTOPH SOEDER / PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES
MEMORABLY GROUNDED, JAPAN Katsuo Enuoe and his daughter enjoy the trimmings of a business class cabin and soak up the sights of Florence and Rome&mdashwithout ever leaving Tokyo. Tapping i...Image by KIM KYUNG-HOON / REUTERS
ROW YOUR BOAT, CHINA The scenic route starts from Ping Hu Qiu Yue, also known as the &lsquoAutumn Moon Over the Calm Lake&rsquo and gently glides over spots like &lsquoTwo Peaks Piercing ...Image by GUO ZHIHUA / VCG VIA GETTY IMAGES
CYBER SINGER, FRANCE Japanese virtual singer Hatsune Miku&mdashan animated 16-year-old with saucer eyes and lengthy aquamarine pigtails&mdashperforms on stage during a concert at the Zenit...Image by CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP
VIRTUAL WIFE, JAPAN Akihiko Kondo (35), a Tokyo school administrator, poses for a photograph with a doll modelled after VR singer Hatsune Miku at his apartment, wearing their wedding ring...Image by KWIYEON HA / REUTERS
SUMMER VACATIONS, CHINA For children in Guizhou, summer vacation days out means a VR experience in a showroom of new technology at a tourism attraction in Xingyi in southwest China&rsquos ...Image by FEATURE CHINA / BARCROFT MEDIA VIA GETTY IMAGES
TRIP TO THE ZOO, JAPAN A RakuRo autonomous self-driving robot developed by ZMP Inc moves past a zebra at the Chiba Zoological Park, Japan. The online event allows children quarantined at ...Image by TOMOHIRO OHSUMI / GETTY IMAGES
CHEF&rsquoS HAT, MYANMAR Young chef Moe Myint May Thu films a cooking video at home in Yangon. From boiled catfish soup to spicy fried frog, this eight-year-old in pyjamas and a chef&rsqu...Image by YE AUNG THU / AFP
SOARING BALLET, KENYA Lydia Akoth (10), a member of Project Elimu, practises dancing on a sofa at home during a ballet lesson via a mobile phone at the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Proje...Image by GORDWIN ODHIAMBO / AFP
