stories

Overcoming language and cultural gaps for businesses across Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam

How companies in Japan and Southeast Asia are improving their operations and cross-border collaboration using tonari

How portals are enabling a startup to rapidly expand their reach from Hawaii to the world

Hardware startup Normal Lab is using tonari across Hawaii, Silicon Valley, and Japan to accelerate hiring, growth, and global supply chain management

Improving project collaboration and communication efficiency with always-on portals

How one of Japan’s largest insurance companies is unifying communications across sites to quickly drive initiatives forward

Connecting rural and urban university campuses to bring students closer together

Freshman in the Tokyo University of Science’s Hokkaido dormitory can virtually socialize with upperclassmen on its main campus

Revitalizing regional Japan through better connectivity

WELAGO connects Tokyo with Izu Oshima island to promote new ways of living and working

How PlatinumGames uses tonari to collaborate with ease and speed up game development

An example of how the creative industry can better synchronize teams, in this case, across Tokyo and Osaka

Advancing research while making the most of tonari’s low-latency video communication

How national institute NICT is measuring the psychological benefits of low latency through experiments with Local 5G

Advancing collaboration between startups, researchers, and corporates across Singapore and Japan

Always-on portals promote Leave a Nest’s international community and business partners while reducing the need for overseas travel

How tonari is boosting mentorship and support for remote engineers in a Japanese startup

Constant connection between Tokyo and Osaka has bolstered engineering recruitment by creating better connected workplaces

Japan Railways keeps projects on track with tonari

Always-on connectivity makes sharing energy and real-time updates much easier when operations are split

Using always-on portals to build relationships across corporate departments and locations

How one of Japan’s largest technology consultancies increases employee engagement with tonari

Experimenting with teleportation technology to expand equality across generations, distances, and disabilities

Highlights from our research with non-profits to explore uses for tonari in communities and cross generational and welfare gaps

Sompo Japan shares resources across locations with tonari

Connecting big offices to provide smaller teams with greater resources, access to management and back-office support

Creating a unified team and culture across offices in Tokyo and Osaka

Office designers at Frontier Consulting use tonari to improve worker motivation and allow new relationships to flourish

tonari creates hyper-connected workplaces for fast-growing startups

Through always-on communication, teams distributed around the world can work together as if they’re in the same room

About tonari

tonari portals provide natural, effortless, life-sized communication that feels like being together in-person. built on next-gen hardware and software with 10x more fidelity than video calls, sub-100ms latency, true eye contact, and room-scale immersion.

Contact us to inquire about demos, pricing, and availability for your locations.