The Tokyo Dome Vision: AR Sports as Civilizational Foresight — A Personal Record of Structural Recognition, circa 2016

Around 2016, the author posted a vision on Facebook: a real Pokémon battle held inside Tokyo Dome, with spectators wearing scouter-like AR devices to watch virtual combatants fight in physical space. This paper records that vision as permanent DOI entry, establishing the author as an early observer of the dual-layer civilization — the fusion of physical and digital space — years before Apple Vision Pro, Meta's metaverse rebrand, and the broader AR industry confirmed the structural prediction. Using V=N/D, the paper argues the Tokyo Dome vision was structural recognition: the body reading the inevitable trajectory of D-reduction in human experience before the market named it.