  The first photon beam was successfully produced by laser Compton
backscattering at the LEPS2 beamline, which was newly constructed at SPring-8
for the purpose to increase the beam intensity one order of magnitude more than
that of the LEPS experiments and to achieve the large acceptance coverage with
high resolution detectors. The BGOegg electromagnetic calorimeter with
associated detectors are being set up at the LEPS2 experimental building for
the physics programs, including the searches for $\eta$'-bound nuclei and
highly excited baryon resonances. In parallel to the BGOegg experiments, the
LEPS2 charged particle spectrometer will be prepared inside the 1 Tesla
solenoidal magnet, transported from the BNL-E949 experiment.
