We enjoyed a year-end-party and welcomed new members.

Prof. Yuichi Ito of Osaka University visited us and gave us a talk.

Our joint team with Ishiguro lab won at the final of baseball tournament!

The Third ACM SIGCHI Asian Symposium (RIEC International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction) was held.

Ms. Yuki Onishi and Mr. Yoshiki Kudo presented their work at SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 (ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia).

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura engaged in bidding activities of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 as the MICE ambassador.
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Associate Prof. Kazuhi Takashima served as the Virtual & Augmented Reality (VR / AR) committee.

Mr. Ryo Sugawara and Mr. Shotaro Ichikawa presented their work at VRST 2018 (ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology).

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura served as the VRST steering committee chair.

Mr. Yoshiki Kudo and Mr. Xin Huang presented their work at ISS 2018 (ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces).

Associate Prof. Kazuki Takashima served as the demo chairman.

Prof. Tomoyuki Sugiyama, President at Digital Hollywood University visited us and gave us a talk.

IVRC 2018 (International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest)final was held at Makuhari Messe. Mr. Shotaro Ichikawa, Ms. Yuki Onishi, and Mr. Daigo Hayashi, Mr. Akiyuki Ebi, Mr. Isamu Endo, Mr. Aoi Suzuki, and Ms. Anri Niwano joined and won support company prize, Unity and Dospara prize.

Mr. Kin Fung Chu presented his work at ICAT-EGVE 2018 (International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments).

The activity for the final of International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest（IVRC）by our student team is fetured in the.

Mr. Tanaka, Mr. Ito and Ms. Yagi from NTT Docomo visited us.

Dr. Thippaya Chintakovid and Dr. Siranee Nuchitprasitchai of King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand visited us and gave us a talk.

We enjoyed Imoni party.

We held open lab on the same day of “Open RIEC 2018”.

Mr. Ryo Sugawara and Mr. Syotaro Ichikawa made an oral presentation and demonstrate their work and Mr. Isamu Endo made an oral presentation at The 23rd Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

Associate Prof. Kazuki Takashima served as the program chairman of The 23rd Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan. M1 and B4 students participated in a Preliminary contest of International collegiate Virtual Reality Contest（IVRC） and made it to the finals.

We demonstrated our work at the Open Campus of the Department of Electrical, Information and Physics Engineering, School of Engineering, Tohoku University.

The members of Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) visited us.

22 students from University of Washington, University of Califolnia, University of Novosibirsk visited us as a part of the Science Summer Program.

B4 students read and presented paper respectively as a part of the curriculum-based training.