DA・TE・APPS！2019 was held at the sendai mediatheque. Mr. Daigo Hayashi, Mr. Shotaro Ichikawa, Ms. Yuki Onishi, Mr. Aoi Suzuki, and Ms. Anri Niwano joined and won Best Application Award of IT department.

FY 2018 RIEC Annual Meeting on Cooperative Research Projects was held. Many researchers presented the results of our collaborative research. Prof. Kitamura also gave a talk.

Yoichi Ochiai, Associate Prof. and Advisor to President at Tsukuba University and CEO of Pixie Dust Technologies.inc, and Takayuki Hoshi, CRO of Pixie Dust Technologies.inc visited us.

Takashi Kitada, Director of FLAME Corporation, came and gave a lecture on 3DCG video and production technology.

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.
Related information(Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO))

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. Yoshifumi Kitamura appeared in a TV program “Sneaking into the World of Virtual Reality”.

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”.