Our research results have been published in “Metaverse Research Institute: Summary of Metaverse Research Cases”.

Research on methodology to create the illusion of “Room Scale VR” experience

Dr. Yoshiko Yabe of National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology visited us and gave us a talk.

Imoni-kai & Welcome Party.

We enjoyed Imoni party as a welcome party for new members in October. The party was held indoors due to the weather.

Our research results have been published in “Metaverse Research Institute: Summary of Metaverse Research Cases”.

“Developed BirdViewAR, a user interface for safe drone operation”

Dr. Benjamin Tag (Monash U. Australia) visited us and gave us a talk.

Ryota Gomi made an oral presentation at ISS (ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference) 2023.

• Ryota Gomi, Kazuki Takashima, Yuki Onishi, Kazuyuki Fujita, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. 2023. UbiSurface: A Robotic Touch Surface for Supporting Mid-air Planar Interactions in Room-Scale VR.

Our research results were featured in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun.

Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, September 21, 2023, page 25, Science, Technology & Universities, “Tohoku University, New Method Using Deep Learning”
Predicting Water Flow from Buoy Movements and Sharing the Results with Remote Communities for Disaster Prevention.

Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun online

Our paper has been published in the online bulletin of ACM Transactions on Graphics, the scientific journal of the Association for Computing Machinery. Oral presentation at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 (December 12-15, Sydney, Australia), a top conference on computer graphics and interactive technologies.

• Kinfung Chu, Jiawei Huang, Hidemasa Takana, and Yoshifumi Kitamura. Real-Time Reconstruction of Fluid Flow under Unknown Disturbance, ACM Transactions on Graphics

Press Release: Let It Flow: Recreating Water Flow for Virtual Reality

The work “Superior Falconer” created by a team of students from our laboratory was exhibited at the IVRC SEED STAGE held as an open session during the 28th Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ) Convention at the Tokyo Tama Mirai Messe in Hachioji City, Tokyo.

• 王宇卉，池田徹志，阿部真成斗，板倉晃平，大岡凌，滕宇軒：ハラショーな鷹匠，第28回日本バーチャルリアリティ学会大会論文集，IVRC-09，2023．
• [IVRC2023 SEED STAGE] ハラショーな鷹匠 – YouTube

Our review paper by Prof. Kazuyuki Fujita, Prof. Kazuki Takashima, and Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura was published in Springer Nature’s journal “Quality and User Experience”.

• Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuki Takashima, Yuichi Itoh, Yoshifumi Kitamura. Human-Workspace Interaction: prior research efforts and future challenges for supporting knowledge workers, Quality and User Experience, Vol. 8, Article no. 7, Aug. 2023.

Mr. Dani Hove (North Carolina State University), who is staying at our lab, gave a lecture.

Tohoku University Open Campus was held on July 26 and 27.

The Department of Electrical, Information and Physics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, had a total of 5860 visitors over the two days of the event. Our laboratory had many exhibits at the Aobayama Campus, and many people visited our booth.

Dr. Ray LC, Assistant Professor of Creative Media at Hong Kong City University
visited us and gave us a talk.

Dr. Sabah Boustila (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), who is staying at our lab, gave a talk.

HealthTech College was held at our laboratory as a hybrid event, and Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura gave a talk and many people visited our laboratory.

We held a welcome party for new students and Prof. Benjamin Watson, Prof. Miguel Nacenta, and Dr Sabah Boustila.

24 students from the University of Washington, Pennsylvania State University, University of California, San Diego, University of California, Riverside, York University, University of East Anglia, and University of Waterloo visited us. Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura gave a lecture, and after the lab tour, students enjoyed discussions with each other.

CHI Study Session was held and 4 students from our lab participated in it.

Prof. Benjamin Watson (North Carolina State University) and Prof. Miguel Nacenta (University of Victoria) , who are staying with us as a Visiting Professor, gave us talks.