IVRC award ceremony was held at the 27th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.

At the ceremony, ‘ “Te”mpura ‘, created by a team of students from our lab, was selected to participate in the Leap Stage.

• 大岡凌，板倉晃平，米澤晴，田中雄大，木村聡杞，松井遼太郎：手んぷら，第 27 回日本バーチャルリアリティ学会大会論文集，1A3-02，2022．

Project Assistant Professor Miao Cheng presented a poster at ECVP (European Conference on Visual Perception) 2022 held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

A paper was appeared in IEEE Sensors Journal.

• Yuhei Osaka, Jiawei Huang, Yoshifumi Kitamura: Learning to Track Monofrequency Multi-axis 3D Passive Magnetic Markers, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3199154.

Prof. Mario Doulis of Merz-Akademie Stuttgart, Germany visited our laboratory, and gave us a talk in a hybrid format.

Also, we demonstrated our research to Prof. Mario.

Promotional movie of our laboratory (2022 version) is now available.

• Promotional movie 2022

A “Training A” session was held in a hybrid format, in which fourth-year undergraduate students gave presentations on papers of their own choice. From our laboratory, Mr. Ryo Ooka, Mr. Ryotaro Matsui, Mr. Tomohiro Mozumi, and Mr. Satoki Kimura presented their papers.

Mr. Takuma Hagiwara, an alumnus of our laboratory, visited our laboratory with a person from his affiliated company.

The students gave a demonstration of their research to Mr. Hagiwara and his colleagues.

A master thesis review meeting was held in a hybrid format, and Mr. Taichi Tsuchida, a second-year student of the master’s course, gave a presentation from our laboratory.

We visited Prof. Nobuyuki Sakai’s laboratory (Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University).

We held Welcome Party for the new members.

Three students from National Chung Cheng University visited our laboratory.

Dr. Masako Hayashi (Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, Tohoku University) visied our laboratory.

We demonstrated our reserch to Dr. Hayashi.

Commencement ceremony was held in hybrid style.

We had a farewell party online.

Ms. Yuki Onishi appeared on the TV program “小島よしおのまちぶらサイエンス” on TOHOKU BROADCASTING CO LTD．

• tbc東北放送 Web Magazine Skip: 東京エレクトロン宮城 presents 小島よしおのまちぶらサイエンス.

Oral examination of bachelor thesis was held in hybrid style(seminar room + online), and Mr. Ryota Gomi, Mr. Yudai Tanaka and Ms. Yuki Tachibana made an oral presentation.

IEEE VR 2022 was held online.
Mr. Kumpei Ogawa and Mr. Yukai Hoshikawa made oral presentations.
Mr. Yukai Hoshikawa also received Honorable Mention Best Conference Paper Award.

• Kumpei Ogawa, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuki Takashima, Yoshifumi Kitamura. PseudoJumpOn: Jumping onto Steps in Virtual Reality.
• Yukai Hoshikawa, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuki Takashima, Morten Fjeld, Yoshifumi Kitamura. RedirectedDoors: Redirection While Opening Doors in Virtual Reality.

We held an online research exchange meeting with Dr. Benjamin Tag (University of Melbourne, Australia) and his students.

RIEC International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction was held online.

Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura gave the Opening Keynote at the 3rd Yokohama Global MICE Forum, which was a hybrid forum held at Pacifico Yokohama.

• Global Community with International Conferences – Experience of Organizing ACM CHI 2021 Online