Hideaki Uchiyama has joined our laboratory as Associate Professor as of April 1st, 2021.

We welcomed six interns from February to March. Yuito Arisumi of Osaka Pref. Univ. College of Tech developed an AR app that recognizes speech and shows the text near the face using ARCore and Google Cloud Speech. Hiroki Yamaoka of Read more …

Mr. Hasegawa (M2) gave an oral presentation at INTERACTION 2021 which is the largest domestic conference on human computer interaction held from March 10, 2021 to March 12, 2021. Eiichi Hasegawa, Naoya Isoyama, Nobuchika Sakata, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, “Effects of Read more …

VIPO (Visual Industry Promotion Organization) has released the “Guidelines for Utilizing AR and Other Content Production Technologies” created with the support of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. This is a guideline for utilizing AR and other content production Read more …

The Spring Seminar was held from February 17 (Wednesday) to 21 (Friday). At the Spring Seminar, 8 participants worked on application development like the followings. Use an M5Stack Gray to acquire motion data of the 9-axis sensor, and then classify Read more …

Mr. Shikanai, Mr. Yokomi, and Mr. Higashi (M2) gave following presentations at an MVE workshop held online on January 21st and 22nd. Mr. Shikanai’s presentation was recognized as the best paper among those submitted to the MVE workshop and won Read more …

We exhibited a research demonstration named “Phantact: the Proteus Effect in the Real World” at CES 2021, an annual technology and innovation event which was held from January 11 to January 14, 2021. Normally, CES is held in Las Vegas, Read more …

Our students’ work “Kusuguttemi-na” was featured by TBS “Shinsaincho Matsumoto Hitoshi”. This system allows you to experience the feeling of being tickled by others by tickling yourself by wearing a VR goggle and a custom rubber gloves. By inflating the Read more …

Prof. Kiyokawa’s interview on the current and future of VR/AR technologies appeared in the Seikyo Shimbun on the New Year’s Day in 2021. “I had no connection at all with the newspaper, but it was a very good opportunity to Read more …

Our laboratory was featured on Yomiuri TV “Honwaka TV” from 19:00 on December 18th. Kizashi Nakano (D1) introduced the taste modulation system, and Masahiro Yoshimitsu (M1) introduced the self-tickling system. (Contents) https://www.ytv.co.jp/honwaka/contents/20201218.html “Tools of the Future by Using VR/AR” Cybernetics Read more …

Mr. Riku Otono from the University of Tokyo had a lab experience program from Dec. 7th to Dec. 18th. He developed a multi-modal AR system combining an olfactory display and an HMD. When you eat something you don’t like, it Read more …

Mr. Hagimori (D1) gave an oral presentation at SigHaptics, the Virtual Reality Society of Japan which was held online from Nov. 30th to Dec. 1st. His presentation was about how tendon vibration stimulus affects the movement of raising and lowering Read more …

Mr. Zhang Yan (D2) gave an oral presentation at a top conference on augmented reality, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2020. Conventional optical see-through HMDs have a narrow field of view and it is difficult to Read more …

We are calling for applicants for Associate Professor position at Cybernetics and Reality Engineering (CARE) Laboratory, Division of Information Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology. Please read the public advertisement below and submit Read more …

Our student team’s work “Kusuguttemi-na”, which took part in IVRC2020‘s SEED STAGE, has been featured by Japanese online media. This system allows you to experience the feeling of being tickled by others by tickling yourself by wearing a VR goggle Read more …

We introduced four Oculus Quest2 headsets etc. for research. Oculus Quest2 “etc.”

We are calling for applicants for Assistant Professor position at Cybernetics and Reality Engineering (CARE) Laboratory, Division of Information Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology. Please read the public advertisement below and submit Read more …

Mr. Cong, Mr. Kobayashi, Mr. Kawabe, and Mr. Nishizawa (M2) gave following presentations at an MVE workshop held in Hakodate and online on October 12th and 13th. Mr. Cong’s presentation was recognized as the best paper among those submitted to Read more …

4 students (1 D1 and 3 M1) have joined CARE Lab this fall! Welcome! All but Zhang will study remotely from their countries due to covid-19. Johannes Schirm (D1) Pornsomchai Sorapon (M1) Kannappan Vinayak Teoh (M1) Zhang Yuxian (M1)

Mr. Zhang Yan (D2) will give an oral presentation on his work below at a top conference on augmented reality, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2020. Conventional optical see-through HMDs have a narrow field of view Read more …

In September, 2020, we welcomed three interns; Mr. Ishizuka from National Institute of Technology, Yonago College, Mr. Shimokubo from National Institute of Technology, Kagoshima College, and Mr. Hatakeyama from Waseda University. Mr. Ishizuka did the internship entirely online for two Read more …

4 M1 students, Yoshimitsu, Yoshimura, Fukuda, and Uno participated in the IVRC 2020 SEED STAGE. For the IVRC, they created a system named Kusugutte-mina that enables a user to tickle himself/herself with ones’ own hands. (Participant’s voice) “Although we were Read more …

The old blinds in the lab were replaced with colorful curtains.  

The Summer Seminar was held from August 19 (Wednesday) to 21 (Friday). At the Summer Seminar, participants worked on application development like the followings. Use an M5Stack Gray to acquire motion data of the 9-axis sensor, and then classify the Read more …

We held a Joint Workshop with Kuroda Lab of Tsukuba University on August 21, 2020. Kuroda Lab is a new laboratory established last year in Tsukuba University, aiming at social implementation of technology in the medical field and everyday life Read more …

The following book, which teaches you a wide range of theoretical and practical aspects of augmented reality, has been published by McGraw-Hill in August 2020. It has 520 pages and is extremely informative, especially for those who actually work with Read more …

We introduced five HoloLens2 for research.

We introduced five Varjo XR-1 headsets for research.

Mr. Hasegawa gave a presentation at DICOMO 2020 (Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium) and received Young Researcher Award. Presented paer Eiichi Hasegawa, Naoya Isoyama, Nobuchika Sakata, and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, “Effects of video speed on smart glasses to viewer’s working Read more …

The 2020 NAIST Open Campus was held as a Virtual Open Campus using VR technology. CARE Lab cooperated fully with IMDLab and other laboratories to realize the event, especially for the maintenance of 360-degree video content, the holding of VR Read more …