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 (Monday) 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 …

Mr. Nakano (D1) has been certified as an IPA Mito Super Creator in 2019. Congratulations! Project Title: Design of food experience in VR space IPA Mito HP: https://www.ipa.go.jp/jinzai/mitou/2019/20200528.html Creator Introduction: https://www.ipa.go.jp/files/000082593.pdf

8 M1 students have joined CARE Lab this spring! Uno Takuma Kato Taiki Kono Mayuka Baba Takeru Fukuda Akihisa Fukumoto Naoya Yoshimitsu Masahiro Yoshimura Kazuma

Mr. Higashi (M1) has taken an oversea internship at one of the most renowned research institute on AR, HIT Lab NZ of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand from February 5th to March 13th, 2020. He studied on synchronizing Read more …

Mr. Nakano and Mr. Koshi gave a presentation at Interaction 2020 on March 9th, 10th, 11th, 2020. Detail: http://www.interaction-ipsj.org/proceedings/2020/data/bib/INT20012.html Paper: http://www.interaction-ipsj.org/proceedings/2020/data/pdf/INT20012.pdf Introduction movie: http://www.interaction-ipsj.org/proceedings/2020/data/movie/INT20012.mp4 HP: https://www.interaction-ipsj.org/2020/

We held a farewell party for graduating students.

We had Open Campus on February 22, 2020, and introduced our laboratory and demonstrated our research to so many visitors. Thank you for very much for coming!

On December 23rd, 2019, we held and enjoyed an year-end party at Osakana Stand Yuji Fuse. Only laboratory has only three years’ of history, but many new students have joined us and the party was so lively this year.

Mr. Kawabe, Mr. Hasegawa, and Mr. Higashi (all M1) gave a presentation at Ubiquitous Wearable Workshop (UWW) 2019 on December 20th and 21st, 2019.

IPSJ Special Interest Group on Entertainment Computing was held on December 13, 2019 at NAIST. From our laboratory, Mr. Kawabe, Mr. Kitayama. and Mr. Shikanai gave an oral presentation. In addition, Mr. Ito, Mr. Hasegawa, Mr. Higashi, and Mr. Yokomi Read more …

We took a lab trip to Gifu from October 26th to 28th, 2019. We went to the world-heritage Shirakawa-go village and saw the sea of clouds, etc.

Mr. Yan and Mr. Nakano gave an oral presentation at the top conference on AR/MR research, the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2019 in Beijing, China. Mr. Yan’s presentation at the doctoral consortium was entitled “Design Read more …

Mr. Saito (M2) gave a presentation at a workshop of MVE (Media Experience / Virtual Environement) of IEICE (the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers).

Mr. Hagimori (M2) gave a presentation on “Combining Tendon Vibration and Visual Stimulation Enhances Kinesthetic Illusions” at Cyberworlds 2019 in Kyoto.

Following five students have joined our laboratory from October, 2019. Welcome! Yang Zhengchang (M1) Hu Xiaodan (M1) Chotchaicharin Setthawut (M1) Raphaël Verret (Intern) Bastien Germain (Intern)

Mr. Yokomi (M1) gave an oral and poster presentations at the VRSJ Annual Conference which was held from September 11th to 13th, 2019.