Superception – Engineering the sense of self Speaker: Shunichi Kasahara Date: 23/9/2020Perception refers to recognizing meaning and organizing it into information via the inputs of sensory organs such as eyes, ears and somatosensory organs, as a basis for actions and constructing the self. How we can leverage our own perceptual ability and emerging technologies to…

We presented our project “The Tight Game: Implicit Force Intervention in Inter-personal Physical Interactions on Playing Tug of War” at Siggraph 2020 Emerging Technologies on August 27, 2020. The presentation was held virtually.https://s2020.siggraph.org/presentation/?id=gensub_478&sess=sess354 Related : THE TIGHT GAME was accepted to Siggraph 2020 Emerging Technologies

The Tight Game: Implicit Force Intervention in Inter-personal Physical Interactions on Playing Tug of War This work will be presented at SIGGRAPH 2020 Emerging Technologies https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3388534.3407301 ContributorsAzumi MaekawaUniversity of TokyoShunichi KasaharaUniversity of Tokyo, Sony Computer Science LabratoriesHiroto SaitoUniversity of TokyoDaisuke UriuUniversity of TokyoResearch Center for Advanced Science and TechnologyGowrishankar GaneshCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueMasahiko…

Our project “Preemptive Reaction: Accelerating Human Reaction using Electrical Muscle Stimulation Without Compromising Agency” has received Laval Virtual Award: VR/AR for Safety and Improvement of Work Environment on April 22, 2020.

I (Shunichi Kasahara) and Satoru Higa have been working on Fragment Shadow ( Interactive installation of Optical Shadow with Multiple Projectors). In the exhibition in Ginza Sony Park, we created the installation of Fragment Shadow with 16 projectors and 13 meters white wall. At the end of the exhibition of Fragment Shadow in Ginza Sony Park, we held the online — but interactive —…

Posted a tech article about the system architecture about synchronizing 16 projectors. This is based on system feasibility research for Fragment Shadow project. (In Japanese)https://qiita.com/shks/items/b7c3f3ade589b4186f33

Our abstract, which was prepared with Dr. Daisuke Tajima (Sony), Dr Jun Nishida (UChicago) and Prof. Pedro Lopes (UChicago) has been accepted to Vision Sciences Society 2020, which was supposed to be held in Florida, US in May 2020. Vision Sciences Society 2020 has been physically cancelled due to the declaration of a state of emergency in United States.

At the “QUEEN IN THE PARK” exhibition in Ginza Sony Park, Fragment Shadow was implemented in the interactive installation : ANOTHER ONE. BITES THE DUST. Ginza Sony Park内展示「QUEEN IN THE PARK」にて、Fragment Shadowを利用したコンテンツ ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST が展示されました。 Info #013 QUEEN IN THE PARK: Experience Music with QueenJanuary 22 (Wed) – March 15 (Sun), 2020Ginza…

A workshop using Parallel Eyes system held in YCAM (Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media]. This is a workshop that explores the possibilities of human expansion and turning humans into media. It will be held as part of “Yamaguchi’s Future Classes at YCAM,” which touch on the educational programs that have been developed at YCAM.…