I’m very happy with the implementation of Barco CAVE and extremely excited to encourage our team to use this facility to bring a visual experience closer to the real world.
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Nagakute, Aichi, Japan - 2023
Aichi Shukutoku University is a comprehensive university that actively practices learning in the local community and around the world. Based on the philosophy of "living together with differences", the university aim to cultivate excellent human resources who can develop their individuality while acknowledging each other's differences.
Within the Department of Human Informatics Kansei Engineering Major, the course focus on emphasizing sensibility, learning about design ideas, and manufacturing that are close to people, and developing human resources who can create human-friendly systems, software, information services and products, as well as space design that incorporate universal design.
Professor Hiroko Mori from the University’s Faculty of Human Informatics says that the Major’s goal of Sensibility Engineering Course is to develop and produce the STEAM ability in human resources required for realizing a sustainable society.
The fields that the major want them to master and play a part in the future are:
Professor Hiroko Mori continued, “Head-mounted display (HMD) devices have been introduced to my laboratory and allow users to experience a more space-saving and simple immersive sensation. But with HMD, there is the problem of being completely cut off from “surroundings”. However, in Sensibility Engineering, it is often the "surroundings" that contain important research elements, such as "scents" and "sounds" that are linked to sight, and sometimes "touching the skin" must be considered together. Simulations that are closer to real life are more practical in both education and research. To put it simply, it was essential for Sensibility Engineering to break away from the images within the virtual space in the 3D goggles and get closer to the "reality". In this aspect, HMD had its limitations.
There were several challenges that we want to overcome. For example, if you wear an HMD,
With these challenges in mind, Aichi Shukutoku University's Faculty of Human Informatics introduced Barco projection type VR system "CAVE" (3-screens) along with the establishment of a new course - Sensibility Engineering and started its operation in April 2023.
Professor Hiroko Mori talks about the merits of using "CAVE" in the research and education field of "Sensibility Engineering" and in what situations the CAVE is used for.
Compared to 3D goggles, the CAVE VR system provides a far more realistic sense of immersion. It is utilized in both the development and discharge of excellent human resources. She hopes that the CAVE VR system will break away from "just an experiment" in terms of universal design and bring a visual experience closer to the real world. This will lead to specific environmental improvement proposals for a society in which diverse people including people with disabilities can participate, not just in terms of age, gender, and race.
“We believe that it will lead to a future image that will be applied to the production-method and “what content should be” when turning picture books into VR content,” she said.
Professor Hiroko Mori also shared about how they are utilizing CAVE and future research themes:
I’m very happy with the implementation of Barco CAVE and extremely excited to encourage our team to use this facility to bring a visual experience closer to the real world.
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