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Emerging Technologies Experience Presentations

Thursday, 28 July, 9:00 am - 10:30 am, Anaheim Convention Center, Room 304 AB

BigRobot Mk.1A

This tall robot with two wheeled legs positions a human pilot five meters above the ground. The pilot controls the robot’s movement with foot motions as it follows the path of a five-meter-tall tall humanoid.

Hiroo Iwata
University of Tsukuba

Yu-ta Kimura
University of Tsukuba

Hikaru Takatori
University of Tsukuba

Yu-uki Enzaki
University of Tsukuba

FOVE

FOVE is a virtual reality head-mounted display that integrates eye-tracking technology with virtual reality. Two small infrared cameras achieve stereo eye-tracking with less than one-degree accuracy and 120 frames per second per eye.

Lochlainn Wilson
Fove, Inc.

Jim Preston
Fove, Inc.

VR Technologies for Rich Sports Experience

NTT is developing progressive VR technologies to provide sports experiences that enhance spectator enjoyment and player performance.

Daisuke Ochi
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Akio Kameda
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Kosuke Takahashi
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Motohiro Makiguchi
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Kouta Takeuchi
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Laplacian Vision: Augmenting Motion Prediction via Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Displays and Projectors

This vision-augmentation system aims to assist the human ability to predict the short-term future by visualizing trajectory information of real-world objects via an optical see-through head-mounted display and a projector.

Yuta Itoh
Keio University

Yuichi Hiroi
Keio University

Jiu Otsuka
Keio University

Maki Sugimoto
Keio University

Jason Orlosky
Osaka University

Kiyoshi Kiyokawa
Osaka University

Gudrun Klinker
Technische Universität München