Toshikazu Ohshima
Most Recent Affiliation:
- Ritsumeikan University, College of Image Arts & Sciences
Location:
- Japan
Bio:
Toshikazu Ohshima has been a professor at Ritsumeikan University since 2006. In 1991, he received a Doctorate from the Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tsukuba. In 1991, he joined Canon Inc. and worked on research and development of virtual reality. From 1997, he worked as a senior researcher in a national mixed reality (MR) technology project and from 2001 began serving as a section chief at the MR R&D division in Canon Inc. His research interests include MR technologies and its deployment in education, medicine, and the arts. Since 2006, he and his team have continually created technological and educational artworks based on scientific and biological simulations utilizing mixed reality experience. Since 2012, these works of art and edutainment have been annually exhibited at Laval Virtual ReVolution in France. In 2017, “MitsuDomoe,” a virtual ecosystem in a petri dish, was awarded the Laval Virtual Award of Training and Education.
Art Works:
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Tactile Microcosm of ALife
Categories: [Interactive & Monitor-Based]
[SIGGRAPH Asia 2019]
Writings and Presentations:
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Title:
Tactile Microcosm of ALife
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019: Deep Dreaming
Abstract Summary:Tactile Microcosm of ALife offers interaction with artificial organisms, whereby the user can enjoy playing with fish-like organisms through aerial imaging and haptic feedback. The holographic organisms float in water in a petri dish, and the user can feel a forcefield of the vital of the organisms via force feedback.
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