The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Information Science and Technology * and DMM.com Lab Co., Ltd. opened a social collaboration course "Applied research on spatiotemporal analysis (multimodal) technology" on August 2016, 8, and started their activities.
This social collaboration course is a course placed in graduate schools that conduct education and research in undergraduate and graduate schools by utilizing the expenses received from private institutions that are going to carry out joint research with the University of Tokyo on common issues with high public interest. That.
This time, the social collaboration course "Applied research of spatiotemporal analysis (multimodal) technology" established by the Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering of the University of Tokyo and DMM.com Lab Co., Ltd. is a research scale of about 3 million yen in 1 years. Using the world's most advanced spatiotemporal analysis (multimodal) technology, we aim to develop applications for VR (Virtual Reality) for displays and attractions.
DMM.com Lab has a group company that combines new technology and entertainment, such as operating the world's first 3DCG live holographic theater "DMM VR Theater" in Yokohama, to create a unique user experience. In cooperation with group companies, the technology acquired in the social collaboration course will be expanded to commercial facilities such as theme parks and shopping malls to provide an innovative user experience.
Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and Professor Hiroshi Saruwatari of the Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering of the University of Tokyo are challenged by the fact that this social collaboration course is a technology transfer in an entertainment field that is different from the fields that the Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering of the University of Tokyo has been conducting so far. And he says it's interesting.
* The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering is one of the graduate schools of the University of Tokyo established in April 2001.We conduct a wide range of graduate school education and cutting-edge research on information science and engineering, and analyze the world's most advanced spatio-temporal signals on the technological foundations of high-speed image processing, audio-acoustic signal processing, tactile information processing, VR, network computing, etc. We are developing utilization technology.
