OIST hosts French-Japanese Seminar on Metaverse and Virtual Reality
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) welcomed participants of the French-Japanese Seminar on “Metaverse and Virtual Reality – The Science and Technology of Interacting with Digital Worlds”. The Seminar was the brainchild of Dr. Anatole Lécuyer, Research Director at Inria, France’s National Institute for Research in Digital Science, who came to OIST in March 2023 as a guest of TSVP, OIST’s Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program.
Its goal was to gather experts from Japan and France working on a wide range of areas in science and technologies needed to build the Metaverse, to exchange ideas and build collaborations. “Virtual reality has always been a multi-disciplinary subject,” said Dr. Lécuyer. “It’s too big a challenge to face alone”. The seminar was hosted by TSVP, with funding provided by the French Embassy in Japan, and was co-organized by Dr. Shunichi Kasahara of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, who recently joined OIST as a Visiting Researcher. “We can imagine having new technologies, abilities or new bodies, but how do we subjectively feel it as self?” Dr. Kasahara asked. Participants in the seminar were welcomed by OIST’s Dean of Research.
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