Category Archives: Events

Professor Pan, Zhejiang University, delivered a presentation about “Virtual Presentation of Product based on VR” on 8 Dec 2006 in NUS.

The talk discussed the state of the art on virtual presentation based on VR, which includes image-based method, and 3D-based presentation. The key technology is exploited, and some examples are discussed, including Virtual Shopping Mall, Virtual Presentation of Textile product (Easy Show), Virtual presentation of mobile phones, and application of the techniques to culture, entertainment park, sight-seeing and historical places.

Professor Masahiko Inami delivered a remarkable presentation on “Multi-Modal Interfaces to enhance Human I/O”, grabbing full attention from the viewers on the 1st March 2007. Several videos were shown to allow the viewers to have a better understanding. There are three main points that Professor Inami brought up in his presentation; Objects for Enhancement, Sensation Enhancement and Communication Enhancement.

Professor Masahiko Inami is a Professor in the Department Engineering and Intelligent Systems of the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo. He was the Winner of Time Magazine for the “Coolest Inventions”.
Before that, on the 28th February, `Professor Inami and his students, Noriyoshi Shimizu went to the Singapore Science Centre to set up the Teddy Bear Robots.

http://www.twango.com/channel/mxrlab.inami

Prof Nakatsu gave a public lecture on “Digital & Interactive Media and Their Future”, which was held at the Engineering Auditorium in National University of Singapore on the 25 Oct 2007. The day before the talk, he came to visit MXR lab to understand in depth on the research that our lab is working.

Images:
http://www.twango.com/channel/mxrlab.ryoheinakatsu

Video:
http://nuscast.nus.edu.sg/PublicEvents/1/MODVideoOnly.asp?KEY=93FA77F0-3523-43A3-BA30-619C909164BE

On 7 September 2009, Mr S Iswaran Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Trade and Industry, and Ministry of Education, visited Mixed Reality Lab.The lab members showed impressive work of their projects

Link : http://share.ovi.com/album/mxrlab.SeniorMinistero

The Keio-NUS CUTE Center was officially opened by His Excellency President SR Nathan on 12th October, 2009. The event was attended by distinguished invitees from the National Research Foundation (NRF), the Media Development Authority (MDA), the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Keio University and several other government and private sector organizations.

HE President declared open the center by cutting the traditional ribbon as well as launching a “digital ribbon cutting” followed by the unveiling of the plaque. The Co-Director of the Center, Prof. Adrian Cheok, showed visitors the cutting edge research carried out in the Center. Introducing its research, Prof. Cheok stated that “our research tries to solve important problems in society”. The demos included research carried out in the Center using different media for communicating between Children and Families using senses hitherto unexplored in such communication. Some of the demos that caught the attention of the distinguished gathering included AmbiKraf-color changing fabrics, Petimo-Safe social networking tool for children and Huggy Pajama – a remote hugging device for families. The visitors were highly appreciative of the achievements of the Center in a very short period of its existence and congratulated the Center director and its staff in progress made in making Singapore a global hub in Interactive and Digital Media research. Several guests congratulated the Center Co-Directors Prof. Cheok and Prof. Masa Inakage of Keio University on the initiative taken to share the resources and expertise of two highly acclaimed academic institutes in coming together for collaborative research. Research staff and students of the center were highly thrilled to demonstrate their research and the global award-winning results obtained to such a distinguished gathering and are highly motivated by the interest shown by such a distinguished group of visitors.