[Recruiting joint researchers: Children and students VR free research competition] The 4th Osaka competition will be held at the Osaka Science and Technology Museum on Sunday, September 1st.
*General Incorporated Association Children and Students VR Free Research Conference Organizing Committee*
Press release: August 18, 2024
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[Recruiting joint researchers: Children and students VR free research competition] The 4th Osaka competition will be held at the Osaka Science and Technology Museum on Sunday, September 1st.
*About 40 research themes proposed by children and students will be reviewed and awarded, and joint research will be promoted from among the research themes. *
Appointed on August 9, 2024: Masashi Okamoto, Volunteer Junior Researcher, Organizing Committee for Children and Students VR Free Competition (General Incorporated Association)
For joint research, please bring in the strengths of individuals, companies, organizations, and local governments.
* Would you like to create innovative VR research together? *
The Organizing Committee for the Children’s and Student VR Free Competition (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Shigeru Yokomatsu) has announced that the “Children’s Student VR free research conference
We are looking for joint researchers for the 4th Osaka Conference.
This competition is a place for children and students to explore the possibilities of VR technology and create the future with free ideas. Approximately 40 research themes created from children’s flexible perspectives will be presented and judged, including time travel using VR, social problem solving simulations, and ideas to enrich future lives.
Based on these research themes, we will promote joint research with the support of individuals, companies, organizations, and local governments using their strengths.
* Examples of joint research themes *
* ・* Exciting category
Developing VR content that gives dreams and excitement, such as immersive historical experiences using VR, encounters with endangered species, and space travel.
* ・* Living Department
Development of VR applications that solve social issues, such as copyright education using VR, crime prevention measures, disaster prevention simulations, health management, and environmental problem solving.
*What is expected of you as a joint researcher*
We support children’s research by leveraging the skills, knowledge, and experience of individuals, companies, organizations, and local governments.
We hope that children will participate in our research in a variety of ways, including advice on research themes, guidance on VR technology, and joint development.We hope that children will foster their free ideas and passion, and co-create future innovations. Masu.
*Free research themes for children (excerpts)*
Let’s go back to your stomach with VR tour
A function that allows you to see the copyright at a glance in VR Don’t become a future perpetrator! simulation
Protect traditional crafts! tour
Get married in VR and prevent the declining birthrate!
Look at the battlefield and stop the war VR
VR that makes the inconvenient free
Make life easier with AR subtitles, etc.
* Would you like to take on the challenge of VR research that will open up the future together? *
*4th Osaka Convention Program*
Date and time: Sunday, September 1, 2024, 13:00-16:00
Number of participants: ・Meeting venue: 100 people (advance
registration required)
・40 people online ・10 people with Metaverse (Horizon Workrooms) MetaQues ・YouTube VR live viewing
Target audience: From elementary school students to university students, we also welcome parents and children, school personnel, and educators.
Participation fee: Free
Venue: Osaka Science and Technology Center 8F Medium Hall 1-8-4 Utsubohonmachi, Nishi-ku, Osaka 550-0004
How to apply: From the website https://freestudy.jp/ostec.html Tournament contents:
13:00 Opening greetings
13:05 Museum tour: Osaka Science and Technology Museum learning tour (looking for hints for VR independent research)
13:35 Explanation and report: Explanation of VR free research conference and reports on past conferences
13:50 Award: Professor Takemura’s excellent research theme award (Special Award from the Senior Vice-Chairman of the Conference) (Haruo Takemura: Director and Senior Vice-Chairman of Children’s and Student VR Free Research Organization Committee, Specially Appointed Professor at Osaka University,
Former President of the Japan Virtual Reality Society)
14:00 Presentation by award winners: Presentation and explanation of research theme
14:30 How to achieve it: Can it be achieved with Apple Vision Pro?The organizer gives hints about the award winner’s research theme 14:50 VR/AR experience: Experience VR goggles (MetaQuest),
AppleVisionPro, and XREAL for venue participants
(15:40~ Award winners will be joint research committee regarding VR independent research theme)
Ends at 16:00
*Please note that the above contents may be partially changed without notice.
*Children/Student VR Free Research Conference Organizing Committee (within this corporation)*
We will hold a competition across the country to produce future “scientists who will be successful in the world”
*Conference Chairman Shigeru Yokomatsu*
General Incorporated Association Children and Students VR Free Research Conference Organizing Committee/General Incorporated Association VR Innovation Organization/1
VR Research Ethics Society Promotion Foundation / Academic Promotion Specialist Association: Representative Director
*Conference Committee Chair: Michitaka Hirose*
Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo / University of Tokyo Advanced Science and Technology Research Center Service VR Project Leader / Chairman of the Nikkei Metaverse Consortium Future Committee * Tournament Senior Vice-Chairman Haruo Takemura*
Professor, Information Media Education and Research Department, Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Chairman, Virtual Reality Society of Japan
*Conference Vice-Chairman Koichi Setoyama*
Director of the VR Research Ethics Society Promotion
Foundation/President of the VR Research Ethics Society: Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Bioethics Professor
*Convention Vice-Chairman Minoru Eto*
VR Research Ethics Society Director Promotion Foundation / VR Research Ethics Society Vice President: Professor, Osaka University Leading Interdisciplinary Research Organization
* Tournament Committee Osamu Ukimura*
Councilor of the VR Research Ethics Society Promotion
Foundation/Executive Director of the VR Research Ethics Society: Chief Professor, Department of Urological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
* Tournament Committee Mutsuo Sano*
Executive Director, VR Research Ethics Society: Specially Appointed Professor, Department of Information and Media, Faculty of Information Science, Osaka Institute of Technology
*Convention Committee Kohei Ogawa*
Executive Director, VR Research Ethics Society: Associate Professor, Information Systems, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Nagoya Graduate School of Engineering
* Tournament Committee Yukari Nagai*
VR Research Ethics Society Director: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Director/Vice President
* Tournament committee member Kotone Matsuyama*
VR Research Ethics Society Director: Nippon Medical University, School of Medicine, Medical Management, Specially Appointed Professor (Deputy Director, Research Management Center)
* Tournament committee member: Kengo Yoshii*
Councilor of the VR Research Ethics Society Promotion Foundation / Director of the VR Research Ethics Society: Lecturer, Department of Biomathematics, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
* Tournament Committee Yuka Kato*
VR Research Ethics Society Director: Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Department of Psychopathology, Assistant Professor * Tournament committee member Panote Siriaraya*
Director of VR Research Ethics Society: Assistant Professor, Department of Information Engineering and Human Sciences, Kyoto Institute of Technology
* Tournament Committee Kikuo Tanaka*
Councilor of the VR Research Ethics Society Promotion
Foundation/Director of the VR Research Ethics Society: Specially Appointed Instructor at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s Aviation Safety Academy, Part-time Lecturer at Doshisha University
* Tournament committee member: Hiroshi Umajima*
VR Innovation Organization, General Incorporated Association Volunteer Photography Judging Committee: Tokyo Zoo Association, General Affairs Department, Educational Promotion Center, Educational Planning Section, Animal Commentator
* Tournament committee member Hiroki Yamanishi*
Director of the Association of Academic Promotion Specialists (General Incorporated Association) / Secretariat of the Society of VR Research Ethics (General Incorporated Foundation): Administrative Scrivener Yamanishi Administrative Scrivener Office
* Tournament committee member Hiroatsu Deguchi*
Member of the VR Innovation Organization (General Incorporated Association)/Volunteer Photographer Judging Committee: Google Global Program Manager
*Assistant Chair of the Tournament Katsunari Arakawa*
General Incorporated Foundation VR Research Ethics Society Promotion Foundation VR Ethics Research Society Research Consortium Principal Research Member / Organizational Foundation Association Committee Joint Management Planning Executive Officer
*Convention Secretary General Haruki Nishiyama*
Lawyer/Director of the Office of Representative Director of the Japan Foundation Association Committee
*Brief history at the time of establishment of the corporation
* [Corporate overview] *
Name: General Incorporated Association Children and Students VR Free Research Conference Organizing Committee
Address: THE BASE Kojimachi, 9-3 Nibancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Representative: Representative Director Shigeru Yokomatsu
Officer: Director Michitaka Hirose
Director Haruo Takemura
Established: February 7, 2024
URL: https://freestudy.jp/
Corporate number 2010005037877
Purpose: To foster scientists who will lead the future of Japan, and to contribute to the promotion of academia and science and technology and the healthy development of children and youth, through holding a free VR research competition for children and students.
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VR Innovation Organization General Incorporated Association https://vrio.jp VR Research Ethics Society Promotion Foundation https://svre.jp Association of Academic Advancement Specialists https://eaas.or.jp