Report on winning Laval Virtual Award 2007
  1. Grand Prix du Jury, Trophées Laval Virtual
    (Laval Virtual Award "Grand Prix" Award)     (2007)
  2. Interfaces de réalité virtuelle, Trophées Laval Virtual
    (Laval Virtual Award, VR Interfaces Award)     (2007)

Ceremony
Ceremony like the Academy Award
All winners in Laval Virtual 2007.


Buru-Navi (Movie uploaded by Laval Virtual official committee)

Grand Prix du Jury
Buru-Navi

by NTT Corporation (Tomohiro Amemiya et al.)

When a small object in a hand-held device moves periodically and prismatically with asymmetric acceleration (strong in one direction and weak in the other), one typically experiences the kinesthetic illusion of pushing or pulling continuously by the held device. This effect was investigated because of its potential application to a hand-held, non-grounded, haptic device that can convey a sense of a continuous translational force in one direction, which is a yet missing tile in haptic research. A one degree of freedom haptic device based on a crank-slider mechanism was constructed.

Tomohiro Amemiya, Taro Maeda, Hideyuki Ando, "Come Over Here, or Catch You!", Laval Virtual ReVolution, Laval, France, April 2007.

entrance view of Laval Virtual presentation
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Certification

Feedback
  • Laval Virtual Official Site
  • Le palmare`s des trophe'es Laval Virtual (ITR Manager.com)
    NTT Corporation pour le projet Buru-Navi Interface innovante qui guide un utilisateur gra^ce a` un inge'nieux me'canisme qui donne l'impression que la main est tire'e dans la direction vers laquelle l'utilisateur doit aller.

    • ----quotation from ITR Manager.com

  • NEWS.fr
  • High-tech-info
    Le groupe NTT propose en de'monstration un plateau qui dirige le garc,on de cafe' vers ses clients, gra^ce a` un syste`me de vibrations qui perdent en intensite' si le porteur fait fausse route. Mais ce n'est pas qu'un gadget. "Nous sommes une entreprise de te'le'phonie", explique son repre'sentant Tomohiro Amemiya. "Comme beaucoup de te'le'phones portables sont de'sormais dote's d'un GPS, l'inte'gration d'un tel dispositif permettrait a` des personnes a^ge'es ou mal voyantes de se diriger seules", explique-t-il.
    • ----quotation from High Tech Info
    preparation
    Many people listen to the explanation of how to create a pseudo-attraction force..
    Our booth
    Many people watched the demonstration.