Room Tilt Stick

Description: Room Tilt Stick provides an illusory experience of tilting a room using a stick and of walking on an acutely inclined slope, accomplished by correlating the tilting velocity of a three-dimensional modeled room in HMD with the degree of force transferred to the wall or ground with a special stick.

Presenter(s):
Kousuke Motohashi, Nagoya City University, Japan
Koyo Mori, Nagoya City University, Japan
Kenri Kodaka, Nagoya City University, Japan

Motohashi Kosa is a graduate student in the Graduate School of Design and Architecture, Nagoya City University. He is interested in distorting subjective gravity using HMD technology based on the physical interaction.

Koyo Mori is a researcher in the Graduate School of Design and Architecture, Nagoya City University. He is interested in using HMD technology to induce the sensation of stretching and contracting the body.

Kerni Kodaka is an associate professor in the Graduate School of Design and Architecture, Nagoya City University. His special interest is distorting the body-image using natural materials or virtual-reality techniques, in the framework of cognitive psychology.