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Amemiya Lab
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The lab explores the subjective reality of VR through the characteristics of human perception and motion.
AboutAbout the lab
Rethinking subjective reality
The Amemiya Lab studies virtual reality (VR) with a focus on the characteristics of human perception and motion.
It researches the foundational technologies that create VR experiences, including multisensory display technologies, neural stimulation technologies, and motion generation technologies.
It also puts into practice how widely available VR devices can be used in everyday life, especially for education and training.
The lab has graduate students only, and accepts people from the humanities and the arts as well as from engineering and information science backgrounds.
Key terms
- pseudo-haptics
- Making people feel weight or resistance through visual and other cues, without actually applying any force
- kinesthetic illusion
- An illusion in which the joints or limbs feel as if they are moving even though the body is not moving
- neural stimulation
- A method of acting directly on nerves with electricity or other means. In VR, it is used to create sensations without going through the eyes or ears
NewsLab news
A project researcher and a master's student received the Honorable Mention for the Best Demo Award at Eurohaptics 2026
A team of master's students received the Excellent Learning Innovation Award at the Learning Innovation Grand Prix 2026
A firefighter training system developed through joint research received the Technology Award from the Japan Association for Fire Science and Engineering
A master's student received the MVE Award from the IEICE Technical Committee on Media Experience and Virtual Environment (MVE)
A master's student received the Academic Encouragement Award from the Virtual Reality Society of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies subjective reality by focusing on humans as VR users. Its work ranges from foundational technologies, such as force feedback that exploits perceptual characteristics and neural stimulation, to VR-based lectures and training.
*Illustrative imageLectures in Social VR Spaces
To make it easy to try VR lectures, the UTokyo VR Center has opened a classroom for VR lectures and a café-style space for socializing on Cluster, a virtual social platform.
*Illustrative imageSupporting Learning with Biosignals
The lab is developing a method that measures the degree of concentration from biosignals such as EEG and changes the playback speed of audio content accordingly.
*Illustrative imageExpressing Pseudo-Haptics
Force sensations such as being pulled or feeling weight are strongly affected by the characteristics of receptors and the structure of the body. Exploiting these characteristics, the lab studies technologies that express novel force sensations by combining them with information from the other senses.
*Illustrative imageConveying Information through Tendon Vibration
When vibration is applied to a tendon, a joint feels as if it is moving even though the body is not. Using this kinesthetic illusion, the lab studies user interfaces that convey information such as direction and intensity as bodily sensations.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Amemiya Lab are faculty, project researchers, visiting researchers, academic specialists and project specialists, and doctoral and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorTomohiro AmemiyaPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Optical illusion on the floor of the Duomo Firenze (61458)” Rhododendrites / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Lectures in Social VR Spaces: “Curtis Lecture Halls interior view1 empty class” Theonlysilentbob / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Supporting Learning with Biosignals: “EEG Experiment (cropped)” Flexagoon / CC0 (cropped)
- Expressing Pseudo-Haptics: “Set of five Swedish nested cup brass weights from 1852” R. Henrik Nilsson / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Conveying Information through Tendon Vibration: “Tuning forks - Various frequencies” K.Venkataramana / CC0 (cropped)
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