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Synesthesia Suit

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Haptic Interaction (AsiaHaptics 2016)

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The Synesthesia Suit provides immersive embodied experience in Virtual Reality environment with vibrotactile sensations on the whole body. Each vibrotactile actuator provides not a simple vibration but we designed the haptic sensation to match virtual reality contents.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by JST-ACCEL Embodied Media project and technically supported by Mr. 2bit ISHII and Rhizomatiks team. The costume was designed by Mr. Toshihiko Sakurai. “Rez Infinite” was developed by Monstars and Resonair.

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  1. Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, Minato-ku, Japan

    Yukari Konishi, Nobuhisa Hanamitsu, Benjamin Outram, Youichi Kamiyama, Kouta Minamizawa & Tetsuya Mizuguchi

  2. Rhizomatiks co. ltd., Shibuya, Japan

    Ayahiko Sato

  3. Enhance Games, Inc., 4-1-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama-City, Kanagawa, 223-8526, Japan

    Tetsuya Mizuguchi

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  1. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

    Shoichi Hasegawa

  2. Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Masashi Konyo

  3. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Ki-Uk Kyung

  4. The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

    Takuya Nojima

  5. The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroyuki Kajimoto

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Konishi, Y. et al. (2018). Synesthesia Suit. In: Hasegawa, S., Konyo, M., Kyung, KU., Nojima, T., Kajimoto, H. (eds) Haptic Interaction. AsiaHaptics 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 432. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4157-0_84

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