著者

廣瀬 通孝

出版者

特定非営利活動法人 横断型基幹科学技術研究団体連合

雑誌

横幹 (ISSN:18817610)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.4, no.2, pp.94-96, 2010

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"Virtual Reality (VR)" is a name of the technology to give us an opportunity to go insidean image world synthesized by computers. This word has become popular to the public since 1989.Thanks to the progress of computer technology, various VR-like services and applications are availablein our society nowadays. Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ) was established in 1996 topromote communication among the researchers and engineers of this field. This paper introduces thehistory and current activities of VRSJ and Virtual Reality R&D.