Kenichi Ito

The University of Tokyo | Todai · Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies

Numerous wind displays have been developed to provide wind sensation in virtual reality applications. However, in previous studies, wind displays required the production of physical wind using a wind source. To release cold or hot wind, previous wind displays required large equipment for making the air temperature changes. In this study, we propose...

Wind displays, which simulate the sensation of wind, have been known to enhance the immersion of virtual reality content. However, certain wind displays require an excessive number of wind sources to simulate wind from various directions. To realize wind displays with fewer wind sources, a method to manipulate the perceived directions of wind by au...

Wind display which presents the feelings of wind has been developed for the purpose of improving the presence of virtual reality. Most of the existing wind displays express various wind by blowing actual airflow. However, they require lots of wind sources to reproduce the wind directions. The main contribution of this study is proposing a method to...

We developed AlteredWind, a multisensory wind display system that manipulates users’ perception of wind by the integration of visual, audio, and wind stimuli. The wind displays are devices which present the sensation of wind and improve presence and immersion of virtual reality (VR). However, existing wind displays require lots of wind sources to r...

Wind display is a device which presents the sensation of wind for the purpose of improving the presence in virtual reality. Most of the existing wind displays express various wind sensations by blowing air from multiple wind sources. However, existing wind displays require lots of wind sources to reproduce different wind directions. The main contri...