R&D For Entertainment VR from 1995.

AKIHIKO SHIRAI worked for Canon and Criterion as a game development consultant to distribute RenderWare, a multi-platform graphics middleware for the game industry until 2001. He had backed to academia and received his Ph.D. from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan in 2004 with research concerning the “Tangible Playroom”, an entertainment system for young children using haptics, a floor screen and a physics engine. He was a R&D researcher at NHK-ES in Japan, focusing on the next generation’s TV production environment before moving to ENSAM Presence & Innovation Laboratory in France in 2004 to 2007 for R&D of a Virtual Reality theme park project.

He worked for National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), Tokyo Japan, as a science communicator and exhibition planner for 2008 to 2010.

From 2010, he is working in Information Media, Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) as an associate professor.

Academic publications

http://blog.shirai.la/publications/

Entertainment virtual reality, interactive systems, games (classic also), computer graphics, computer vision, intelligent systems, Science Communication, networking, and education.