{"id":45234,"date":"2016-10-05T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=45234"},"modified":"2016-10-05T11:30:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:30:43","slug":"picture-scroll-of-the-tale-of-genji-in-virtual-space-developing-new-technologies-to-display-cultural-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/45234","title":{"rendered":"Tale of Genji in virtual space? Developing new technologies to display cultural properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kawai Laboratory, under the supervision of <a href=\"https:\/\/researchers.waseda.jp\/profile\/en.c00cc7ad6ba2f62d1a7fdfdecef8f4f9.html\">Professor Takashi Kawai <\/a>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fse.sci.waseda.ac.jp\/dept-en\/ias2015\/\">Department of Intermedia Art and Science,<\/a> has been conducting experiments on stereoscopic 3D images and virtual reality from an ergonomic perspective (meaning, comfort design catering to human factors). The laboratory has proposed and evaluated new ways to appreciate cultural properties through such advanced technologies.<\/p>\n<p>As one of the projects to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Waseda University&#8217;s Central Library, the Kawai Laboratory, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/library\/en\/\">Waseda University Library<\/a>, and Re-Invention Co., Ltd. created virtual reality content on the automated storage and retrieval system (known as <em>Jid<span class=\"st\">\u014d<\/span>shoko<\/em>), which most library users do not get to see, and on the most popular picture scrolls from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/en-news\/44975\">the Kotenseki Sogo Database<\/a>, \u201cFour Seasons in Genji\u201d and \u201cAtsumori.\u201d By using a stereoscope device, the videos can be viewed 360 degree in 3D virtual reality. Such interdisciplinary, industry-academic collaboration demonstrates an exciting alternative on presenting cultural properties and institutions content which differs from your visits to the library and museums as well as looking at 2D digital archives.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the research, contact Professor Kawai: <a href=\"http:\/\/tkawai@waseda.jp\">tkawai@waseda.jp<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>The following 360\u00b0VR\u00d73D videos can be viewed using Youtube&#8217;s VR mode<\/h4>\n<h3>BOOKS IN WONDERLAND (<em>Jid<span class=\"st\">\u014d<\/span>shoko<\/em>)<\/h3>\n<p>The virtual reality content for the automated storage and retrieval system depicts a book being extracted from the archives by a conveyor system.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u300cBOOKS IN WONDERLAND\uff5e\u7a7a\u9593\u306e\u65c5\uff5e\u300d\u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u4e2d\u592e\u56f3\u66f8\u9928\u81ea\u52d5\u66f8\u5eab 360\u00b0VR\u6620\u50cf\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GWGo8dWbqIY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Experience the graceful world of &#8220;Four Seasons in Genji&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>The virtual reality content of the picture scrolls immerse its viewers to the captivating, floating world of classical Japanese literature. &#8220;Four Seasons in Genji&#8221; comes with the narration by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/adv\/wol\/dy\/opinion\/culture_150216.html\">Professor Gaye Rowley<\/a> from the Faculty of Law.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/MgLRai0JZOw<\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Atsumori&#8221; picture scroll<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coming Soon!! \u6566\u76db\u7d75\u5dfb \u65e9\u7a32\u7530\u5927\u5b66\u4e2d\u592e\u56f3\u66f8\u9928 \u6240\u8535\u8cc7\u6599 360\u00b0VR\u6620\u50cf\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZL_4CIHUGDs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nExperience 360\u00b0VR\u00d73D videos at the following events.<\/p>\n<h5>Library Week 2016<\/h5>\n<p>Date: October 3 &#8211; 7, 2016<br \/>\nTime: 11:30 &#8211; 12:30<br \/>\nVenue: Study Room A on the 2nd floor of Waseda University Central Library<\/p>\n<h5>The Library and Me<\/h5>\n<p>Date: October 21, 2016<br \/>\nTime: 14:00 &#8211; 14:50<br \/>\nVenue: VR Booth on the 1st Floor of the International Conference Center, Building 18, Waseda University<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the events, contact Waseda University Library: <a href=\"lib-25shunen-novelty@list.waseda.jp\">lib-25shunen-novelty@list.waseda.jp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kawai Laboratory, under the supervision of Professor Takashi Kawai from the Department of Intermedia Art a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-45234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-research-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45302,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45234\/revisions\/45302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}