202510.11
Katahira Festival 2025: Showcasing Neuroscience through a VR Experience Booth
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On Saturday, October 11, 2025, our Human Brain Science Division hosted a VR experience booth at Katahira Festival 2025.
Under the theme “Heart-Pounding High-Altitude VR Experience: How Does It Affect the Brain?”, visitors were invited to try out a VR simulation based on our ongoing research. The content allowed participants to safely experience the sensation of walking at a high place, recreating part of our actual experimental setup.
After the experience, we performed a brief motion analysis using recorded video of participants’ movements and explained how such VR environments are utilized in our neuroscience research.
On the day of the event, we had 66 participants — three times more than expected — but thanks to the advance preparation of numbered tickets, everything went smoothly and orderly.
Visitors —from children to adults—joined the booth, and we received numerous comments such as: “This research was really interesting,” and “I hope studies like this can be applied in real-world society.”
We will continue to take advantage of such opportunities to share our research in an accessible way and encourage broader interest in neuroscience.
(Guan, Deni, Shirahama, Chunlin, Ding) https://www.katahira-f.tohoku.ac.jp/
On Saturday, October 11, 2025, our Human Brain Science Division hosted a VR experience booth at Katahira Festival 2025.
Under the theme “Heart-Pounding High-Altitude VR Experience: How Does It Affect the Brain?”, visitors were invited to try out a VR simulation based on our ongoing research. The content allowed participants to safely experience the sensation of walking at a high place, recreating part of our actual experimental setup.
After the experience, we performed a brief motion analysis using recorded video of participants’ movements and explained how such VR environments are utilized in our neuroscience research.
On the day of the event, we had 66 participants — three times more than expected — but thanks to the advance preparation of numbered tickets, everything went smoothly and orderly.
Visitors —from children to adults—joined the booth, and we received numerous comments such as: “This research was really interesting,” and “I hope studies like this can be applied in real-world society.”
We will continue to take advantage of such opportunities to share our research in an accessible way and encourage broader interest in neuroscience.
(Guan, Deni, Shirahama, Chunlin, Ding)
https://www.katahira-f.tohoku.ac.jp/