Japan Electronics College Students Show Body-Driven VR At Tokyo Game Show 2026
The exhibit puts the input device itself in student hands, which is the part of VR hardware that schools rarely get to teach end to end.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
At Tokyo Game Show 2026, the Japan Electronics College booth presents three VR projects made by students. One tracks ankle movement so the user walks in place to move through VR. Others involve climbing a cliff with the hands and body, and a wheelchair fitted with sensors. Students built the devices themselves for the climbing and wheelchair pieces, and multiple departments worked together on the project.
The Japan Electronics College booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026 is running three student-made VR pieces, and none of them use a standard controller. One reads ankle motion: the user walks in place and the view moves with the feet. Another asks the visitor to climb a cliff with the hands and body. A third mounts sensors on a wheelchair and uses its movement to travel through the VR space.
For the climbing and wheelchair pieces, the students built the devices themselves, not only the software. The work comes out of a cross-department VR project in which different specialties contribute hardware, visuals, and programming to a single piece. One student at the climbing demo pointed at the booth poster and said he had drawn it.
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