VRChat Operator V Joins AIST Panel on VR and AR Safety
A VRChat-focused operator now has a seat at a national research committee, giving the platform's community experience a direct channel into official safety standards for VR and AR.
Reporting from 1 source: KAI-YOU.
Kota Fujiwara, CEO of V, and Eriko Oyamada, its administrative strategy director, joined the AIST committee on interverse biosafety. The panel studies ways to reduce VR sickness and 3D visual fatigue, and how to put those measures into practice. V will feed its operational knowledge from VRChat services into the research.
The committee sits within the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, tied to the Cabinet Office's Strategic Innovation Promotion Program, or SIP, third phase on infrastructure and rules for a growing virtual economy. AIST defines the interverse as a communication space that fuses the real and virtual worlds, and the panel brings in medical and ergonomics experts alongside industry members.
Fujiwara founded V in 2019 and has run planning, production, and community work for companies, local governments, and IP holders around VRChat. Oyamada previously worked in Yokosuka's tourism section on regional collaborations with games such as Pokémon GO, Shenmue, Azur Lane, and Monster Hunter, and since 2023 has led the VRChat-based municipal project Metaverse Yokosuka.
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