At the award ceremony
(From left) Prof. MIYASHITA Homei and KODAIRA Otone
Demonstration booth
At the Entertainment Computing 2024 (EC2024), held at the Hokkaido Information University from September 2 to 4, 2024, Ms. KODAIRA Otone, a third-year student of the Department of Frontier Media Science at the School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences of Meiji University, and Professor MIYASHITA Homei received the Interactive Presentation Award for their “Virtual Oil Generator: Toward the realization of a production device for various fat-free oils.”
This is an award given to an outstanding research presentation in the demonstration or poster presentations based on participants’ voting.
In this research, a liquid that feels like fat-free olive oil was produced. Inulin and low-strength agar were used to reproduce the texture, taste, and appearance. The system is named after a virtual reality approach that gives rise to the feeling of consuming oil as an overall sensation, rather than as a fatty taste. As such liquids can be output using TTTV3 [1] [2], this method may be applied to output various types of oils or personalized oils. The MIYASHITA Laboratory will further develop this technology as Sol Food Print Technology.
At the time of the presentation, a demonstration was given in which a liquid reproducing olive oil was output and tasted. Many participants commented that they thought it contained oil, and participants with an impaired sense of taste and smell commented that the texture was similar to oil. There was a lot of discussion about the usefulness of this method, such as “Even if you get it on your clothes, it is safe because there is no grease stain,” “You can make ajillo with this liquid and enjoy drinking it down,” and “It may be effective for dieting.”
[1] MIYASHITA Homei, MURAKAMI Shuto, OTOMO Chihiro, and FUKAIKE Miku: TTTV3 (Transform The Taste and reproduce Varieties): Seasoning mechanism that reproduces differences in tastes in production areas and varieties, and taste expression by LLM, the collection of academic papers of the Entertainment Computing Symposium 2023, Vol. 2023, pp. 236–243 (2023).
[2] MURAKAMI Shuto and MIYASHITA Homei: Design and implementation of TTTV3 (Transform The Taste and reproduce Varieties), a pump mixing-type seasoning appliance, the collection of academic papers of the 28th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (2023).
