Born 1969, NAEMURA holds Ph.D. from the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. He was a visiting associate professor at Stanford University and currently teaches as an associate professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology and the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. He is the chairman of Virtual Reality Society of Japan Special Interest Group of Arts and Entertainment. His works include "i-ball", "Thermo-key", "LIFLET", "Lumisight Table", "Strino", "through the looking glass", "Graphic Shadow", and "Tablescape Plus".