Michitaka Hirose RCAST, the University of Tokyo More than 10 years have passed since the term "virtual reality (VR)" was coined. During this decade, VR technology has made significant progress and has attracted interest from various fields. Recently, the use of VR technology in museum exhibits has become one of its most important application fields. In a virtual world, we can interact with historical architecture, artifacts and events recorded or simulated using computers. Sometimes this pseudo-experience is more fascinating than real experience because objects that do not exist in the real world can be easily simulated. In my presentation, I will introduce several recent topics associated with VR application to museum exhibits such as those under the "museum of city landscape" and virtual heritage reconstruction projects for educational purposes, and the "field pavilion" exhibit for EXPO 2005 which is a state-of-the-art exhibition framework that uses wearable computers. Michitaka Hirose is a professor of Computer Science atĦĦthe Research Center for Advanced Science & Technology(RCAST), the University of Tokyo. His research interest covers human interface, interactive computer graphics and virtual reality. Prof. Hirose received BE, ME and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1977, 1979 and 1982 respectively. He is a member of the ACM, IEEE, VRSJ (VR Society of Japan). He is also a planning committee member for EXPO2005 and an advisor of the national museum of emerging science and technology and innovation. Contact Prof. Hirose at RCAST, the University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, JAPAN. e-mail : hirose@cyber.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp Web site at http://www.cyber.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Hirose/