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Yahoo! Trend Coaster

(Yahoo Japan Corporation)
Developed the "Yahoo! trend coaster" as the new sense hands-on attraction of combination of real-time search and virtual reality. The concept is to "get a wave of trend". "Yahoo! trend coaster"creates an original course generated from Yahoo! real-time search graph, which is based on"the wave of the trend" extracted from number of shares of the transition of the SNS. This provides a new experience of te actualy feeling not only by the data visualization but also by the data itself. Passenger wears the Oculus Rift, get into the drive simulator "Motion-sim" that tilts up to 30 degrees to the left and right before and after. This roller coaster gives an experience as if the passenger is riding a real one, by wind pressure from the industrial fan which Oculus Rift alone will not be able to feel the gravity and speed realistic, and the Carbon dioxide gas whichi s to stimulate a splash blown at the last.

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