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• BBC News. "Inventor plans 'invisible walls,'" BBC News, published June 14, 2004.
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• M. Inami, N. Kawakami, D. Sekiguchi, Y. Yanagida, T. Maeda and S. Tachi. "Visuo-Haptic Display Using Head-Mounted Projector."
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• M. Inami, N. Kawakami and S. Tachi. "Optical Camouflage Using Retro-reflective Projection Technology," Proceedings of the Second IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 03).
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• S. Feiner. "Augmented reality: A new way of seeing," Scientific American. April 2002, pp. 48-55.
• S. Tachi. "Telexistence and Retro-reflective Projection Technology (RPT)," Proceedings of the 5th Virtual Reality International Conference (VRIC2003), pp. 69/1-69/9.
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