is a Japanese engineer and the creator of the
Megastar, a
planetarium
A planetarium ( planetariums or ''planetaria'') is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation.
A dominant feature of most planetarium ...
projector which was recorded in
Guinness World Records
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as the planetarium projector that can project the highest number of stars in the world.
Ohira has also designed the Sega
Homestar, a home planetarium projector for
Sega
is a Japanese multinational corporation, multinational video game and entertainment company headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Its international branches, Sega of America and Sega Europe, are headquartered in Irvine, California and London, r ...
. According to the Japan Planetarium Association, the popularity of this educational toy has contributed to an increase in visitors to full-sized planetaria in Japan. The newest model, released in 2019, is called ''Homestar Flux''.
Profile
Ohira was born in
Kawasaki, Kanagawa
is a Cities of Japan, city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, one of the main cities of Greater Tokyo Area and Keihin Industrial Area. It is the second most populated city in Kanagawa Prefecture after Yokohama, and the List of cities in Japan, eight ...
on March 11, 1970, and graduated from faculty of mechanical engineering and graduate school of precision engineering in
Nihon University
, abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Japan. Its predecessor, Nihon Law School (currently the Department of Law), was founded by Yamada Akiyoshi, the Minister of Justice (Japan), Minister of Justice, in 1889. ...
.
References
People from Kawasaki, Kanagawa
1970 births
21st-century Japanese inventors
Japanese mechanical engineers
Living people
Nihon University alumni
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