Waltham/Boston for IEEE VR2010: Day Five, The Demos

To get in my SV hours, I had been working pretty much all day Saturday and Sunday. Today, I only had to work at lunch, so I could sit in on some sessions as I chose. This is a small enough conference that there's only one thing going on at a time most of the time, which is nice, because that means I can go to everything.

We did get to play with some cool toys in the demo and exhibit rooms:

And this is quite possibly my favorite picture from the whole conference:

We were evaluating some wide field of view HMDs. We also got to play with some haptics devices which were cool, but we don't really have a reason to get them.

We attended a panel called "What is VR?" where the inclusion and exclusion criteria were argued. That was interesting, and people were quite opinionated. Amy got some good ideas for a study from the discussion. I learned that I have a lot to learn, since I wasn't sure what they were talking about some of the time.

That evening, we took a bus over to WPI for a reception with demos. Here's us being the cool kids in the back of the bus:

On the ride over, Dr. Hodges told us his post-high school life story. He's done a lot more than just VR research! 

And here are some photos of us at the demos.

I drove a robot:

We took a picture with the guy who asks scary questions:

Toni found someone else with her name:

And we took a lab family picture :) Some of us are standing on a robot!

We decided when we get back we're making a Dr. Hodges family tree. He's had sooo many students, and now his students have students, and they're all over the place! It'd be cool to see all the relationships.

On the bus ride back, I sat with Seth, who is planning on applying to Clemson's Ph.D. program. It was good getting to know him since I hadn't spent that much time talking to him. Once we got back, it was straight to bed.