Waltham/Boston for IEEE VR2010: Day Four, Uneventful

No chaos today (very thankfully). My job this morning was to chase down presenters after their sessions to get them to sign release forms and put their powerpoints onto a Flash drive. It's a bit of an intimidating job, but not too bad overall. While in those sessions there was a nifty talk about making a system that tracked a hot wire foam cutter and made a 3D computerized model of whatever the person was cutting out of the foam. I'm not doing a good job describing it, but it was awesome. The presenter was Michael Marner from University of South Australia; I can't find his website.

I sat outside of a session entitled "Building your own projection-based VR display system" from 1:30 to 5:30 this afternoon. It was actually a couple old acquaintances from VRST 2007 running the session, so it was cool seeing them. I don't know that I'll end up working in VR primarily but if I do it'll be kind of nice because it's a small enough community of us that I'm starting to recognize names and faces from year to year.

Finally, I went into the city yet again to meet up with some old friends, Alex and his girlfriend, Emily. I forgot my camera but Alex did take this one picture:

Alex and Emily met me and we went to an Irish restaurant. I had lobster rolls and this delicious chocolate cake with coffee ice cream. Mmm. It was so good catching up with them. Alex was one of my best friends for a lot of undergrad and I hadn't seen him in almost a year and a half.

I got back to the hotel and got to talk to my boyfriend for a while--he had just got back from a week in the Bahamas. Sleepy and content, I headed to bed...and Samantha, Toni, and I proceeded to lay in bed and have girl talk until 1:30 in the morning, which I don't get to do too often. I fell asleep feeling full and satisfied. Life's good :)