We spent nearly an entire year building our Holojam demo for this week’s big SIGGRAPH conference. Yet it wasn’t until after we actually showed it — and got feedback from a large number of people — that I finally understood the significance of what we had built.
By “significance” I don’t mean long-term significance. As researchers, we were thinking about that quite a lot. I’m talking here about immediate significance.
All sorts of people, including effects animators, film directors and scientists, started to tell us things they would now be able to do, after having experienced our shiny new toy.
So here we were, completely focused on how our research could possibly impact things in twenty or thirty years from now, and we somehow missed the fact that it is also very likely to impact things right now.
Isn’t there a saying that sometimes you can’t see the trees for the forest? If not, there really should be.
congrats. How exciting 🙂