Today we moved into our new lab, a move that have have long been planning. This new lab is much larger and swankier than our old lab.
As I speak, industrious Ph.D. students are busily setting up the Optitrack motion tracking system, sorting through boxes, putting equipment into cabinets. My new office is still filled with boxes.
It feels like the dawn of a new era for our work. For the first time we have a dedicated space to conduct our research, rather than needing to rely on shared space.
The difference is that when you share a VR research space with classes and meetings by other groups, you are always tearing down your experiments and needing to set them up again. In the new space, we will have the stability to run longer term experiments.
It is daunting to gaze upon all of the boxes in my office, filled mostly with books. It will probably take me a full day to get myself sorted. Not that I am complaining. 🙂
Could you a photo of the new space when it’s set up? (Realizing, of course, said photo is irrelevant to the actual occupants with their goggles on…)
Sure, will do. As soon as we take things out of boxes.
Yes, that would be an interesting test of the state of technology: Whether we still care what the physical space around us actually looks like.
After all, a test of a previous successful technology was whether we still care what the ground feels like. I’m speaking, of course, of shoes.