Our lab, in collaboration with another lab at NYU, is working on a project to be presented the ACM/Siggraph 2025 conference. It will be multi-participant blended reality, and it will be very cool.
One of the first things we need to do is create a presentation of the project. We need to do this before we actually implement the project itself.
Of course we need to do this as part of our planning and production. But we also need to do it to fund the project.
Essentially, this presentation is a prospectus that we shop around to various high tech companies. We invite them to give us money, and sometimes they say yes.
They don’t do this because they like to give money away, but rather because it is an accepted way to create a bridge to our academic research. And if all goes well, they will end up discovering which of our highly talented grad students they want to hire.
So everybody wins. Also, we all get to prototype the future. 🙂