As we work on the planning for our lab’s Siggraph 2025 project, I am aware of how much can go off the rails at the planning stage. We want to have something fun and interactive and immersive — and ideally inspiring and enlightening — for people to experience together, yet we know that things which are easy to describe in words can be very difficult to execute in practice.
Participants will not be aware of all the technical and design challenges involved in creating this experience, but their experience will most definitely be negatively impacted if we get any of it wrong. So as we design this, we always need to keep in mind what is easy, what is hard, and what is just plain beyond the reach of our timeline or resources.
As a wise person once said about anything new that you would like to bring into this world: Conception is always easier than delivery.