Happy October! The weather is getting colder (yay) and it’s raining a lot more (boo, or yay?) What is “audience data”? How do we collect it? I believe the ultimate data you could collect from an audience would be what they’re thinking in realtime, but I suspect that collecting that would be extremely difficult and…
Theres an appropriate time for when you can throw a cat out of a window. A midtown veterinarian would tell you that out of 300 cats rushed into their clinic after a midday base jump, only 20 were seriously injured, and none had the unfortunate experience of losing one of their nine lives. This is…
Prepping a paper can cause quite a panic, Submitting an abstract can too. Publish or perish will leave you all manic, A dance ending Sept 22!
Every year, without falter, our lab goes through a “spring cleaning” (though almost never in spring). We rifle through the equipment we use, the cables we don’t, the desk space we have, and the people who have stayed through to the new academic year. There’s much that we deem fit to save for the upcoming…
This is going to be a short post, as we’re in the thick of preparing to take CAVE to SIGGRAPH 2018 in a week. Super exciting stuff, but hasn’t left me with much time for blog post writing! We’re in the quality assurance stages of CAVE – content is pretty much finished, the last cave…
As the premiere of CAVE at SIGGRAPH 2018 rapidly approaches, I’ve teamed up fellow FRL-er Connor Defanti and DGP-er Haijun Xia to design a survey. The main goal of the survey is to collect and evaluate what makes CAVE what it is: its strengths, weaknesses, and innovations which make such a phenomenal experience. I’ve found…
One of the first major decisions we had to make in the early stages of CAVE can be summed up as follows: how much agency are we going to give our audience members ? At first, we thought of having all of the audience members standing, allowing them to move around the virtual set freely,…
As we started spinning up production for CAVE, our massive SIGGRAPH show, we were immediately faced with a challenge: how do we go about animating the main character’s face? One idea was to find out if we could get access to a motion capture rig that could do facial capture, but that would limit all…