My daughter Isabella was born Nov. 10th, 2008. She's only 7 months old, but she's already got a head start on Virtual Reality...
Augmented Reality... labor time!
About a week before my wife was due, I placed her under house arrest—thinking that her taking things slowly would speed things up. It didn't help. When she was a week overdue, I tried to work from home "just in case". When she was a week and a half overdue, I found out about an Augmented Reality guest lecture by Steven Feiner being hosted at UF that evening...
Being a big fan of AR, I told my wife that I really wanted to go, but didn't want to leave her at home alone. She said she felt up to going with me to the seminar...
It was a great seminar. He talked about some of the uses of Augmented Reality and gave some examples of how it's currently being employed. Very cool—I'm glad I went. But as my wife and I were walking back to the car, she mentioned that she was having mild contractions. Needless to say, I started freaking out.
During the lecture, I had thought she was squirming because the wooden seats were uncomfortable (I thought so). But no, it was our precious little one trying to watch the guest lecture in person...
Virtual Reality
The next semester, I took the Virtual Experiences class at UF. The syllabus included 4 projects, each followed by a presentation to the class. Isabella came to see two of them.
The above picture shows Isabella wearing the V8 stereo 3D head-mounted display after I demoed a 3D space walk trainer/simulator.
I wonder what she'll get into now that I'm working at the Virtual Experiences Research Group at UF... ?
Other VR family members...
You can see my wife (Sherrie) in the video that Joon shot for our wheelchair simulator — she's the "manual wheelchair" driver. (We all thought it was ironic how a "virtual amputee" could have their legs crossed.)
About the author:
Ethan Blackwelder started working for the Virtual Experiences Research Group at UF in May 2009. He has NOT had a "Vasectomy Reversal"...
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