Jared Canright

@sean_ong Exactly. There's at least a couple dozen Quest 1s sitting in a closet at UW hoping to be used as a class set again. I could see them being usable for that purpose for another 5 years easily.

@Jpcanright I have 5 Quest 1, a bunch of quest 2, 3, and one pro. Quest 1 are still very solid devices and can handle modern games well.

The Quest 1 originally released in May 2019. Not even 5 years old. They still work fine. This is insane. Will any investment in Meta VR hardware have a maximum shelf life of 5 years? That'd make for a very, very hard sell to most educators.

Is there a word for the smell of freshly cut grass? "Traumatized petrichor" is the best I can come up with.

Un-bee-leave-able.

Hello world! I'm on the market for a summer internship, contracting gig, or full-time job as early as June 3. I'm a passionate and skilled #VR/#AR developer and researcher with 5 years' experience designing, building, and assessing innovative, cutting-edge VR education apps.

@elinbjorling Whenever I see gun policy headlines making the rounds, all I can think about is the fact that the @NIH has given so few grants to study gun violence in the last decade that you could count them on one hand. Funding research should be policy step #1.

What is happening? Money makes the world go round and really, it should be people and science that affect policy. :(

@howie_hua @PhysLearning there's an audience for your research on the TonkTonk!

New TikTok video: There's a difference between - and -

A friend gave out kazoos as wedding favors in June. I've kept mine in my pocket ever since and you would not believe how often it comes in handy. Getting a class's attention? Kazoo. Tired of whooping and cheering at an event? Kazoo. Winning at trivia? Kazoo.

@elinbjorling Barely out of bed and I've already had enough academia for today

(Looks at her watch…) What year is it?

My @hcdeUW students are beginning their capstone prototyping phase. What are your favorite #prototyping resources when designing for #VirtualReality or XR? Wondering what some folks like @kentbye @michaelybecker and orgs like @IEEEVR are seeing/using/thinking about.

@danny_doucette Wonder if LANL management is aware that several of their staff scientists are spending their time calling out their own prejudices with a painfully long game of "um, actually" instead of whatever it is they're paid to be doing.

"That's beautiful, sweetheart" your voice shakes as your kid hands you yet another work of macaroni art. Sweat pools on your brow. You haven't seen the surface of your fridge door in 4 years. You try to wedge it between the handprint turkey and the pipe cleaner rainbow, but -

@danny_doucette @WorkersAtState The only reason grad workers have mental healthcare coverage and something resembling a living wage at UW is @UAW4121. Universities know exactly what they need to do to improve grad student mental health; they're just unwilling to loosen the purse strings to do so.

@nimajamalian The acronyms are kinda fun though. URP sounds like you're about to be sick, and HDRP "hudderp" sounds like you're saying "herp-a-derp" but with a syllable cut due to austerity.

Dear #Unity, you need to only have one rendering pipeline.

@benz145 Sadly no, but Beat Saber is close; it doesn't make the list but not for lack of merit. I just love a lot of other games. Notes on Blindness, despite not being a game, is my #1 favorite VR experience.

If you think about all of the games you've ever played, are any VR games on your 'top 10 games of all time'?

[tons of blood stains] what *happened* here?? [touching blood stain] alright, what were they doing [observes] okay so they're trying to - OOOOH THEY FORGOT TO CALL SetDirty() yeah yup that'd do it rip

@ZJAyres Welcome to the party!! 🎉🥳🎊 Everyone is late and the host forgot to buy solo cups, but at least we have the good drugs

Browsing Twooter before the morning amphetamines kicked in was a mistake--adhd zombie brain was not ready to be called out like this

@donaldLchi Not pens or pencils; everyone else is giving them out too, and the branded ones are rubbish 90% of the time. My faves: - Metal straws (preferably iridescent) - Pronoun pins - Pop sockets (kinda spendy) - Phone wallets - Webcam covers - Lip balm (you will save someone's day)

@mattsurely "Ye", "Yeet", "neat-o mosquit-o", "awesome opossum", "spinch", "birb", "skworl"... the list goes on.

What's a word you started off saying as a joke but is now part of your vocabulary?