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<td>call for summer intern candidates in mixed (augmented)
reality research, applications, and design</td>
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<th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Date: </th>
<td>Wed, 21 Jan 2015 22:19:32 +0000</td>
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<th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">From: </th>
<td>Jaron Lanier <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jalani@microsoft.com"><jalani@microsoft.com></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:feiner@cs.columbia.edu">feiner@cs.columbia.edu</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:feiner@cs.columbia.edu"><feiner@cs.columbia.edu></a>,
van Dam, Andries <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Andries_van_Dam@brown.edu"><Andries_van_Dam@brown.edu></a>,
'<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bolas@well.com">bolas@well.com</a>' <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bolas@well.com"><bolas@well.com></a>, Ken Perlin
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ken.perlin@gmail.com"><ken.perlin@gmail.com></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fuchs@cs.unc.edu">fuchs@cs.unc.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fuchs@cs.unc.edu"><fuchs@cs.unc.edu></a>, Ben Shneiderman
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ben@cs.umd.edu"><ben@cs.umd.edu></a>, Jeremy Bailenson
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bailenson@gmail.com"><bailenson@gmail.com></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:melslater@gmail.com">melslater@gmail.com</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:melslater@gmail.com"><melslater@gmail.com></a>, Lee Smolin
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lsmolin@perimeterinstitute.ca"><lsmolin@perimeterinstitute.ca></a>, Stephon Alexander
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Stephon.Alexander@dartmouth.edu"><Stephon.Alexander@dartmouth.edu></a>, Edward Frenkel
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:frenkelmath@gmail.com"><frenkelmath@gmail.com></a>, Carolina Cruz-Neira
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:carolina@acm.org"><carolina@acm.org></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Adrian.Cheok@city.ac.uk">Adrian.Cheok@city.ac.uk</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Adrian.Cheok@city.ac.uk"><Adrian.Cheok@city.ac.uk></a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tfurness@hitl.washington.edu">tfurness@hitl.washington.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tfurness@hitl.washington.edu"><tfurness@hitl.washington.edu></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:holl@cs.ucsb.edu">holl@cs.ucsb.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:holl@cs.ucsb.edu"><holl@cs.ucsb.edu></a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Bruce.Thomas@unisa.edu.au">Bruce.Thomas@unisa.edu.au</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Bruce.Thomas@unisa.edu.au"><Bruce.Thomas@unisa.edu.au></a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Michael.Haller@fh-hagenberg.at">Michael.Haller@fh-hagenberg.at</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Michael.Haller@fh-hagenberg.at"><Michael.Haller@fh-hagenberg.at></a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:frank.steinicke@uni-hamburg.de">frank.steinicke@uni-hamburg.de</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:frank.steinicke@uni-hamburg.de"><frank.steinicke@uni-hamburg.de></a></td>
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<td>Andy Wilson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:awilson@microsoft.com"><awilson@microsoft.com></a></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please feel encouraged to forward this to
colleagues who might be interested.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As you might have noticed, Microsoft just
announced something that’s been a pain to keep secret for many
years. We’ll sell an untethered, high performance mixed
reality hmd with excellent environment+user
sensing/interpretation. It’s called HoloLens. It’s actually
good. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s the project’s public site: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us">
http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us</a>
Wired has some coverage as well, and it’s somewhat accurate.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Anyway, we’re looking for wonderful,
ambitious research interns for this summer who are interested
in mixed reality. Typically these will be PhD candidates, but
there can be exceptions. The positions are paid, and the
interns will work in a Microsoft Research location, most
likely in Redmond, Washington.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is so much to be explored!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What are some new user interface principles
to be learned? We’ve learned a lot but have only begun to
test the amazing variety of new designs that are now possible.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What are some wonderful applications?
There are fun ones, of course. Augment food for kids? What
about education? Predict and visualize potential standing
waves in any environment the user walks into?
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What are some interesting physical
locations for apps? Clean rooms, to visualize the unclean?
An archeological site? Combine with other sensors to show how
WiFi signals propagate in a real location?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Can mixed reality be applied to cog sci
research in new ways? To behavioral therapy? To
diagnostics? To fitness?
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What new experiments can be defined to
study the so-called “memory palace effect” (mnemonic
environmental mapping)?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What are the best ways to integrate
physical objects with virtual visual content for haptic
interactions? Build a new musical instrument?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Are there new building blocks that we
haven’t thought of that would inspire developers?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And so on…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We will ONLY work with designs that could
NOT be done in a traditional/classical HMD (such as an
Oculus/EyePhone/etc.)
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We’ll have to talk to candidates and get to
know them. We’ll want to hear some ideas from them about
research directions they want to pursue. We are open to
projects that would include collaborations with others at
their universities as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Candidates can either submit specific
proposals, or can describe a general interest and apply on the
basis of relevant past work.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We haven’t shown all we’ve done with
HoloLens. Research notions from potential interns will have
to demonstrate a likely ability to go beyond what’s been done
internally- but there’s really no way to share what’s been
done internally at this time. So… in a way interns will have
to guess at what ideas will impress us, but that should make
them more ambitious.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Candidates will need to have sufficient
skills to program “holograms” on their own (in Windows,
obviously); the exception we’d consider is a pair dedicated to
collaborating, in which one member is able to both implement
and realize publication-grade research contributions and the
other has domain expertise or exceptional creative skills.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Interns will work directly with Jaron
Lanier, Andy Wilson, and/or other interesting people at
Microsoft. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is a fantastic opportunity for
students to get involved in a wonderful flowering of both
research and commercial opportunity.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Warmly,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jaron Lanier<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Andy Wilson<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Microsoft Research<o:p></o:p></p>
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