Jared Canright

(He/him) VR/AR @BoozAllen. PhD Physics from UW; created NOMR, a VR lab with novel physics. VP IT for 🌈 @OUTinSTEM. 🐕 Dahli, 💍 @JoshLaBounty. Opinions my own.

[Jared Canright @Jpcanright]

@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.

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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.

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

[Jared Canright @Jpcanright]

Un-bee-leave-able.

[Jared Canright @Jpcanright]

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.

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@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.

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

[Jared Canright @Jpcanright]

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.

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

[Elin Björling ☮️ @elinbjorling]

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.

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@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.

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

"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 -

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@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.

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@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.

[Jared Canright @Jpcanright]

@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.

[Freya Holmér @FreyaHolmer]

[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

[Jared Canright @Jpcanright]

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

[Jared Canright @Jpcanright]

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

[Jared Canright @Jpcanright]

@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)

[Jared Canright @Jpcanright]

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