Marie Witt

Virtual Reality UX Research, University of British Columbia - Brain, Attention & Reality Lab // Former Motion Capture Coord. at Weta Digital #VRresearch #VR #AR

[University of British Columbia @UBC]

@SSHRC_CRSH @CRC_CRC @NSERC_CRSNG @CIHR_IRSC @InnovationCA 85 new projects led by #UBC researchers are receiving $17M through @NSERC_CRSNG Discovery Grants, and a further $2.7M for 22 projects through the Research Tools and Instruments program. Congratulations!

Learn more about the projects ➡️ https://t.co/49cI84Kztc

[Kent Bye (Voices of VR) @kentbye]

If you have some time to try some of the 27 immersive stories from #XR3 this weekend, then this thread 🧵👇should help you pick which of the 3 DLCs to dig into. There's *a lot* of really amazing work only available until June 20th. At least grab free copy of @MuseumOR to explore.

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

Ahahaha. How to make your LibArts degree sound like you a CompSci degree so you can run the company social media account for $15.00/hr

[Mario Gabriele @mariogabriele]

People love to dunk on Liberal Art majors.

But the skills you pick up in these degrees are super valuable. They just need rebranding...

English = Storytelling
History = Pattern Matching
Psych = Human Behavior, EQ, Marketing
Poli Sci = Systems Design, Incentives

All important.

[Jen Hartmann @jenalyson]

Me: Fail fast! Mistakes are development gold! Live and learn! “Get knocked down 7 times get up 8”

Also me *making a negligible error* That’s it. My career is over. I’m an imposter!

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

@tdnvl Thanks for the recommendation!

[Mike McCready @MikeMcCready]

Merging Realities starts today. Join for free and find out how VR/AR is making an impact for our partners. Come check out the event and see how we can help your organization.

#VR #AR #XRImpact #MergingRealities

https://t.co/LR54PKkP9a

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

@awoods @mulegirl I respectfully don’t share this perspective. We are comparing human judgement. The average drivers ability to select an optimal outcome in a collision is not going to be more reliable than the average programmers ability to test it

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

Wow, I could not love this more

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

To illustrate, here is how the maps look for Minneapolis (most ordered) & Charlotte (most disordered), rendered with this amazing tool for showing maps of roads by @anvaka: https://t.co/erVuwOOSWJ

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

This thread made me 😊

[Sos "Wishlist Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @Sosowski]

Tell me how long you've been using computers without telling me how long you've been using computers.

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

My feed is full of tech pessimism today. Take a deep breath and repeat after me: computers are not replacing humans. Tech is a toolkit. Let’s stay real. Let’s be grateful. Let’s inspire each other to make it better and more ethical. Complaining is easy. Let’s work.

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

@awoods @mulegirl You have a lot of faith in other human drivers capabilities!

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

@mulegirl I completely disagree for so many reasons, the first being numbers of vehicle fatalities, the last being how short sighted it is to ignore the project of tech dev overall. The components being developed to make that work open the door for so much invention

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

@JohnSigmon just joshin

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

@JohnSigmon Going back to work FT helped me

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

@corybramall d) part of the C suite?

[Kent Bye (Voices of VR) @kentbye]

1/ THREAD covering a #NeuroRights gathering co-sponsored by @FBRealityLabs & @Columbia_NTC's @neuro_rights called "Noninvasive Neural Interfaces: Ethical Considerations Conference."
They'll be Looking at the ethical implications of XR technologies from neuroscience POV.

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

Never lived there ... but for some reason totally feel this

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

Omg whhhat! 😆

[James Wagner @ByJamesWagner]

This is wild.

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

@corybramall Starts to look weird guys

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

@corybramall You know I love start ups and actually love that kind of ambiguity but can we please drop the professional sounding job descriptions and just be real??? Like: we are starting up. It’s going to be bumpy, we are going to ask for too much but we are stoked. Wanna play?

[Marie Witt @megawitt]

@corybramall Must have own car, computer, cell phone