{"id":160,"date":"2019-10-28T14:16:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T14:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/?p=160"},"modified":"2020-03-06T00:44:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:44:32","slug":"changes-to-the-uw-reality-lab-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Changes to the UW Reality Lab Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve had a major change in <a href=\"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/components\/people.html#members\">our team<\/a> here at the UW Reality Lab:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April, <a href=\"https:\/\/homes.cs.washington.edu\/~aditya\/\">Aditya Sankar<\/a> accepted a position at Apple. &nbsp;Aditya helped us create the UW Reality Lab from the very beginning and taught the VR\/AR Capstone class in 2018.  We know he\u2019ll do good things for Apple! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This left a huge hole in our team, but fortunately, we have found a successor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In October, <a href=\"https:\/\/jakers.tech\/index.html\">John Akers<\/a> joined as our new Director of Research and Education!&nbsp; John received his Masters from UW in Computer Science &amp; Engineering, focusing on extended reality and user experience engineering, and he worked in the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology, researching accessible inputs for VR.&nbsp; John has already begun planning our new Incubator space that will open in January, and is reviewing project proposals for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2DREs-1024x528.jpg\" alt=\"2 DIrectors of Research &amp; Education\" class=\"wp-image-163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2DREs-1024x528.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2DREs-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2DREs-768x396.jpg 768w, https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2DREs.jpg 1388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve had a major change in our team here at the UW Reality Lab: In April, Aditya Sankar accepted a position at Apple. &nbsp;Aditya helped us create the UW Reality&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/?p=160\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","gt-excerpt","gt-excerpt-thumbnail-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realitylab.uw.edu\/staging\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}