Makda

Not food poisoning – POV v2

/ staticsky

Adit here – We just said it was the food, but I caused her a bit of a seizure, well not a bit, I mean any seizure is a seizure but it was mild.  It was an absence seizure, she went blank for a second and then just got really nauseous.  She made it to the bathroom on time.  

I got a little board that you can easily tuck away on one of the goggle’s straps.  We tested it on Kaitlyn to see if she could get the video feed of the goggle’s camera to go straight to her brain.  POV was mapping the simulation’s data to our brains, there was no original visual at all until our brain visualized it.  I was mapping the real visuals captured by the goggle’s camera to a data format similar to how the simulation processed.  

I tweaked that process to make it more efficient, but what I did contained a mistake, but I am not sure which change was the route of the problem.  We’ll go back to exactly the same method tomorrow. 

I guess my mistake was subconscious revenge for all the seizures you two gave me when making Adit 2.0.  Yes I know about Adit 2.0 terminology – I’m not mad, it fits.  I’m not mad about the seizures either, I am definitely not seeking revenge.  I know you know this, but I want it on the record.  Our record. A record only we read?

This does mean that the frequency method of triggering the neurons isn’t as full proof as we thought.  When and if things are a bit more calm around here I’ll work with Janice and see if she or one of her team members has an idea of what happened.  I don’t like being restricted to a method I know isn’t as efficient as it could be.  But I don’t like giving folks seizures even more, so I’m in no real rush to figure this out.

Chen and Makda are also basically done with the old style VR set up, but they made a custom kernel to run their system that isn’t just an old VR unit but is easily extensible, that can support input from the simulation and export data to alter the simulation, and, ahead of schedule, can support any type of security we develop.  There’s your writing on a white board Rob.

Distraction does set the mind at ease

/ staticsky

As has been the case before, our team lives and relaxes by doing the work – work on our project (or project adjacent) – work they hopefully still love, and especially now when there is nothing else.  Again this morning, and I think perhaps every morning from now on, begun with the team gathering in our central area.  The status brief portion of the status meeting was indeed brief – as work on anything at all had just began. It was mostly teams announcing what hardware they need immediately and that for what items they would be filling out additional sacred forms.  

Next, and perhaps in reality the most important part of the meeting, was the status about – us.  Our people, this place, what we have learned.  Janice started by first thanking everyone who had volunteered to help with Sally, i.e. being Sally’s escorts, guard the bathrooms for her, etc.  And she made an announcement that got a cheer, Sally talked with other kids yesterday.  As much as Sally loves us and has fun with us, let’s face it we are all adults, perhaps not in maturity, but definitely in age.  So a lady named Jane (wait, why does Lady Jane sound familiar?) stopped by Janice and Sally’s room short of breath and told Sally she had rushed over because she realized that Sally had never been invited to the meeting which had just started. Since she noted Sally wasn’t online she had rushed over to let her know.  [there were chuckles amongst the team about this glorious example of Abzu’s high tech organization].  What meeting?  Oh, it was Sally’s introduction to some of the other kids in Abzu.  Sally’s slate (Abzu supplied, not this one) had been configured with the, get this, The Intecela – the Abzu wide grid.  Sally had more access than anyone on our team.  The call went well – it sounds like, surprise, surprise, the other kids are pretty geeky too.  None of them are in our Cela so Lady Jane (I’m sticking with that) is going to arrange a field trip soon for Sally to meet them all in person.  More cheering all around.

After that great news the meeting got pretty lighthearted. Chen noted that he and Erik had a chat with some folks from another group that works on our floor.  They didn’t tell Chen or Erik what their projects entailed because supposedly our team is supposed to go into the science fair all “tabula rasa.” Yeah, that won’t be hard.  Anyway they did let Chen and Erik know that our team is nicknamed The Sims around the Cela. While we don’t know anything about anyone, it looks like they know what we do, I wonder if they know more about what we do than we do.

The general reaction to the nickname was met positively by the folks that had even heard of the old game. When Chen started explaining the game he went off on a tangent about putting all the sims folks in a pool and then building a fence around it so they couldn’t escape and they all would swim themselves to death, there was an uncomfortable hush until Alice chimed in with a very loud aside “guess I better double check his code.”  Chen laughed the hardest.

“Sims it is” I ended the meeting with, and then called out folks to work on the early stages of Visual POV.  Kaitlin and Adit of course because it eventually will segue into POV but also Chen and Makda to work on a basic VR device so we can quickly get private communication happening outside of just Sally’s slate.  Makda is part of Kaitlin’s team and seems to have an affinity for retro-tech like Chen – once they have the parts we’ll have our private chalk board up and running in a day (or two)

I desperately want to talk to Janice about “us” and that seems incredibly selfish with everything else going on.  I just have to wait.  And how does “us” work in a Cela anyway?  The truth is this is a prison for us, certainly a very interesting one, but it is a place we can’t leave – and it is weird that fact seems to be normalized already.

I think this is why my entries have been longer and more regular – I have internalized I have nothing else I can do, which is a lot more restricting than my previous situation of just not doing anything else.

And Adit, this is weird.  This “blog” has always been a semi-personal journal, the fact that we are also now formally using it as communication between us makes it awkward.  Just wanted to put that out there.