Halloween 2021

Most of the recent Spacedock updates was in preparation for multiple Halloween 2021 photoshoots. This included creating a Spacedock office as seen in Star Trek: Lower Decks and updating the interior of Spacedock: center dock window details, wall windows/details, and floor details.

As a bit of a tribute to CAVE2 itself, the original concept image is framed on the left. On the top shelf is sort of the lineage of my work at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) with a model for each of the major hardware systems I worked on.

From left to right (top shelf): TacTile, OmegaDesk, CyberCommons, CyberCommons Touch Wall, and CAVE2.

On the bottom shelf is a spaceship lineage of the 3D models I've made over the years.

From left to right (bottom shelf): Saturn V, Space Shuttle, International Space Station, TOS Constitution, Refit Constitution, Excelsior.

As EVL's weekly Zoom meeting was just before Halloween 2021, I had intended to use CAVE2 as a real-time Zoom background for the meeting. Due to the brightness of LCD displays I had to lower the brightness of the entire scene so it wouldn't be overexposed on Zoom.

The meeting was cancelled, but I did record a test video. The idea was I would play the docking animation while I was giving my update on Zoom.