MA{VR}X Lab Manual

This is the lab manual for the Mixed Augmented ViRtual eXtended Reality Lab in the College of Applied Science and Technology at the University of Arizona.
Author

Ryan Straight

Published

February 3, 2023

Preface

This manual was created using Quarto. It’s magical.

The contents of this manual are heavily influenced by John Paul Minda and Emily Nielsen’s Lab Manual (2018). The full collection of influences and inspiration can be found in the manual’s GitHub repo.

Warning

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS! Until stated otherwise, the content of this book should be considered unofficial and in an active draft stage.

Using this book

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This manual is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. We encourage you to use the OSF project to cite this particular document (Straight 2021).

Structure

This manual should be considered a comprehensive living document aimed at presenting a unified understanding of how the lab works and what it should become.

Session Information

Here is the R session information from when the book was last compiled on 2023-02-03:

R version 4.2.2 (2022-10-31 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 22621)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] digest_0.6.31     lifecycle_1.0.3   jsonlite_1.8.4    magrittr_2.0.3   
 [5] evaluate_0.20     rlang_1.0.6       stringi_1.7.12    cli_3.6.0        
 [9] rstudioapi_0.14   vctrs_0.5.1       rmarkdown_2.20    tools_4.2.2      
[13] stringr_1.5.0     glue_1.6.2        htmlwidgets_1.6.1 yaml_2.3.6       
[17] xfun_0.36         fastmap_1.1.0     compiler_4.2.2    htmltools_0.5.4  
[21] knitr_1.41

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the people who supported the idea of the lab, have donated their blood, sweat, and tears to get it off the ground, to the colleagues and collaborators that make it work, to those that came before, and to those still to come.

Dr. Ryan Straight
Associate Professor of Practice in Applied Computing and Cyber Operations
Director, MA{VR}X Lab