Michael Rohs (right) and Sven Kratz (middle) from Deutsche Telekom Labs came over from Berlin for a three day visit this week to discuss projects, ideas and where to go next from what Michael and I have been working on over last one and a half years. Together with John Dawson (left), who's just started his PhD with me (literally - he started on Monday), we had some intense and quite productive brainstorming sessions to map out interesting areas of research. It'll take some time to sort through the all, but we managed to come up a good plan for the coming months and deadlines.

While they were here, Michael and Sven also got the usual round of demos including the ambient kitchen, all the different tabletop systems we've got assembled in Culture Lab, a very tiny glimpse a Jayne's digital jewellery (she wasn't there) as well as the CAVE (immersive video and a bit of VR). On the photo, John, Sven and Michael are just about to embark on some life-size Quake-type experience - properly outfitted with the stylish shutter glasses required for the 'true' 3D experience...