File this in the short notice category - ICT has paid interships this summer. Apply here.
Not all will get funded, however the four positions that are posted for the lab I work in are:
3D Environment Artist Intern 0918
Mixed Reality Redirected Walking
Virtual Human Artist Intern 0919
Mixed Reality Virtual Humans
Data Collection Software Developer Intern 0920
Mixed Reality Redirected Walking
Gesture Markup Software Developer Intern 0921
Mixed Reality Virtual Humans
The ICT offers select interdisciplinary paid internships for creative and technical students wishing to pursue careers in simulation, interactive media, and virtual reality fields. ICT’s mission is to create compelling immersive and engaging systems for effective learning for the military, entertainment, and educational purposes.
"IBM has filed a patent (US 7484451) for Bionic Body Armor, that could essentially allow us to dodge bullets like Neo in The Matrix. The armor would scan areas for incoming projectiles and when one is detected the system would deliver a shock to the muscles causing a swift reflexive action away from the projectile."
I find this idea significant on two levels. 1) The inventor's courage to continue a train of thought that crossed paths with 'hey, I know, let's Taser the user!". 2) The nod to our augmented-human future: building a set of ears, a reptillian reflex brain, and inducing nerve signals for muscular action.
A world-class example of using the absurd, of "making the familiar strange, and then the strange familiar"
(IBM patent application and Synectics quoted above)