Day Two! ...Boot Camp...

Sounds ominous right? Boot Camp. Well it was, much different from our previous day. Anyway, we started off with our morning meeting, and then headed to a presentation room, where we learned all about eyes. Lots about eyes... and a small amount on lenses. :) And not only did we go through part of a slide show... but we took notes as well. For our hard work, we were surprised to be rewarded with.... Pizza! After our lovely lunch, we sorted out some of our numerous computer accounts (do we really need so many??) and headed off to start our training on the mobile eye tracker. It was very interesting to learn about and try out on ourselves. To wrap it up we got a question for "homework" as well as some reading to do. the question was: How thick is the retina? But what retina are we talking about here? A human retina? (approximately .2mm thick by the way) or some other species?  Two more days of Boot Camp to go!

This is a picture I found off Google showing the rods and cones contained in the retina:

Kinda cool eh?