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Nice piece that highlights what does feel like a deliberate choice by the Nobel committee www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Love this! ❤️

Really excited about this project and glad we can publicly talk about it now. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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I’ll try to post more about our #VR language learning applications later.

Do you know an undergraduate student who has shown outstanding potential in computing research? Now is the time to nominate them for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards. Due Oct 15: cra.org/crae/awards/...

Maybe not surprising considering my research area; but one of my favourite things is wearing headphones playing thunderstorm sounds when it rains 🥰

Effects included the natural emergence of a virtual watercooler effect, activity and social context-based VR platform switching, and a creation process highlighting how essential community-led collaboration is in creating authentic and transformative VR experiences.

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬
This exploratory study observed fascinating new interactions in using multi-platform social VR.

This in-depth development process helped to create a more complete and engaging transformative learning experience.

We used a community-led iterative design model to realize an authentic and engaging VR activity that could be embedded within a remote-synchronous workshop alongside more traditional learning activities such as videos, discussions, and presentations.

We interviewed and analyzed to understand the challenges around gender diversity in the trades and to create an engaging workshop to highlight them.

𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰
The focus of this research began with strong collaboration between @carletonu.bsky.social researchers and Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology’s diversity and inclusion, teaching and learning services, and journalism departments.

Our work with the
@immersivelrn.bsky.social 2024 conference is now online ( lnkd.in/gc2gW-dW )!

📖 "𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘜𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪-𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵-𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱" 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴: www.anthony-scavarelli.com/wp-content/u...

We have years of interesting talks tracing the modern era of #virtualreality #augmentedreality #webxr #haptics #immersivedesign #xr #spatialcomputing #cyberpunk and whatever else you want to call it at our YouTube page going back to 2015

Check it out
youtube.com/@vrtoxr?si=s...

I keep getting Reddit posts about how researchers are flocking to Bluesky. Hopefully, I can find more #VR and #HCI researchers to connect with here :)