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Matt Gottsacker
@mott-lab.bsky.social
PhD candidate @SREAL @University of Central Florida | mad scientist |
HCI and AR/VR research :: cross-reality interactions and transitions

https://mattgottsacker.space/
the teenage engineering choir dolls are credited for some of the music in the movie Elio. fun and cool!

teenage.engineering/products/choir
choir
a celebration of the project that started it all, teenage engineering choir comes alive in your home to serenade you with choral classics and to perform your own original compositions. an ensemble of ...
teenage.engineering
September 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
it's a beautiful day ... to spend entirely in a windowless lab working on a #chi2026 paper submission
September 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
me reviewing research papers with a bunch of LLM-generated text
August 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"a visionary new game"

small study (n=10) but interesting idea: using VR to improve eyesight.

I wonder how the display's fixed focal length (i.e. vergeance-accomodation conflict) might affect this.

www.ign.com/articles/thi...
This VR Game Developed by Japanese Scientists Could Improve Your Eyesight - IGN
With smartphones, game consoles and computers, it’s easy to rack up screen time these days. Of course, this isn’t great for your eyes, as anyone who has suffered an eyestrain hangover after spending h...
www.ign.com
May 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A couple months late here, but I thought I would share some of my recent research I presented at IEEE ISMAR exploring spatial cognitive residue ~the lingering memory of a virtual space~ and how different transitions between VR environments can help clear users' minds. 🚀

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January 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
why spend 30 minutes updating your CV when you can spend an entire afternoon writing code to automate the updating of your CV
December 30, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Embodied Cognition and the Magical Future of Interaction Design. David Kirsh. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
December 15, 2024 at 3:24 AM
nice archive! I grabbed a few:

- Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology
- From Geometry to Behavior: An Introduction to Spatial Cognition
- Embodying Design: An Applied Science of Radical Embodied Cognition
MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here:

archive.org/details/mit_...
December 1, 2024 at 4:10 PM
hello bluesky. I am PhD Candidate at the Synthetic Reality Lab (SREAL) at the University of Central Florida --- though I am currently based in NYC and also working as a research intern with the JPMorganChase Global Technology Applied Research AR/VR group.
November 30, 2024 at 1:14 AM