Marius Varga
mariusv.bsky.social
Marius Varga
@mariusv.bsky.social
Player experience researcher, crafting XR experiences and Games, Co-design, Immersive Data Visualisation.
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📢 Great to see Professor Sheena Asthana, Director of the Centre for Health Technology, on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze!

Sheena joined the discussion on 'What is the ethical purpose of the NHS?'

🎧 Listen to the episode on BBC Sounds: lnkd.in/eNzYqASp

#BBC #CHT #CentreforHealthTechnology #UOP
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April 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This was a great opportunity to connect, thank you #CHT for organise it.
Great brainstorming from today’s ’The Future of Applied Healthcare Research in the Digital Age’ - a #CHT & #CPCRH joint event. Thanks to all for attending and sharing their ideas for future bids. @plymuni.bsky.social #DigitalHealthcare
March 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Amazing evening last night at Real Ideas Market Hall attending the premiere for Precipita - A Journey of Water, an Immersive short movie projected on the famous dome and narrated by the talented Victoria Graham. A big thank you to Adela Hawley and Different View for being such amazing hosts.
March 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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We are looking forward to attending Imagination Unleashed 2025 next week! Run by Screen Cornwall, this event is where tech and creativity come together to solve problems and deliver great entertainment!

Hope to see you there!
#ImaginationUnleashed #TechAndCreativity #Innovation #Cornwall #CreaTech
February 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Just came out of the oven...
January 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Final adjustments to a procedural world created for the second workshop of the EMERGENCE - Glider project - www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/cen....
#unreal #gamedev #PCG #codesign #frailty
January 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Ready for an evaluation session at National Marine Aquarium Plymouth for Underwater and Social Games for the ICONIC project. #co-design #gamedev #Godot
January 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Intensive 3 week bootcamp designed for professionals who are new to Unreal Engine. Typically, there's no public access to this but Epic decided to open it to the general public until the 15th of January 2025, at no cost. dev.epicgames.com/community/le... . Good luck 😊! #unreal #ue5 #gamedev
Unreal Fellowship: Games | Talks and demos
The Unreal Fellowship: Games will focus entirely on building games in UE. If you already work on video games or you want to start your journey and you’r...
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December 10, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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Curious about what our participants think of the ICONIC Project?
Watch our stakeholder testimony video to discover the positive impact our project is making in the local communities we serve.
youtu.be/QH0SzKMTUnc
Testimonies from ICONIC Project Stakeholders
YouTube video by University of Plymouth
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December 3, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Amazing day today, being part of an ideation session with the second year students from The Cornwall College Group. It had @iconic-uop.bsky.social Social Game at the core which was developed in @Godot. Students explored various features to improve playability/engagement. #gamedev #Godot #ideation
December 2, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Final testing for the Glide project in preparation for Workshop 1. I am looking forward to it 😁 . If you want to know more about game tech being used to combat Frailty check out the link: www.emergencerobotics.net/trailblazer-.... @sgaudl.bsky.social #gamedev #Frailty #ue5 #RaspberryPi
November 29, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Writing papers is hard work, my "assistant" decided to take a break 😊. #research #gamedev #dogs
November 26, 2024 at 1:52 PM
🌍🎉 I’m excited to be part of the Global XR Design Challenge! 🎉🌍
Joining designers from around the world to learn new XR skills, connect with a great community, and share ideas on the future of AR and VR design.

#XRDesignChallenge #ImmersiveDesign #FutureOfXR #DesignCommunity
November 25, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Long day but rewarding at the ICONIC evaluation workshop. Participants gave some great feedback and suggestions for all 4 technologies (XR, Social Games, Underwater and Phone AI). Big thank you to all especially my colleagues who made this happen Oksana Hagen, Rory Baxter, Lauren Tenn and Lenan.
November 18, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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A new short piece by me and Silvia Carderelli-Gronau is in the new ACM INTERACTIONS issue as part of the MAKING/BREAKING section.

tinyurl.com/hciatgu2401

I am super excited and happy to see this published and it is still super important to me
Sonic Dancer: A Low-Cost, Sound-Based Device to Explore Shared Movement and Dance Through Generative...
  How can we feel the presence of and connection to others in a shared space if they can join remotely but cannot be physically present? For lectures, meetings, and talking with friends,...
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January 15, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Great day for the ICONIC underwater workshop at National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth. The room is buzzing the sun is shining and coffee is flowing. #nma ICONIC (Intergenerational Co-design of Novel Technologies in Coastal Communities) #VR #co-design
January 10, 2024 at 3:25 PM
December 11, 2023 at 8:17 PM
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BREAKING: Valve just launched a free official Steam Link app on the Quest Store that can stream SteamVR games from your PC:

www.uploadvr.com/valve-steam-...
Valve Launches Steam Link PC VR Streaming App For Quest
BREAKING: Valve just launched a free official Steam Link app on the Quest Store that can stream SteamVR games from your PC.
www.uploadvr.com
November 30, 2023 at 6:35 PM