melslater.bsky.social
melslater.bsky.social
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Here is our new paper from 18 members of #EMRN (metaverse-research-network.info) : a multidisciplinary take on the metaverse—covering law, networking/distributed systems, AI, opportunities, challenges & social implications. doi.org/10.3389/frvi...
October 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The @GuestXR project is running a final day of events in Brussels on 28th November, 2025.
It would be excellent if you could attend.
Please see the details on:
guestxr.eu/final-event/
GuestXR - Final event
The GuestXR Final Event will present the most significant innovations, developments, and outcomes achieved within the GuestXR project.
guestxr.eu
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
September 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Metaverse for the Good Alicante 11-12/6 updated web page:
catedrametaverso.ua.es/ii-internati...
* deadline 25/4
* two keynotes swapped days
* pre-registration docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS “TOWARDS A RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE METAVERSE”
catedrametaverso.ua.es
April 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A Metaverse for the Good 2nd conference - Alicante, Spain 11-12th June, following the enjoyable and productive 2024 one in Barcelona. This provisional program, will be updated to give the deadline as 25/4 (to avoid holiday issues). Hope to see you in Alicante!
catedrametaverso.ua.es/ii-internati...
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS “TOWARDS A RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE METAVERSE”
catedrametaverso.ua.es
April 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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The #EU-funded environMENTAL Project aims to reduce the impact of major environmental challenges on mental health. Made up of 24 partners, we are excited to join BlueSky and share our journey with you! Click here to see our recent research activities: mailchi.mp/b3e80b892761...

#HorizonEurope
January 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Here is a comparison of 360 #VR video and 2D video in the context of documentary journalism. www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
First author is Emma Award winner Raúl Gallego Abellan.
Frontiers | Immersive documentary journalism: exploring the impact of 360° virtual reality compared with a 2D screen display on the responses of people toward undocumented young migrants to Spain
The term ‘MENA’ refers to ‘Menores Extranjeros No Acompañados’ (‘unaccompanied foreign minors’) who are child immigrants to Spain who entered alone without l...
www.frontiersin.org
December 11, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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I'm looking forward to speaking at "MindXR - Shaping the Future of Mental Health Care", which takes place

📆 June 25-27, 2025, in📍Berlin

MindXR aims to bridge fundamental, clinical & #HCI research, & 📣abstract submission is now open

🔗 mindxr.info

(the organizers don't seem to be on bsky, yet)
Mind XR Conference
Discover the exciting possibilities of Virtual Reality in mental health at MindXR conference. Meet experts from psychology, psychiatry & technology.
mindxr.info
November 29, 2024 at 10:09 AM
#PyMC the probabilistic system in Python is wonderful for Bayesian analysis. I intend to use it from now on for analysis of data from our #VR #experiments.
November 23, 2024 at 4:56 PM
I spent the day #programming and learning together with an #AI #LLM who was polite and helpful and sometimes gracefully incorrect. By the end of the day I felt a strange invisible #presence with me.
November 20, 2024 at 7:12 AM
At www.event-lab.org, we are studying how to reduce stress of social media content moderators (CM). If you are now or have been a CM and are interested in participating, contact rmontsjo@gmail.com. Note that we will not ask you to break your job’s confidentiality.
Event Lab
event-lab.org
October 4, 2024 at 2:24 PM
I was very happy to meet my first ever PhD student again after several decades -Tony Tsung-Yueh Lin. Topic link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 2, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Tue Event Lab, Institute of Neuroscience University of Barcelona is starting a new European Research Council Proof of Concept grant 1/24. We are looking for postdocs in Virtual Reality with strong Unity experience. Further details on euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/160753
October 29, 2023 at 11:27 AM
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New paper from our lab about change blindness and body representation in virtual reality.
"Imperceptible Body Transformation in Virtual Reality"#VRcademicSky

www.cell.com/iscience/pdf...
October 24, 2023 at 7:44 PM
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Anyone interested can watch my talk "Between Two Realities - Ethical Pitfalls in Virtual Environments" I gave at the VRSummit at Uni Bochum on YouTube. Feedback is appreciated!
#VRcademicSky
Between Two Realities - Ethical Pitfalls in Virtual Environments
Talk, I gave at the VRSummit 2023 at RUB Bochum
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2023 at 9:05 AM
It's 50 years since the death of Pablo Picasso. For the Global Impact Summit in Malaga we brought together two of the most creative minds of the 20C, Picasso and the founder of modern neuroscience Santiago Ramon y Cajal - in a virtual reality cafe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEC1...
October 9, 2023 at 4:00 PM
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One more VR illusion explained!

#vrcademicsky
Phantom touch illusion, an unexpected phenomenological effect of tactile gating in the absence of ta...
Scientific Reports - Phantom touch illusion, an unexpected phenomenological effect of tactile gating in the absence of tactile stimulation
www.nature.com
September 21, 2023 at 8:58 PM