Over the last two years we have seen an acceleration on AI, but if AI is going to enable humans in their day to day tasks, it most probably will be via XR. The issue then is if a selection has real-world consequences, we will need great precision to interact.

At least they’re being honest, right?

It lights my day whenever I see new research enabled by the easiness of use of the @msftresearch.bsky.social #RocketboxAvatars

The XR Research Digest@xrdigest.bsky.social · last yr.

Using VR to assess executive functions: New research established normative data for the Nesplora Ice Cream test (n=419), identifying three factors—planning, learning and flexibility—with age-related patterns but no gender differences. doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Come work with Teresa Hirzle and me in a fully-funded PhD fellowship on extended reality and behavior change. The full add is at employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16..., the application deadline is May 12th, and we will both be at #chi2025 to discuss. If you are not, feel free to reach out in other ways.

PhD fellowship in extended Reality for Behaviour Change at The Pioneer Centre for AI

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»Researchers Catalog 170+ Text Input Techniques to Improve Typing in XR« https://www.roadtovr... #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures

Very cool to have the work on XR Text Input reach broader in Road2VR www.roadtovr.com/xr-text-trov... Thanks @ben.roadtovr.com for inviting Max for a piece. Making VR research a general public interest.

Researchers Catalog 170+ Text Input Techniques to Improve Typing in XR

Efficient text entry without an actual keyboard remains an industry-wide challenge for unlocking productivity use-cases in XR headsets. Researchers have created a comprehensive catalog of existing tex...

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Researchers Catalog 170+ Text Input Techniques to Improve Typing in XR Efficient text entry witho... https://www.roadtovr.com/xr-text-trove-vr-ar-text-input-typing-technique-catalog-max-di-luca/ #Guest #Articles #News #XR #Industry #News Event Attributes

Just ported all my Twitter/X posts to BlueSky with @en.blueark.app for $6. It’s a small action, @bsky.app is open for everybody to train their AIs. Now everyone can use the historic of my human created content. And not only xAI. Data dignity they say…

We have a new position for someone with a strong computer science VR background to work on the PRESENCE project. This would be at the Event Lab, Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona. If you are interested, you must apply through this website: lnkd.in/d6QYQKYA #VRcademicSky

Can AR-guided tunnels improve motor precision? New research tested HoloLens 2 hand-tracking with 3D holographic trajectories, showing improved performance and positive clinician acceptance. doi.org/10.1007/s100...

Interested in a Visualization/HCI PhD in France? Come join us. We have 2 positions and will accept dual-career couples as well: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41... jobs.inria.fr/public/class...

Ego4D is an incredible anthropological dataset. With over 3600 hours of videos (5 months of human activities) in first person view with written narrations from all over the world ego4d-data.org/fig1.html. (Always reminds me of this movie by #IsabelCoixet youtu.be/bYI3A6WLMBU)

Spain in a day - Tráiler

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I love how well the work on bringing avatars to video conferences as an alternative to camera on/off is aging. Check out our work on avatars via virtual cameras on regular conferences on our paper AllTogether. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

AllTogether: Effect of Avatars in Mixed-Modality Conferencing Environments - Microsoft Research

We developed AllTogether, a system that provides voice-only participants with the option to be represented by an avatar in a call with other video participants. We propose avatars as a way to expand t...

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UploadVR@uploadvr.com · last yr.

Quest's Horizon OS v76 PTC lets you use your Meta Avatar as a virtual webcam in video calling apps. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/quest-v76-pt...

From the knowledge acquired during the pandemic. We can all agree that a policy of letting the virus roam through the flocks will 1) limit containing the spread and 2) increase mutations… and that can end badly. For birds and humans. But hey, I am not the secretary of health. So what do I know?

Welcome to the family of significant VR researchers @pedrolopes.org!! I hear the banquet this year was splendid :)

Pedro Lopes@pedrolopes.org · last yr.

Thanks IEEE VGTC and IEEE VR for this kind "IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Significant New Researcher" award. Thanks #IEEEVR2025 for an incredible banquet where I got to chance to say a few words and thank everyone for this (my slides for the banquet speech: lab.plopes.org/published/20...) 1/5

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡 Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

@herrison2000.bsky.social · last yr.

About to talk to medical affairs colleagues, with the news that Bluesky is carrying more posts about new journal publications than X #bluesky #altmetrics #x #xparrot

Ever wondered why is so hard to write in VR/XR? We too 😅. Check this new work to appear in ACM CHI: xrtexttrove.github.io We (@arpitbhatia.bsky.social et al) analyzed 176 papers and text entry techniques inside XR and found that:

Ok! I have been using bluesky now for a bit. Unlike Mastodon, I really think it’s properly good and with enough critical mass and I am finally moving out of X. Moving forward: find me at @twimar.bsky.social

Catch up with @ejgonz.bsky.social at @sxsw.com Innovation Awards 🏆. He will be presenting our example of Augmented Object Intelligence XR-objects.github.io He also rebumped the opensource github project now running Gemini Flash2. Very smooth 👍

Doğa Doğan@dogadogan.bsky.social · 2y ago

Stoked that 𝐗𝐑-𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 - our "Augmented Object Intelligence" concept from UIST'24 - was selected as a 2025 @SXSW.com 🏆 Innovation Awards Finalist!🤩 www.sxsw.com/interactive/... @twimar.bsky.social @ejgonz.bsky.social @googlesearch.bsky.social @acm-sigchi.bsky.social 🎉

EmBARDiment explores: - how much we can simplify LLM prompts if the AI agent shares context and content understanding with the user (hint: a lot!). - highly homogeneous vs heterogeneous content. - long vs short contextual memory.

Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco@twimar.bsky.social · last yr.

Next week at #IEEEVR we present “EmBARDiment: an Embodied AI Agent for Productivity in XR" by @riccardobovo.bsky.social et al. showing how powerful AI agents can be when they are aware of the content around us, driven by contextual inputs like gaze. Web: embardiment.github.io Code: coming soon

EmBARDiment explores: - how much we can simplify LLM prompts if the AI agent shares context and content understanding with the user (hint: a lot!). - highly homogeneous vs heterogeneous content. - Long vs short contextual memory.

Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco@twimar.bsky.social · last yr.

At @IEEEVR we present “EmBARDiment: an Embodied AI Agent for Productivity in XR" by @riccardobovoHCI et al. showing how powerful AI agents can be when they are aware of the content around us, driven by contextual inputs like gaze. Web: http://embardiment.github.io Code: soon

At @IEEEVR we present “EmBARDiment: an Embodied AI Agent for Productivity in XR" by @riccardobovoHCI et al. showing how powerful AI agents can be when they are aware of the content around us, driven by contextual inputs like gaze. Web: http://embardiment.github.io Code: soon

Next week at #IEEEVR we present “EmBARDiment: an Embodied AI Agent for Productivity in XR" by @riccardobovo.bsky.social et al. showing how powerful AI agents can be when they are aware of the content around us, driven by contextual inputs like gaze. Web: embardiment.github.io Code: coming soon

Super proud of our collaboration with academia on advancing inputs for XR receiving a recognition by @acm-sigchi.bsky.social. 🙌 @ejgonz.bsky.social, @kenpfeuffer.bsky.social, @hansgellersen.bsky.social, Hasti, Karan, Max, Andrea

ACM SIGCHI@acm-sigchi.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 We're delighted to announce the recipients of the 2025 ACM SIGCHI Awards! Congratulations to these incredible awardees!

Stoked that 𝐗𝐑-𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 - our "Augmented Object Intelligence" concept from UIST'24 - was selected as a 2025 @SXSW.com 🏆 Innovation Awards Finalist!🤩 www.sxsw.com/interactive/... @twimar.bsky.social @ejgonz.bsky.social @googlesearch.bsky.social @acm-sigchi.bsky.social 🎉

2025 SXSW Innovation Awards Finalists Announced

50+ finalists provide a glimpse of the future in 11 different categories ranging from Artificial Intelligence to Health & Biotech to Community Empowerment.

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Cool points (pun intended) Would like to see the interactivity enabled by an LLM that helps describe the context

Boyang Zhou@boyzhou.bsky.social · 2y ago

Gaussian splatting might really transform journalism in cases where you want to cover the “whole image” of what happened. Not sure if it’s great for storytelling, though. Here are my reasons: rd.nytimes.com/projects/gau...

I guess sometimes when we migrate we bring a baggage too.. when @davledo.bsky.social and @fbrudy.bsky.social invited me to talk at @autodeskresearch.bsky.social he prepared a super cute visual summary that deserves porting ;) challenges stand stronger now that we kind of tackled the OS in the room 🐘

David Ledo@davledo.bsky.social · 2y ago

The mass migration from Twitter makes me reflect on the nomadic nature of the internet and how we romanticize moments in those platforms. When you use one think about how one day you might be missing it. I can think of so many spaces I was a part of What were some online spaces you occupied?

If you are looking for a beautiful book to start 2025: “Anaximander” by Carlo Rovelli. The book won the Lewis Thomas Prize on scientific writing last year. It’s wonderfully written. Audiobook was great for car rides with the kids. Happy 2025 everyone!

If you are looking for a beautiful book to start 2025: “Anaximander” by Carlo Rovelli. The book won the Lewis Thomas Prize on scientific writing last year. It’s wonderfully written. Audiobook was great for car rides with the kids. Happy 2025 everyone!

I am now also in bluesky! @twimar.bsky.social