Karl (Llamahat)

Starting off with anthropology is such a genius move that aids people in the journey towards understanding optimisation.

We optimise as an outward display of care for someone else's experience. I feel like there should be some studies done on asynchronous avatar representation 🤔

Transiting through Melbourne to Canberra for ICMI.

More travel, this time to a conference in Australia! Again to talk about the research possibilities of VR.

This one is going to be a rather long journey but hopefully it goes well.

#academia #academicsky #virtualreality #vr

Happy Birthday 🎂🎉

Ok this one I need to listen to/watch. Amazing people running the show at QCC <3

ID: A graphic with a green background and white text. It reads: 'New Episode Alert! //19. AI for D&D, Reasonable Adjustments, and Gaming with a (Limb) Difference: Toby's Story // Out now // Listen wherever you get your podcasts'. In the middle of the screen is the show logo and Spotify code.

"There's a lot of people when I was young who told me there were a lot of things I could not be; I'd like to think I've proven them wrong."

A new episode of HEnabled is out! Listen now: linktr.ee/HEnabled

ID and info below.

#AcademicSky #HE #University #Disability #University #DisabilityPodcast

@glitchyfox.bsky.social this what you were wanting ages ago?

Thankyou to all those who helped on hosting and welcoming the researchers in. Wonderful to see how it tied everything together.

This has been a long time in the making, go and show the people at @newscientist.com some love for their amazing work making science more accessible.

Main thing for me is looking at how conversations from, and how I can create worlds to help people connect. Hopefully (if ethics passes me 😬) I should be able to investigate different world characteristics and world design aspects and how they affect users ability to converse.

Thankyou to all those who helped on hosting and welcoming the researchers in. Wonderful to see how it tied everything together.

This has been a long time in the making, go and show the people at @newscientist.com some love for their amazing work making science more accessible.

I really do hope you find that passion again because you have made some incredible worlds with so much detail and style in the texture work.

I remember back when I too was first learning about stuff, it was really fun to fail fail and then succeeded. Something that Mick Gordon said about making music is that you need to keep changing the process that you use to make things, don't stay in the same routine to make things or it gets stale.

I think it depends on a case by case basis. I find it is more how much of your passion you turn into a career, it is really difficult to find that line but you can make it work. My career as a researcher is adjacent to my career as a world builder. There is only so much crossover between the two.

GUESS WHAT IT IS!!
Kick Lobotomy is happening once again!
On saturday 20th of September.
We're starting off nice and easy with some Hardstyle, ramping up to Rawstyle, then cranking it up with J-Core & Speedcore, into full on KRACH!

You dont wanna miss this lineup!!

#vrcmusicevent #Vrchat #VRCRave

Travel back from conference number 2 in as many weeks for a 7 hour stay at the house before heading back out again to catch a flight...holiday finally!

🌟 That’s a wrap on iGGi Con 2025! 🌟

Two incredible days of talks, panels, workshops, and keynotes celebrating research and innovation in games, AI, and interactive media.

💚 Huge thanks to our speakers, organisers, and attendees for making this year’s conference a success!

#iGGiCon #GamesResearch

I don’t know how our club moderators smelled the frame time spike here, but they’re very real, and will chase you down on an e-scooter 😭

#VRChat

This is so cool, the idea is so meta (not the corporation).

Possible I can have a look at it once I'm back from travels. What is currently wrong with it?

Oh boy, got the textures hooked up

Id rather have 100 non-shadow lights than 3 shadow ones.

If 99% of people won't notice the loss in quality for optimisation, then it should be done. With every industry there are people who will notice when optimisation gives a worse result, but those are the people that would understand why it was taken too, and probably could help make it better too.

Not much to be seen visually in terms of upgrades except some fog and new textures. But there is a fair amount under the hood that has changed :)

I also want to try mid side encoding for control on width

Yep that's the one, still need to screw about with it. Have been wanting to do so since before it came out.

There is an OBS plugin out there to do the splitting on OBSs side so that you can bring it in as a 5.1 where you have LR, BassL,BassR,HighL,HighR might be useful.

It was the Bialogue conference, part of the Semantics and Dialogue series.

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course slides for "Fast as Hell: idTech8 Global Illumination” talk by @idsoftwaretiago.bsky.social from @idsoftware.bsky.social
are now online
advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

Back travelling for another conference talking about social VR!

#academia #travel #conference #VR