Marius Varga

📢 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

Congratulations 🎊!!!

Congratulations Michael, well deserved! Great researcher and inspirational leader!

This was a great opportunity to connect, thank you #CHT for organise it.

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.

Thank you @plymouthcht.bsky.social for featuring my work, much appreciated 🙏. It's a privileged to be part of such an amazing and talented research group. The range of projects is a testament to the support and collaboration I received as part of this group and the @iconic-uop.bsky.social team.

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

Just came out of the oven...

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

Ready for an evaluation session at National Marine Aquarium Plymouth for Underwater and Social Games for the ICONIC project. #co-design #gamedev #Godot

Congrats!!!

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...

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

YouTube video by University of Plymouth Testimonies from ICONIC Project Stakeholders

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

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

Proud to be part of the ICONIC project looking after the XR and Social Games packages with the main goal to bring technology to the digitally excluded. I am lucky to be surrounded by a talented team and an exceptional group of co-designers that helped us make this project special. Thank you 🙏!

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

Dog sleeping on a bed, partially covered by a blanket.

Writing papers is hard work, my "assistant" decided to take a break 😊. #research #gamedev #dogs

🌍🎉 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

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.

Meta Reality Labs Research Shows Mind-bending AR Capabilities A project from researchers at Reality Labs, Meta’s XR division, shows a method for interacting with the real-world through augmented reality. I’m about as seasoned as they get when it comes to the...

www.roadtovr.com/meta-reality...

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

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

These minuscule pixels are poised to take augmented reality by storm LEDs and their organic counterparts are getting truly tiny. This could be the moment AR and VR companies have been waiting for.

www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/20/1...

We're good Matt, thank you 😊.

Amazing work Matt, like always!

www.psypost.org/2023/12/phan...

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.

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-...