Embodiment: 20 Years On: Beatrice de Gelder, Mavi Sanchez Vives, Olaf Blanke and I have put together a fantastic programme associated with the Biennale in Venice 21-22nd May, 2026.

Please see www.ub.edu/eventlab/Ven...

We hope you can join us!

European Metaverse Research Network (EMRN) Conference 2026:

This year we have joined with the Council of Europe @coe.int

"Human Rights in Immersive Realities (XR): Freedom of Expression, Justice, Children’s Rights and Well-Being"

Call for contributions:

rm.coe.int/call-for-pap...

Frontiers collection on 'A Metaverse for the Good: AI and the Metaverse' - see the call on www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

I used to do a blog post about our research on VR in the www.event-lab.org, but now I've started a Substack. I hope you find it useful.
melslater.substack.com?utm_campaign...

For those interested in physics-based character animation in VR, I can recommend tomorrow's talk by my colleague Joan Llobera where he will detail the contribution from the Artanim Foundation (www.artanim.ch) in the @presencexr.bsky.social Horizon Europe project. Sign up now!

The PRESENCE Project is making XR more realistic than ever! 🌐

Join our 10-week webinar series starting Jan 21 to explore: ✨ Holoportation 🤚 Haptics (Digital Touch) 👥 Intelligent Virtual Humans

Hear from experts like Mel Slater & Frank Steinicke.

Register: presence-xr.eu/presence-a-t...

#XR #Tech

GuestXR - Final event The GuestXR Final Event will present the most significant innovations, developments, and outcomes achieved within the GuestXR project.

A Machine Learning Agent for Social Harmony in Virtual Reality:
The GuestXR project final event will take place physically in Brussels 28th November, 2025. It will also be online.

Registration is open: guestxr.eu/final-event/

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...

GuestXR - Final event The GuestXR Final Event will present the most significant innovations, developments, and outcomes achieved within the GuestXR project.

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/

Thanks for inviting me, it was a wonderful conference.

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS “TOWARDS A RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE METAVERSE”

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”

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...

Welcome to environMENTAL! The environmental project investigates how some of the greatest environmental challenges affect mental health.

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

Frontiers | Embodied time travel in VR: from witnessing climate change to action for prevention This study explores the impact of embodied experiences in Virtual Reality (VR) on individuals’ attitudes and behavior towards climate change. A total of 41 p...

Climate change past, present and 2 possible futures in #VirtualReality #VR
@panxueni.bsky.social Justyna Swidrak, Yuke Pi
www.frontiersin.org/journals/vir...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q53i...

Interview with computer scientist Mel Slater on the future of virtual and augmented reality - ESMH Professor Mel Slater is a Distinguished Investigator at the University of Barcelona and the coordinator of the European Metaverse Research Network. He is

sciencemediahub.eu/2024/12/11/i...

"Emmy award"

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...

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.

Mind XR Conference Discover the exciting possibilities of Virtual Reality in mental health at MindXR conference. Meet experts from psychology, psychiatry & technology.

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)

#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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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...

Between Two Realities - Ethical Pitfalls in Virtual Environments Talk, I gave at the VRSummit 2023 at RUB Bochum

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

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...

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

One more VR illusion explained!

#vrcademicsky