💥 Remember the viral Climball game? Now, get ready for 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬! 🏆🧗 Dynamic gameplay, fixed duration, perfect for competitions, and repeat play. Learn more: hubs.ly/Q02yd1xx0

#ValoMotion #ValoClimb #ClimballLegends

Pre-print’s finally out:
SDT and HCI Games Research: Unfulfilled Promises and Unquestioned Paradigms

I hope you find the paper thought-provoking.

Collab with april April Tyack. I miss her every day

arxiv.org/abs/2405.12639

Want a chance to win a £50 voucher by playing video games after work? Then take part in Jon Mella's study exploring how gaming can influences our ability to unwind! You will be contributing to games research & provided with advice about gaming. Sign-up: sites.google.com/view/stressque…

Socialising at #CHI2024 , #XR style 🥷

holokit.io

👀 some work from 🇫🇮 at #CHI2024
💃 #VirtualReality Dance, Perttu Hämäläinen: aalto.fi/en/news/resear…
🏅 Simulating Touchscreen Typing via Computational Rationality, Antti Oulasvirta: aalto.fi/en/news/teachi…
🤖 AI placebo effect, Robin Welsch: aalto.fi/en/news/just-b…
cc Aalto Techsperts

Do you want to get paid to study emotions in video games and get a PhD whilst doing it? Come study with me in London! Pls retweet and SHARE WIDELY docs.gre.ac.uk/rep/communicat…

Make games & get paid!🚀 We launched #HypeHype creator monetisation with engagement-based payouts, in-game purchases and a $100,000 USD hit game competition!🥳

Start earning: hypehype.com

#games #mobilegames #gamedev #indiedev #gamejam #gaming HypeHype Inc.

Excellent data source for social science research as well.

'The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated.'

We believe ARVR is among the most underrated markets today. Most people fixate on past (and current) missteps, leading to assumptions that are simply wrong.

With ~30m Meta Quest headsets sold and a favorable industry outlook, we think the time is now. ⬇️

UE 5.4 is out and the Learning Agents plugin got a bunch of updates!

One of the coolest new features is 'Structured Observations and Actions' - which provides a powerful and flexible way of describing the inputs and outputs of a Neural Network.

dev.epicgames.com/community/lear…

Guest Lecture: Path Tracing Technology in Alan Wake 2, Aalto University lecture hall T1, Konemiehentie 2, Espoo, Wed 22 May, 12:15-14:00 (hosted by Aalto's graphics professor and ex. Remedian Jaakko Lehtinen)

Build what you need and use what you build. This is a core philosophy of my research. It shifts the focus away from publishing “papers” to what really matters — impact. This thread unpacks why I think this is a successful approach to science. 1/10 Or see:
perceiving-systems.blog/en/post/build-…

Returning from an experimental ~2 week detox from the internet. Main takeaway is that I didn't realize how unsettled the mind can get when over-stimulating on problems/information (like a stirred liquid), and ~2 weeks is enough to settle into a lot more zen state.

I'm struck by

At #CHI2024 , we try to do justice to #crowdsourcing by answering this question:

How does GPT-4's labeling ability compare to that of a realistic, well-executed MTurk *pipeline*?

Led by Steven He@CHI2024, we publish our love letter to crowdsourcing: arxiv.org/abs/2402.16795 #LLM 1/🧵

An awesome speculative fiction piece about a possible future trajectory of things like foundation models, prompt engineering, and finetuning. qntm.org/mmacevedo

Lots of algorithms online for converting from rotation matrices to quaternions have unstable gradients when transcribed to PyTorch.

This is the best I've found and seems both smooth and stable (from this article by Mike Day d3cw3dd2w32x2b.cloudfront.net/wp-content/upl…):

gist.github.com/orangeduck/e1d…