A new sect may have been formed to capture the "whispers" in the woods for @ironwood.bsky.social's Pacific Drive expansion👁️🗨️
Thanks to the vancouver indie camp members, and uh sorry to the campers across the lake. ⛺
*Use headphones for a binaural experience
🔥 Introducing VR Forever 🔥
Coming to Steam from September 18th to 23rd
VR dedicated Steam Event
- Over 130 participating games
- Deep discounts
- New demos
- Announcements
- Surprise launches
Plus the first-ever VR Forever Awards 🏆
- 30 games
- 6 categories
- 8 industry judges
More info 🧵👇
So soothing 😌
Woodsy Words
Chillin’ in the woods with Wordbound #vr #augmentedreality #gamedev #indiedev #gaming
😴 LuciEntry: Towards Understanding the Design of Lucid Dream Induction
Po-Yao (Cosmos) Wang et al.
doi.org/10.1145/3715...
🤖 ELLMA-T: an Embodied LLM-agent for Supporting English Language Learning in Social VR
Mengxu Pan, Alexandra Kitson, Hongyu Wan, Mirjana Prpa
doi.org/10.1145/3715...
Looking forward to an exciting week at the #DIS2025 Conference in Madeira, Portugal. @acm-dis.bsky.social
Check out the amazing work from some talented students and collaborators 👇
Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference #dis2025 are now online!
dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...
@acm-dis.bsky.social
Although the deadline has passed... if you're still interested in joining our workshop at #DIS2025, we still have a few spots left! Feel free to DM or submit directly through our website spiritedhci.org/dis2025works...
💡 New paper from TECI Lab @siatsfu.bsky.social at #IDC2025 this week!
Beyond the Algorithm: Speculative Approaches to Critical AI Literacies with Diverse Youth doi.org/10.1145/3713...
Sadhbh Kenny, Alissa Antle, Gillian Russell, Annemiek Veldhuis
#AI #YouthEmpowerment #CriticalLiteracy
Going to #DIS2025? Consider submitting to our workshop!
Deadline June 5 (AoE)
@spiritedcollective.bsky.social
ALOE 🌵
![Wordbound - Mixed Reality Puzzle Game (feat. The Pineapple Guy 🍍😎) [Official Teaser]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kl47oz5nb3btggno7amypa7d/bafkreieiz6pszi34kyl4qanxw2hqfdxreoebrag46bnfk4qi5xokid5beu)
Wordbound is a mixed reality puzzle game where the world is made of words! youtu.be/7P-21uGiyV0 #VR #AR #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev
🌊 Dive into the Ocean of Religious and Spiritual Design Research at #DIS2025! 🌊
👉 Submit your short papers or artworks (max 4 pages) by June 5, 2025
All R/S beliefs (including none) are welcome.
🔗 Learn more & submit: spiritedhci.org/dis2025works...
#HCI #Design #HCIResearch #SPIRITED
This video contains clues to a puzzle. The first three people to solve the puzzle will receive a free copy of the game at launch.
🍍➡️🥧 How to turn a pineapple into an apple pie. #VR #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #gaming
Join us this Thursday (5/15/25) to hear from @ebuie.bsky.social at our monthly SPIRITED Collective meeting for her talkn on transcendent user experiences.
📩 If you'd like to join our growing community, please send an email to spirited.hci@gmail.com for the meeting invite!
TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS:
The first ever Creature Feature will include updates, announcements, and shenanigans from all Creature label studios. You will see brand new game announcements, new content for some of your favorite games, and a few surprises along the way.
✨ 9AM PST on May 19th on IGN. ✨
And now… #chi2026 will be in Barcelona! Nuria and Ayman will be the general chairs. CHI2026 will be the start of a massivley shaken up new way that CHI will create more space for engagement chi2026.acm.org - including a new student mentoring programme to support more students in the future.
Excited to soon share 3 papers showcasing interdisciplinary research at #chi2024
🧠 🔍 opportunities for mental health (cognitive reappraisal) and digital tech -Slovak, Antle
🥽 🎭 co-designing VR supports for emotion regulation w/teens -TECI Lab team
😴 😶🌫️ altCHI: virtual dream reliving w/AI -Liu & team
