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Marius Varga

@mariusv.bsky.social
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Player experience researcher, crafting XR experiences and Games, Co-design, Immersive Data Visualisation.

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Plymouth's Centre for Health Technology @plymouthcht.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Join us June 30th at @plymuni.bsky.social Jumping Janners is heading to the Teaching & Learning Showcase 2026 👇 An interactive parkour game blending digital play + real-world movement 🏃‍♂️ Built with the community + designed for inclusion. Come try it out + share feedback! @mariusv.bsky.social
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Plymouth's Centre for Health Technology @plymouthcht.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
📅 March at CHT PhD opportunity in AI + dementia care, BRIDGING VR project for neurodiversity, NHS education study and Prof Ray Jones presenting in Spain. A strong start across research, collaboration and impact. 🔗 Read more here 👉 shorturl.at/5uvOm #CHT #DigitalHealth
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📅 CHT March Wrap up — Research, collaboration and new opportunities March has been a strong start to the year for Plymouth's Centre for Health Technology, with activity spanning research… | Plymou...
📅 CHT March Wrap up — Research, collaboration and new opportunities March has been a strong start to the year for Plymouth's Centre for Health Technology, with activity spanning research, collaboratio...
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Plymouth's Centre for Health Technology @plymouthcht.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
📢 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
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This was a great opportunity to connect, thank you #CHT for organise it.
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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.
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The ICONIC Project @iconic-uop.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Just came out of the oven...
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Ready for an evaluation session at National Marine Aquarium Plymouth for Underwater and Social Games for the ICONIC project. #co-design #gamedev #Godot
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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
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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...
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The ICONIC Project @iconic-uop.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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
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Testimonies from ICONIC Project Stakeholders
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Writing papers is hard work, my "assistant" decided to take a break 😊. #research #gamedev #dogs
Dog sleeping on a bed, partially covered by a blanket.
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🌍🎉 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
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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.
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
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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...
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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
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
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Sonic Dancer: A Low-Cost, Sound-Based Device to Explore Shared Movement and Dance Through Generative...
  How can we feel the presence of and connection to others in a shared space if they can join remotely but cannot be physically present? For lectures, meetings, and talking with friends,...
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
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
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
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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.
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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
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UploadVR @uploadvr.com · 30/11/2023
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-...
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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.
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