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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#VRSummit closing words by Christian Klaes and @fatresearchcat.bsky.social and the entire crew working hard behind the scenes - and an invitation for next year’s VRSummit. ✌️ 🥽 🧠 merci 🙏

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Finally, we have Sergi Bermúdez i Badia on Psychological Restoration in (virtual) nature #accessibility #VRSummit

Sergi Bermúdez i Badia on Psychological Restoration in nature and accessible virtual twins

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Trying to recruit more people to join Bluesky 😅 they’ve developed a toolbox to quickly build EEG classifiers (with different EEG systems and hardware). At least for prototyping this should lower the entry barrier to working with EEG.

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Have to add an extra skeet for the #cookieMonster 🍪

Eric Giessmann presenting his haptic interface for stop motion animation

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Eric Giessman screening highlights of his VR movies and sharing insights into his creative process. “Stop-Motion Meets 3D Animation” #VRSummit

Eric Giessman discussing his autobiographic VR movie #CochlearImplant

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Michael Wiesing @vrneuroscience.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Finally, the one and only @oakannape.bsky.social is on stage to talk about medical XR @vrsummit.bsky.social

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Art Pilacinski @fatresearchcat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

@oakannape.bsky.social and others on an excellent panel about the road from the headset to the clinic @vrsummit.bsky.social

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ke Li from UniHH on dreaming with AI. #NeRF and #GaussianSplatting in VR.

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

How can we integrate #EEG in VR & what does it add? Corinna Weber “From Virtual Reality to Neural Reality” #snapDiscovery

Corinna Weber presenting their EEG and BCI toolbox

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

@melslater.bsky.social with a light post-lunch keynote on #consciousness research in VR. What’s veridical? (What’s just a blue sphere 🔵) #VRSummit

Mel Slater is joining remotely to discuss consciousness research in VR

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

How do you measure emotions? (and prevent reinventing the wheel in a research environment) Christof Lutteroth presents “EmoSense: Using Physiological Sensors to Measure Emotions in VR”

Christof Lutteroth illustrating the physiological impact of Dracula jumping out at you. Fight, Flight or Halloween 🎃

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

From LiDAR to volumetric capture and spatial storytelling, Martn Demmer presenting a range of use cases and stories #VRSummit

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Moving on to #biophilic immersion Lukas Hejtmanek “Simulating nature: When natural becomes virtual” LiDAR 🌳🌳🪾🏕️🌳 @hejtmy.bsky.social #VRSummit

Lukas Hejtmanek is presenting virtual forests based on LiDAR scans

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

How do we bring XR ideas and research to the market? Stefanie Broering on “Virtual reality in use: how immersive environments shape sensing and opportunity recognition in management and entrepreneurship” @ruhr-uni-bochum.de #VRSummit

Stefanie Broering on bringing VR to the market

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Markus Berger asks us what we’d do if we encountered an orb. 🔵❓”Beyond data visualisation”. @markusberger.bsky.social #VRSummit

Markus Berger and a blue orb he met at the street corner. What does it all mean?

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Alfiia Mustafina - biologist and Houdini artist - presenting her work on biological structures including this ant colony 🐜 #VRSummit

Alfiia Mustafina showing off her virtual ant colony

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Next up Roger Montserrat from the event lab “Psymulator: A psychologist's journey into VR design up”

Roger Montserrat presenting the Psymulator: A psychologist's journey into VR design

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#VRSummit day 2 Leon Kroczek is presenting his work on Virtual AI-Patients in Clinical Psychology. They’re working with real patients to create realistic AI personas. @leonkroczek.bsky.social @vrsummit.bsky.social

Leon Kroczek on why we should consider
simulating patients with mental health disorders using AI.

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

What are the rules of AR humour? When is it benign, when is it harmful? Abraham Mhaidli in “AR and Humor” and a giant cucumber head 🥒 #youHadToBeThere

Abraham Mhaidli presents a slide in how to create AR humour.

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sylvia Pan is presenting “Virtual Humans for Real Minds” and the opportunities for virtual humans across a range of health & wellbeing as well as training scenarios. #VRSummit

Sylvia Pan showing the various applications for virtual humans.

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Can we use VR to increase lucid dreaming? Martin Dresler on “Virtual reality and dreaming” (the answer is yes, a little, it depends) #Donders #sleeplab

Martin Dresler on using Virtual reality to increase instances of lucid dreaming

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Elisabeth André is giving the next keynote on “Virtual Agents, Real-World Skills: Social Coaching in Extended Reality” #VRSummit

Elisabeth André presenting Virtual Agents, Real-World Skills: Social Coaching in Extended Reality

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

back on after a “gute deutsche Küche” lunch. We have the winner of this weekend’s hackathon presenting their #halfLife alyx-inspired cable-detector

The hackathon winner presenting their cable-finding VR & electronics prototype

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

and the first keynote of the day: Marc Latoschik on Embodied Minds in the Age of a Metaverse, Social Media, and AI - #DescartesWasWrong #ProteusEffect #realism

Marc Latoschik on stage discussing congruence and plausibility in VR

Marc Latoschik showing the small differences between the latest gen avatars and video/real-life

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

(*we’re) Kathrin Gerling on inclusive VR and tailored solutions for VR acces #VRSummit

Kathrin Gerling on being tailored Solutions for VR Acces - here for wheelchair users

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Whelp, couldn’t find the poster I was looking for and were already back on. Jonathan Fiene on electronics presenting a bottle neck in rapid prototyping. #VRSummit

Johnathan Fiene of Bergsonne on rethinking electronics

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

next up we have the 1 minute poster pitches. A bit too fast to cover here 😅

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Out of the frying pan… Nele Borgert, Uni Bern, on #replicability issues in VR research #ThisIsFine

Nele Borgert on replicability in VR research

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Michael Wiesing @vrneuroscience.bsky.social kicking off the talk track addressing the #WildWest of VR research #VRSummit

Michael Wiesing presenting measurements that should be tracked in VR studies.

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Off to #Bochum for @vrsummit.bsky.social 2026 - @fatresearchcat.bsky.social, Johannes Peuling, Jonas Rose, Carmela Troncoso, and Sylvia Pan with the opening at the #Rotunde Bochum. #VRSummit

Art in stage at the Bochum Rotunde with a quick welcome 🙏

Sylvia Pan with a revisit of previous VR Summits and the Dagstuhl seminar on virtual bodies this summer.

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Followers by our first on #awe in care featuring Pr Teri Yarbrow and Dr José Ferrer Costa

Pr Teri Yarbrow and Dr José Ferrer Costa presenting their patient facing VR work in palliative care and inducing awe in VR

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

IVRHA Europe day 2 - from the beautiful national library of Latvia today and kicking off with a visit of deputy state secretary Aiga Balode and @bobfine.bsky.social on the main stage 🥽 🚀 #Riga #medicalXR

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Slight change of pace for the last presentation - Dr. Guna Semjonova on smart textiles and their role in biofeedback. #thatsawrap

Dr. Guna Semjonova’s presentation on creating real time feedback with smart textiles.

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Interesting point raised by Berkay Malgir and Dr. Senol Piskin on the discrepancy between optical motion capture accuracy compared to HMDs…

Berkay Malgir co-presenting with Dr. Senol Piskin

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

VR and hybrid simulations in interprofessional healthcare education, presented by the university of Turku team.

University of Turku presenting on VR and hybrid simulations in interprofessional healthcare education.

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yelena Khegay “rubbing salt in the wound” with respect to VR solutions reaching patients. A lack of clear reimbursement pathways…

Yelena Khegay presenting a map of Europe showing the (lack of) reimbursement pathways for medicalXR

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Marjaana Siivola on stage discussing usability / ease of use beyond kiosk mode.

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This entire session seems to be about grief processing and frustration 😆

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Very interesting presentation by Maria Petrakova and a bit of a painful reminder for everyone working in (medical) VR.

Why Most XR Healthcare Products Fail Before Technology Does - presented by Maria Petrakova on stage at IVRHA Europe

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’ll have to go back and try to find peoples profiles on here and start advertising for Bluesky again

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yannick Prié presenting work on social VR linking to secondary and tertiary prevention via teleclinics.

Yannick Prié on the role of social VR in healthcare

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dr Erin Blanchard and Dr. Michelle Brown presented an interesting study on the effects of stress inoculation on performance in a medical case vignette. A lot of participants reported no stress while their physiology was telling a different story😅

Erin Blanchard Co-presenting with Dr. Michelle Brown

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dr. Tatjana Pladere on using multifocal AR for Image-Guided Biopsy Navigation. Hoping to test the Lightspace headset tomorrow 🥽

Dr. Tatjana Pladere presenting a wide range is HMDs and near-eye displays.

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dr. Patrick Jolomba on Real-World Integration of VR-Based Training for Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Insertion and the opportunity for digital and virtual technologies to improve access to care in LMICs.

Dr. Patrick Jolomba highlighting the unequal access to care and how this may be improved using medical VR training

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So… no selfies of my own slides but next up…

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Oliver Kannape @oakannape.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

First speaker is Walter Greenleaf with an overview of the impact of AI, wearable sensors, and medical XR on healthcare.

Walter Greenleaf presenting online - on digital health tech and medicalXR

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