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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Over the last two years we have seen an acceleration on AI, but if AI is going to enable humans in their day to day tasks, it most probably will be via XR. The issue then is if a selection has real-world consequences, we will need great precision to interact.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

At least they’re being honest, right?

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It lights my day whenever I see new research enabled by the easiness of use of the @msftresearch.bsky.social #RocketboxAvatars

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Kasper Hornbæk @khornbaek.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Come work with Teresa Hirzle and me in a fully-funded PhD fellowship on extended reality and behavior change. The full add is at employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16..., the application deadline is May 12th, and we will both be at #chi2025 to discuss. If you are not, feel free to reach out in other ways.

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PhD fellowship in extended Reality for Behaviour Change at The Pioneer Centre for AI

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Metaverse @metaverse.metaver.se · 08/04/2025

»Researchers Catalog 170+ Text Input Techniques to Improve Typing in XR« www.roadtovr... #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #XR #VR #MR #AR #BeyondPictures

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Android @android.activitypub.awakari.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2025

Researchers Catalog 170+ Text Input Techniques to Improve Typing in XR Efficient text entry witho... www.roadtovr.com/xr-text-trove-vr-a… #Guest #Articles #News #XR #Industry #News Event Attributes

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Just ported all my Twitter/X posts to BlueSky with @en.blueark.app for $6. It’s a small action, @bsky.app is open for everybody to train their AIs. Now everyone can use the historic of my human created content. And not only xAI. Data dignity they say…

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Michael Wiesing @vrneuroscience.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

We have a new position for someone with a strong computer science VR background to work on the PRESENCE project. This would be at the Event Lab, Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona. If you are interested, you must apply through this website: lnkd.in/d6QYQKYA #VRcademicSky

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The XR Research Digest @xrdigest.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Can AR-guided tunnels improve motor precision? New research tested HoloLens 2 hand-tracking with 3D holographic trajectories, showing improved performance and positive clinician acceptance. doi.org/10.1007/s100...

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Petra Isenberg @drpi.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Interested in a Visualization/HCI PhD in France? Come join us. We have 2 positions and will accept dual-career couples as well: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41... jobs.inria.fr/public/class...

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Inria hiring PhD position in Visualization and HCI in Gif-sur-Yvette, Île-de-France, France | LinkedIn

Posted 5:08:26 PM. 📢 We are recruiting two PhD candidates to work on data visualization for non-planar displays at…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Ego4D is an incredible anthropological dataset. With over 3600 hours of videos (5 months of human activities) in first person view with written narrations from all over the world ego4d-data.org/fig1.html. (Always reminds me of this movie by #IsabelCoixet youtu.be/bYI3A6WLMBU)

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I love how well the work on bringing avatars to video conferences as an alternative to camera on/off is aging. Check out our work on avatars via virtual cameras on regular conferences on our paper AllTogether. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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AllTogether: Effect of Avatars in Mixed-Modality Conferencing Environments - Microsoft Research

We developed AllTogether, a system that provides voice-only participants with the option to be represented by an avatar in a call with other video participants. We propose avatars as a way to expand t...

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

From the knowledge acquired during the pandemic. We can all agree that a policy of letting the virus roam through the flocks will 1) limit containing the spread and 2) increase mutations… and that can end badly. For birds and humans. But hey, I am not the secretary of health. So what do I know?

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Welcome to the family of significant VR researchers @pedrolopes.org!! I hear the banquet this year was splendid :)

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 13/03/2025

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡 Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Ever wondered why is so hard to write in VR/XR? We too 😅. Check this new work to appear in ACM CHI: xrtexttrove.github.io We (@arpitbhatia.bsky.social et al) analyzed 176 papers and text entry techniques inside XR and found that:

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Ok! I have been using bluesky now for a bit. Unlike Mastodon, I really think it’s properly good and with enough critical mass and I am finally moving out of X. Moving forward: find me at @twimar.bsky.social

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Catch up with @ejgonz.bsky.social at @sxsw.com Innovation Awards 🏆. He will be presenting our example of Augmented Object Intelligence XR-objects.github.io He also rebumped the opensource github project now running Gemini Flash2. Very smooth 👍

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Augmented Object Intelligence with XR-Objects

Augmented Object Intelligence with XR-Objects.

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

EmBARDiment explores: - how much we can simplify LLM prompts if the AI agent shares context and content understanding with the user (hint: a lot!). - highly homogeneous vs heterogeneous content. - long vs short contextual memory.

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

At @IEEEVR we present “EmBARDiment: an Embodied AI Agent for Productivity in XR" by @riccardobovoHCI et al. showing how powerful AI agents can be when they are aware of the content around us, driven by contextual inputs like gaze. Web: embardiment.github.io Code: soon

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Next week at #IEEEVR we present “EmBARDiment: an Embodied AI Agent for Productivity in XR" by @riccardobovo.bsky.social et al. showing how powerful AI agents can be when they are aware of the content around us, driven by contextual inputs like gaze. Web: embardiment.github.io Code: coming soon

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Super proud of our collaboration with academia on advancing inputs for XR receiving a recognition by @acm-sigchi.bsky.social. 🙌 @ejgonz.bsky.social, @kenpfeuffer.bsky.social, @hansgellersen.bsky.social, Hasti, Karan, Max, Andrea

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Doğa Doğan @dogadogan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Stoked that 𝐗𝐑-𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 - our "Augmented Object Intelligence" concept from UIST'24 - was selected as a 2025 @SXSW.com 🏆 Innovation Awards Finalist!🤩 www.sxsw.com/interactive/... @twimar.bsky.social @ejgonz.bsky.social @googlesearch.bsky.social @acm-sigchi.bsky.social 🎉

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2025 SXSW Innovation Awards Finalists Announced

50+ finalists provide a glimpse of the future in 11 different categories ranging from Artificial Intelligence to Health & Biotech to Community Empowerment.

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Cool points (pun intended) Would like to see the interactivity enabled by an LLM that helps describe the context

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I guess sometimes when we migrate we bring a baggage too.. when @davledo.bsky.social and @fbrudy.bsky.social invited me to talk at @autodeskresearch.bsky.social he prepared a super cute visual summary that deserves porting ;) challenges stand stronger now that we kind of tackled the OS in the room 🐘

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

If you are looking for a beautiful book to start 2025: “Anaximander” by Carlo Rovelli. The book won the Lewis Thomas Prize on scientific writing last year. It’s wonderfully written. Audiobook was great for car rides with the kids. Happy 2025 everyone!

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I love when people notice the secret sauce that is: things should just work! “I've used many VR … & had a lot of experiences… I lifted my hand off the mouse, hand tracking was instantly back in action. Android XR made to whatever inputs: hands, eyes, voice, keyboards, mice or connected phones”

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Ryo, Misha, David and myself are organizing a workshop at #CHI2025 on *Everyday AR through AI-in-the-Loop*. If you are interested in topics such as adaptive AR, AR+AI Agents, or task guidance, consider submitting. We are looking for 1-2 pagers! Deadline is Feb 15th. xr-and-ai.github.io/

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Can someone contribute a FinalIK that is opensource so we can opensource a bunch of things like AvatarPilot or CoolMoves? @realkaranahuja @Eyal_Ofek @ericwang0701 @thundercarrot You can start from the minimal IK we did for the @MSFTResearch Movebox:...

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Missinformation just an oversight of integrity. For scientific studies it looks like the horoscope: “if you eat eggs you live longer”, but “you should cut eggs if you want longevity”. It’s nefarious for science. But IMO journalism lack of integrity is worse on the nefarious axis.

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Incredible line up of talks at the #FutureOfText Symposium. Thanks so much to the organizers @liquidizer @dgrigar. In the pics: Ge Li from @DSE_Unibo, @KenPfeuffer from @AarhusUni_int and Ryan House from @UWMadison. Great support by @SloanFoundation and @wsu.

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Just met with @_yudaitanaka at #ISMAR2024 and he told me yesterday he met with @tao_yujie and asked her: “is mar at ISMAR?” LOL 🤣🫡 yes I am

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Great @hrvojebenko!! Impressed by the variety of wrist prototypes that you have built over the years. Your work has come a long way since our time at MSR. I ❤️the end of the keynote, quoting @wasbuxton, also a former MSR colleague.

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

This week at @ismarconf we will present two foundational workpieces on Avatar Collaboration. #AvatarPilot and #MRTransformer. As we add ++ people to a VR space the chances of their spaces overlapping tends to Zero. This work solves N people collaborating in dissimilar spaces. 🧵

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

@IEEEmetaverse symposium is kicking up. Wonderful line up of talks. Looking forward to all the discussions.

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

If someone hasn’t still read this book. Now is the moment 🙏. Congrats to @DAcemogluMIT

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Looking forward to joining @zhao__ding & colleagues @CarnegieMellon Mech Eng tomorrow for my seminar “A Fabricated Reality: in the era of AI” I will do a retrospective of physical blends with VR + the future that comes with AI: a Programmable Reality....

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

GenAI is amazing! But so hard to apply to VR where we don't have large datasets to train on the type of content that is meaningful. This is about to change 🤞. @AndersChriii this week @eccvconf presented our groundbreaking work on improving genAI 360 imgs...

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Like many of you I was👀the launch of Orion #MetaConnect. I❤️seeing @finkd showcase this application. So in line with our XR-Objects vision. While the dev kit rolls out, you can try our opensource xr-objects.github.io. Here findings of our explorations:🧵

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Diving deep into how Gaze + Pinch can be a seamless solution to interactions in XR brought us to 1⃣rethink the design considerations www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/cg/2…, & then to 2⃣the bimanual roles across direct and indirect interactions to be...

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

The BIRD team is growing! If you are a research scientist who loves building software and prototypes, moves fast and strives for high standards, prepare your portfolio+cv, and...

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Thread 🧵on embodiment & avatar customization. Editing an avatar that you will later embody on a disembody panel feels sort of creepy. In real life we do all that in first person perspective (1pp): dressing, make up. Check on the mirror. If we feel comfortable: off we go.

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Thanks @lukasgehrke_ and @klausgramann for having me over at the “Manipulating and Measuring Presence in XR: State-of-the-art and Outstanding Challenges” workshop in...

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Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco @twimar.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

Looking forward to this Hispanic/Latino discussion with the @arxiv community on their annual Accessibility Forum. accessibility2024.arxiv.org Con muchas ganas de participar en el foro accesibilidad e acessibilidade de @arxiv (La conversación será en Español y Portugues)

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