Preparing for launch 🚀 👉 See edia-toolbox.github.io for details.

It’s been a busy semester preparing to start at TMU January! Applied for three federal grants, building collaborations, helping organize VR conferences, and designed and printed a logo for my new lab @vriendlab.bsky.social that will focus on social #VR in learning 😎🤞

ACM TOCHI is creating a Distinguished Reviewer Board, we hope that you will apply to help us improve the papers we curate. You will get training in reviewing, experience with high-quality papers, and a bit of recognition. Apply at forms.gle/BWUbgHBddiro.... Please RT or DM to interested folks.

Nice piece that highlights what does feel like a deliberate choice by the Nobel committee www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Really excited about this project and glad we can publicly talk about it now. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... To follow updates, please see kwandekando.ca I’ll try to post more about our #VR language learning applications later.

Do you know an undergraduate student who has shown outstanding potential in computing research? Now is the time to nominate them for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Awards. Due Oct 15: cra.org/crae/awards/...

Maybe not surprising considering my research area; but one of my favourite things is wearing headphones playing thunderstorm sounds when it rains 🥰

Our work with the @immersivelrn.bsky.social 2024 conference is now online ( lnkd.in/gc2gW-dW )! 📖 "𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘜𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪-𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵-𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱" 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴: www.anthony-scavarelli.com/wp-content/u...

We have years of interesting talks tracing the modern era of #virtualreality #augmentedreality #webxr #haptics #immersivedesign #xr #spatialcomputing #cyberpunk and whatever else you want to call it at our YouTube page going back to 2015 Check it out youtube.com/@vrtoxr?si=s...

I keep getting Reddit posts about how researchers are flocking to Bluesky. Hopefully, I can find more #VR and #HCI researchers to connect with here :)