A summary of thoughts and discussions about the implications of Facebook/Oculus accounts in a research and teaching context. wp.cs.ucl.ac.uk/anthonysteed/2…

For those of you interested on VR for pain therapy, Tony Donegan, b ryan, j swidrak and myself, just published a perspective article Frontiers in Virtual Reality going over challenges that one may encounter when using VR with chronic pain patients: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

My team focuses on quality evaluation and we have multiple open projects on perceptual assessment and audiovisual synchronicity. Please share or reach out if you are interested! More info here: oculus.com/careers/a1K2K0…

(Almost) everything there is to know about avatars. From how can they be made & animated. To the utility of free avatars. Bringing consensus between industry & academia on key aspects: what’s an avatar?... W the history of #MicrosoftRocketbox at center. frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Advertisement for PhD positions at Event Lab Institut de Neurociències de la UB #VR euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/577203

Tenemos financiación para un estudiante de doctorado en el Event Lab de la Universitat de Barcelona. Por favor envíeme un correo electrónico a través de event-lab.org si está interesado y su carrera es en informática / realidad virtual #VR y tiene residencia en España Event Lab

International Foundation has awarded Daniel Freeman Oxford Psychiatry & team £1 million grant to develop & test a #VirtualReality program to help #young #people with #Schizophrenia increase their self-confidence. bit.ly/3bqyeHV Medical Sciences University of Oxford Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre Oxford Neuroscience

Interested in our Masters in Virtual and Augmented Reality at Goldsmiths Computing come to our virtual open day next thursday: gold.ac.uk/open-days/

We are looking for two PhD students to work on collaborative mixed reality jobs.ac.uk/job/CEZ310/phd…

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21… Looking at the intersection of the bystander effect, social identity, violence, and virtual reality.

We are looking for a Lecturer/Associate Professor in Visual Computing, please circulate jobs.ac.uk/job/CNW684/lec…

We used Reinforcement Learning in #VR to investigate when bystanders to a violent incident might respond with prosocial helping behaviour Aitor Rovira Oxford Health NHS FT UCL Computer Science @Ubneuroscience Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council European Research Council (ERC) nature.com/articles/s4159…

Delighted to share the results of the gameChange trial, out today in the @TheLancetPsych. The headline: gameChange VR therapy helps people feel more confident in everyday situations. Huge thanks to the incredible team of people who made this possible. The McPin Foundation

Link to the paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper getting to grips with potential VR therapy side effects. Side effects infrequent and did not affect outcomes. Most common concern was what else was happening in room. 27 side effects assessed, which clustered into three types… Oxford Psychiatry cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Congratulations to the Event Horizon 'Scope team on capturing the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy!

oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/careers/vacanc… We have a new job opening for a virtual reality researcher at Oxford Health NHS FT and Oxford Psychiatry to join Daniel Freeman team.

We are looking for psychologist/cognitive science student to work in the Event Lab part time on the European Research Council (ERC) project MoTIVE (motiverc.org). See the advert euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/100882

link.springer.com/article/10.100… How does it feel to be bullied? A first-person perspective bullying experience in virtual reality. #bullying #VirtualReality

Experimental test of how the programming of a VR virtual coach can affect therapeutic alliance, credibility, and expectancy (proxies of better treatment outcomes). Opens up new studies. First (great) DPhil paper from Shu + Aitor Rovira Oxford ExpPsychology rdcu.be/dg1RH