We are the first human beings to see a Mars sunset. Its quite a thought.

One year ago the EPIC team at Microsoft Research was having its offsite surrounded by nature. So much has happened since then... Thanks for the photo Frederik Brudy! It is great to be reminded we keep working with some of our heroes and making the difference. (Tagging the ppl in Twitter)

Learn more about Haptic PIVOT tomorrow at ACM UIST by robert kovacs

(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…

The LocomotionVault paper is out of the oven! di Luca, Seifi, Egan, Gonzalez-Franco (2021) “Locomotion Vault: the Extra Mile in Analyzing VR Locomotion Techniques” ACM CHI - Having so many types of techniques in one place give new insights: 🧵

Over the last 2 years I have been working a lot w the Microsoft #Soundscape app. One of the few Spatial Computing app based on 3D sensory input, working on the wild and solving a real problem. Today we are writing about (some of) our findings in Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/how-gp…

We designed a mobile game to challenge your problem solving skills. Collect all the colored gems as fast as possible to earn points, but without passing the same node twice! Download ThinkAhead for free on Android play.google.com/store/apps/det…

ThinkAhead è un gioco per cellulare che sfida la tua abilità di problem solving. Prendi tutte le gemme colorate più velocemente possibile, senza passare due volte dallo stesso nodo! Scarica gratuitamente su Android play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Everyone might predict the lockdown changes our peripersonal space. With ⁦silvia.serino⁩ we found it did in a non trivial way. Here the paper in ⁦Current Biology⁩. Sharpening of peripersonal space during the COVID-19 pandemic - ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

#ActiveRHI Active Strategies for Multisensory Conflict Suppression in the Virtual Hand Illusion accepted in Scientific Reports Better title & more focused intro & discussion the updated preprint:biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Amazing collaborators Sae, David David Franklin & Antonella Maselli

Et voilà the published manuscript: 👇 rdcu.be/cBWTv #ActiveRHI by Antonella Maselli David Franklin Donders Institute TU München in Scientific Reports

Read the target paper by Pablo Lanillos (🤖🧠) Antonella Maselli David Franklin et al.: nature.com/articles/s4159… ...and more thoughts on sensory attenuation and body representation here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Super proud of Tiffany Liu presenting our work in @ACM_CHI. We analyzed a lot of (anonymous) data and learned how to better serve our blind users (4700+) in #Soundscape dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34… Javier Hernandez Antonella Maselli Microsoft Research

Do we move our body beyond intentions? 💪🧠 🟢Our new paper with Antonella Maselli & Giovanni Pezzulo in PLOS Comp Biol "Active inference unifies intentional and conflict-resolution imperatives of motor control" 👇 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

14. Antonella Maselli, Eyal Ofek, briandaybreak, @ken_hinckley and Dr. Mar Gonzalez-Franco: Displace the virtual location of the hand in VR, and find participants are more effective at making corrections towards the body midline than away from it royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

We are thrilled to announce this year's International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI: neuromonster.org This will be held in Rome, 28th-31st May 2024. We have great speakers and sponsors already - come and join us!

Hokusai, sulla grande onda partita dal Giappone: la mostra a Palazzo Blu - la Repubblica repubblica.it