Had the pleasure of presenting a guest lecture on VR avatars today for the Department of Digital Humanities at Brock University. Thank you for having me!
Had a great time attending the Meta Educator Community Summit this past week! Loved connecting with K-12 and university educators, researchers, and industry professionals exploring immersive learning. I left inspired by conversations about measuring XR’s impact in education and imagining what’s next
Career update: Excited to share that I've joined Meta Reality Labs in Redmond, WA as a UX Research Scientist Intern this summer where I will be investigating how humans experience and interact with novel audio technologies in MR/VR 🎧☀️
Grateful for a summer of research, collaboration, and connecting with XR+game studies communities. Some highlights:
✅ Completed my research scientist internship at Meta Reality Labs Research
✅ Co-presented at the #SIGGRAPH Spatial Storytelling demos
✅ Presented at the BIPOC Game Studies conference
This summer at Meta, I had the opportunity to work with the Reality Labs Research Audio Team, conducting UX research on novel audio technologies in immersive environments and helping shape the future of connection in AR and VR.
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At #BIPOCGames2025, I shared my research highlighting the embodied implications of avatar representation in social VR. I felt inspired this community, the talks, and the critical discussions on games. And the Strong National Museum of Play was amazing!
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At #SIGGRAPH, I had the pleasure of co-presenting with Scarlett Kim, director and creative producer at C.U.T.E., on theatrical and theoretical perspectives on virtual puppetry. We made a call for deeper interdisciplinary engagement between artists and researchers.
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Game educators, GDC submissions are due much earlier! (Aug 7). Please submit, I can vouch that the conference is really excited to have educator content and even opened up ideas like workshops and debates. Here's the call: gdconf.com/gdc-call-for... Feel free to reach out to me with any questions 🙂
Virtual Becomes Reality finally available (for free) on Quest. Take a guided 15-minute tour of the Stanford lab. Fly like a hero, walk the plank, defend coral in Palau, become a QB, dance with Grover, transform identity in the mirror. Now we are bringing the lab to you!
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