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September 16, 2019 In Achievements, Awards, News By Jonna Koivisto

Dr. Jonna Koivisto awarded the “Technology Publisher of the Year” by Tampere University

Last week, on the 12th of September 2019, Dr. Jonna Koivisto from the GG team received the “Technology Publisher of the Year” award given out by the Industrial Research Fund at Tampere University of Technology at the Tampere University award ceremony. The annual award is...

September 6, 2019 In Event, Gamification, News, Virtumer By Shuo Yang

Call For Participants

We are looking for volunteers ( STUDENTS ONLY) to take part in a study of [shopping experience] As a participant in this study, you would be asked to spend [the gift card in the shop and fill out the computer-based survey]. Your participation is entirely voluntary...

August 1, 2019 In eSports, Gambling, News By Joseph Macey

What About VGO?: The Ongoing Debate Around Loot Boxes and Virtual Item Gambling

Discussions about the potential for loot boxes to be considered as a form of gambling have maintained a consistent presence over the last few years, entering the mainstream primarily as a result of EA’s launch of Battlefront 2 in late 2017[7]. Since then there have...

September 11, 2018 In eSports, News By Max Sjöblom

The phenomena of esports, Yle Radio 1 show (in Finnish)

What is this whole esports phenomena about, how many people play & watch these games, and what about these huge sums of money that are starting to be part of the esports industry? To answer some of these questions, Max Sjöblom from the Gamification Group...

January 30, 2018 In Augmented Reality, IMMERSIVE, News, Virtual Reality By Mila Bujic

XR Bulletin January 2018

Developing AR applications has very recently become more attractive than it has ever been before. As Apple launched the ARKit (September 19, 2017, with iOS 11) and Google launched ARCore (August 25 2017, first preview), app developers were given the possibility to jump into AR...

December 12, 2017 In Augmented Reality, IMMERSIVE, News, Virtual Reality By Mila Bujic

XR Bulletin December 2017

As this is our first blog in the XR Bulletin series, it seems appropriate to first shortly introduce the state of virtual reality (VR) to this day. For those of you who are complete beginners, first have a look at this HTC’s post - VR...

December 10, 2017 In eSports, Gambling, News By Joseph Macey

The Convergence of Gaming and Gambling?

In the last few days and weeks the relationship between digital games and gambling has become a topic of interest to mainstream society with both national media and politicians debating the topic 4, 30. This is the latest aspect that has seen increased attention placed on the...