Dr Karl

I'm a professor of human-computer interaction.

So I study how people use computers and how they're designed and I've always focused on games and virtual reality.

That would be.

And that's what keeps me in a job, I think.

Ah, we have to be golden eye on the N64.

But for me, I really got into games as a young teen with Halo video games on the Xbox.

Wow.

Because they were such an important part of my social life because all of my friends played it.

And so I moved to Australia when I was 12 and it was kind of through video games that I made my first friends and built some friendships that have lasted the rest of my life.

Not quite.

Halo in the Halo video games are ring worlds, like in Larry Niven's science fiction series.

I love ring world.

Lots of aliens, but still lots of flying down and killing people.

Just the same acronym, different game, and different worlds, I think.

But yeah, I've just been fortunate enough to be able to do research on different topics around gaming, and that's led to my career at the University of Sydney.

What a cushy job.

So I was recently awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship and I'm looking at the monetization of children in the digital games industry.

Oh, look, I can give anything about video games a go, but I can't promise the answers will be as good as what Dr. Carl normally gives you.

So realistically, my question, of course, is while I do think that video games are the greatest medium to tell a story and to do all these things that exist in our world, the applications for the future in things like medicine and other technologies and all of these other things are

Personally, I can remember a panel, I think it was at PAX a few years ago, and it was about a virtual reality simulation that they had made that simulated dementia.