Lucy Smith

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Hello, welcome back to another episode of Science with Dr. Carl in your podcast feed.

My name is Lucy Smith, and if you've been hanging out here for a minute, you might remember back in March, we had an episode called Morning vs Motion Sickness, Sunburnt Eyes and Colourblind Dreams.

And in it, we got this question from Nate on the Sunshine Coast.

This led to a whole conversation about video games, motion sickness, VR technology.

And we got so many comments and questions off the back of it.

We thought, you know what?

Why don't we dedicate an entire episode just to this?

That's right, this week we are getting into the world of gaming and we've got one of the best in the business.

To answer your questions, Professor Marcus Carter from the University of Sydney, he's a researcher in human-computer interaction focusing on gaming and VR.

Not only are we going to get into the nuts and bolts of some of these games, he's also going to tell you some of his favourites that he's playing for recreation, plus the way that gaming is making its way into other industries like physiotherapy, navigating dyslexia and heaps more.

Let's get into it.

Across from me is Dr Karl and this week we have a very special guest.

Because we are getting into the world of video game technology this week.

Dr Karl, we've got Professor Marcus Carter with us.

So, Marcus, let's talk about gaming.

Do you remember your first memory of a video game that you played?

That's so cool.

And so how do you go from playing video games that's a part of your social life to then making a career out of them?

Yeah, you were previously the president of the Digital Games Research Association of Australia.