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💡Topic: "From Pixels to Principles: What Gaming Taught Me About Decoding Reality" <從像素到人生哲理：遊戲如何教我解碼現實>
📆Date: Tuesday, 30/9/2025
⏰Time: Doors open at 7:30 PM
📍Location: Pondside, Hong Kong Island
🎙️Speaker: Professor Lu, University Professor, XR/VR/MR Designer, and Lifelong Gamer turned Researcher.
🗣️Language: English
What if every game you’ve ever played wasn’t just entertainment, but a training ground for understanding the hidden rules of our world? As a lifelong gamer turned researcher, Professor Lu from a leading school of design in Hong Kong discovered that the mechanics of games—resource management, social hierarchies, risk-reward systems—mirror the invisible frameworks shaping our societies, economies, and relationships.
This talk will not end at the logic of game design, but extend into how playing them rewired our curiosity to dissect power structures, cultural narratives, and even human behavior in the real world. Professor Lu's academic research explores how gamified XR environments are reshaping the emotional landscape of our everyday lives. His expertise spans computational architecture, VR/AR/MR/XR interaction, and emotion-driven design systems. With Professor Lu, let's explore how shifting from ‘player’ to ‘detective’ can turn life itself into the most compelling game we’re all trying to decode—and maybe even redesign.
Join us for this insightful yet accessible look at how virtual design merges with human psychology, storytelling, and embodiment. Whether you’re a designer, gamer, tech thinker, or curious urbanite, this session invites you to rethink what inspirations the virtual worlds in the game we play can offer us.
Grab a drink 🥃, meet other curious minds 🤯, and explore the line between technology and feeling, play and perception.
Only at TapTalks. 🍷
Agenda
7:30 PM – Doors open: seat yourself and order food/drinks
7:55 PM – Host introduction
8:00 PM – Lecture begins 8:40 PM – Q&A
9:00 PM - Stay and mingle with the speaker and fellow participants. Get another round of drinks!
**This ticket does NOT include any food & beverage. We kindly ask you to support HK local businesses by ordering at least one item per guest from their menu.
