Insights & Reflections
System Shock: How 1378(km) Shaped My View on Media Art and AI
How the pre-diploma serious game project 1378(km) evolved from a global media scandal to a foundational philosophy for creative technology, local AI, and interactive spaces.
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The Last Bastion of the Human Creative Mind
The Industrial Revolution replaced muscle. The AI revolution replaces routine cognition. Machines compute faster, code cleaner, and recombine patterns with ruthless efficiency. What remains of the human when machines take over everything else? Dr. Jens M. Stober explores the boundary of human and machine creativity.
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Exploring Viking History: 3D-Scanned Nordic Runestones from Lund, Sweden
Authentic Viking Age runestones 3D-scanned in Lund, Sweden. Low-poly, Nanite-ready meshes with 4K PBR textures for Unreal Engine 5. Perfect for games, virtual production, museums, and educational AR/VR projects.
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Adaptive, AI-Driven Gaming: Shaping the Future of Interactive Entertainment
Discover the future of adaptive, AI-driven gaming that transforms single-player experiences. Learn how industry pioneer ELORX blends art, play, and digital innovation to push the boundaries of interactive entertainment.
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Hacking as a Playful Strategy
Based on his doctoral research, Dr. Stober investigates how subverting structural rules and technical limitations can unlock entirely new dimensions of human experience and play.
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Building the Perfect Unreal Engine 5 Workstation
Critical insights on building a high-performance workstation for Unreal Engine 5's cutting-edge features like Nanite and Lumen, and how building the right PC can make all the difference.
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Build the Ultimate Unreal Engine 5 Workstation | Expert Guide
Discover the ELORX Unreal Engine 5 Workstation guide by Dr. Jens M. Stober. Learn how to build the perfect PC for Unreal Engine 5 with detailed hardware recommendations.
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BCI & VR: Ride Your Mind
Inside the design of an adaptive Neuro-VR installation. Discover how raw brainwave data streams into neural networks to sculpt a virtual universe in real time.
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1378(km) @ Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg, Sweden
My Serious Game Art Piece 1378(km) is shown at the Museum of World Culture (Varldskulturmuseet) in Gothenburg, Sweden in the exhibition World of Games.
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Publication: Context Matters!
The activity of play is situated within different contextual constraints. Games contextualize the way we play and, vice versa, our play recontextualizes the rules and goals of games.
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Futuristic and Fictional User Interfaces
Prof. Dr. Matthias Wölfel and Jens M. Stober held a three days workshop about Futuristic and Fictional User Interfaces at Pforzheim University.
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My Serious Game 1378(km) is one of the best German Games in the last 25 years!
My artistic Serious Game 1378(km) was noted as one of the best German Games of the last 25 years by the online presences of the newspaper Welt.
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