Gustavo Marfia received a Laurea degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2003 and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2009. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna. He also directs MIXR---Master in Innovation in eXtended Reality. Between 2002 and 2004, he worked in Siemens Mobile Communications Research Labs, Milan. Between 2004 and 2009, during his research period in Los Angeles, he collaborated with STMicroelectronics, Microsoft Research Cambridge, the Los Alamos National Labs, and the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella. From 2009 to October 2012, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy; in 2011, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles. In November 2012, he joined the Department for Life Quality Studies of the University of Bologna, where in 2019 he started the VARLAB, a lab devoted to designing, constructing and assessing distributed and immersive environments.