Advancing immersive projects in York and North Yorkshire

The XR Stories creative business residency programme has supported individuals and small businesses in York and North Yorkshire to explore state-of-the-art technologies, incubate ideas and elevate their immersive projects.

Running for the second consecutive year, the 2025 programme supported four creative projects:

• United by Design: Photogrammetry and Gaussian splatting workflow
• Geostories: Developing an immersive story world for an augmented reality audio app
• Debbie Harman: Developing an immersive visitor experience for the National Coal Mining Museum
• Desmond Clarke: Exploring live visuals for music performance

Using the XR Stories immersive technology research and development (R&D) lab as their own workspace, residents explored new approaches in a risk-free environment, with technical and R&D support from the XR Stories team.

XR Stories supported the residents to take their work out into the field, demonstrating how cutting-edge equipment and immersive technologies can be used in different environments to complement lab-specific work.

The residents also benefited from new connections and opportunities made possible through the XR Stories creative network. This included participating in a panel discussion at The Big Thing festival, and speaking at an XR Stories R&D event.  

Watch the XR Stories creative business residency video to find out more about the projects and the programme.

Video produced by Hewitt & Walker Video production York.

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Published on 3 December 2025