Projects
XR Stories supports a wide range of research and development projects, facilitating innovation in technology led creative content, experiences and stories. Details of our active and completed projects can be found on this page.
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Featured project
Supporting R&D at Maida Vale Studios
Research
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Featured project
The Tell-Tale Rooms: Exploring virtual rooms using CGI and 360° VR
Arts
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Featured project
The Abandoned Library
Research
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Featured project
Extending Emmerdale
Research
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Featured project
Dead Good Venues
Research
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Featured project
Stories from the Ground: Unearthing Hidden Histories
Arts
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Featured project
From Fire and Ice: The Viking Creation Myth
Arts
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Featured project
Behind the screen: The ITV Emmerdale immersive VR experience
Research
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Featured project
Star Carr: Life after the Ice
Heritage
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The Invited: An immersive AR pop-up book
Arts
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AI, What’s that Sound? AI and Responsible Storytelling
Research
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The Interview: Real life stories in VR
Games
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A Carnival Comes to Town: Poetry in VR
Arts
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NDEVR: Immersive 360° Storytelling
Film
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Into-Visible: Exploring gender inequality in VR
Film
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Think Twice: Critical thinking in VR
Film
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Vital Stories – Immersive storytelling on Twitch
Games
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In Here Out There
Technology
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Protopian Tales: Using XR to bring animated stories to life
Research
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SuperCharging Audio Storytelling: 3D Audio in Virtual Reality
Games
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Personasmith: An interactive game about counterfeit and forgery
Games
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The Burning Room: A Comedy-Horror VR Experience
Technology
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Grains of Recollection: A Unique VR Experience
Arts
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Monoliths: Exploring voice, spatial audio and landscapes in virtual reality
Arts
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Flood: Combining XR technologies with immersive storytelling
Arts
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XR Technology for Live Performance
Performance
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A3i – Accessible audio for autistic individuals
Research
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The Gyre
Technology
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Home Planet
Technology
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Under Her Black Flag
Research
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Vanished Streets
Research
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Tunche
Research
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The Chime Hours
Research
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Immersive Storytelling tools for Kirkstall Abbey
Research
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Veiled Reality
Research
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Fowl Play: A prototype Roblox ITV Emmerdale experience
Games
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Plunge
Research
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Your Heritage, Your Story
Research
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Sky R&D Challenge
Research
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Intermission
Arts
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Revealed
Arts
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HIVE IT: Archive to AR Immersive Storytelling
Arts
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The Archive
Arts
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Live by the Sword: Adjusting gameplay levels using AI
Games
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AI Fan Along
Technology
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Change Makers! A youth platform to promote social and political change
Technology
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Storyland
Performance
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BD Stories: digital live performances
Arts
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Old Jim’s Library
Games
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Secret Story Network: Exploring live interactive stories with audience participation
Performance
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Enriching the visual environments of interactive story-driven games
Games
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Box in the Attic: an interactive podcast series
Arts
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By the rising tide of Humber: Flooding Andrew Marvell’s Hull in VR
Technology
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Opera North: Reaching new audiences with immersive digital trailers
Performance
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Absent Sitters: Exploring a new virtual event concept for electronic musicians
Performance
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Sea to Sea: Enhancing rail passenger experiences through immersive storytelling
Arts
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Exploring Projection Mapped Games Environments
Arts
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Responsive Interpretive Storytelling
Arts
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Surround Stories: Immersive Screens for Cultural Exhibition
Performance
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Mind Hopping: 360° filming to experience stories
Film
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Digital Meets Theatre: Next stage of Trumpet adaptation
Performance
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Glimmer and Symphony
Film
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Using extended-reality to enhance live ballet performances
Arts
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Air TV | Exploring immersive and interactive TV shows
Technology
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To Play For: Character-driven stories powered by AI
Technology
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Prox & Reverie: Connecting worlds through INTERCHANGE
Technology
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Stories in the Sky VR
Technology
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Lag-free audio communication
Technology
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Re-imagining 3D models of archaeological sites in virtual reality
Technology
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Exploring persuasive interactive film
Film
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Projects of Worth: Meaningful experience within videogames
Games
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Traitor VR: Engaging audiences in VR, immersive theatre
Performance
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Shapeshifter
Film
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EARS (Esports Audience Response System)
Games
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Block: An XR Scenographic Tool
Performance
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Awesome Animals Safari
Games
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Surround Stories Lab
Arts
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XR Games: Storybox
Arts
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Space, Time and Streets in the Sky
Arts
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TRUSTD
Technology
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Blockout
Games
