XR Stories launches creative business residency programme

XR Stories has opened applications for its 2025 creative business residency programme. The programme provides an opportunity for creative businesses to access specialist support and infrastructure at the University of York.

The programme will enable artists, freelancers and small businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber to work on projects using extended reality (XR) technologies in a space outside of their usual environment.

Successful applicants will become residents in the XR Stories immersive technology lab, located in The Guildhall, in York city centre. 

For up to five days, residents will be able to use XR Stories’ facilities as their own workspace to incubate new ideas and carry out productive research and development, with support from the XR Stories team. 

Designed as a place of creative experimentation and collaboration, the lab includes a range of equipment spanning five key areas of XR:

• Virtual production.
• Virtual characters and performance capture.
• Virtual archiving.
• Virtual reality.
• Spatial audio technology.

With multiple places available between March and November 2025, residents will also have access to lab PCs with Unreal Engine, and a variety of handheld smart devices. 

Applications for the XR Stories 2025 creative business residency programme are now closed.

To enquire about ad hoc business support services, please complete the XR Stories enquiries form.

Published on 20 January 2025