Creative Media Labs: Innovations in Screen Storytelling in the Age of Interactivity and Immersion
Lead Research Organisation:
University of York
Department Name: Electronics
Abstract
Storytelling is central to human activity, one of the ways in which we make sense of the world. The screen industries are the latest in a long line of technologies and cultural practices committed to the creation of stories. Film, TV, video, computer games and other interactive media now tell stories digitally. But digital technologies are changing rapidly, enabling new modes of creation, new approaches to storytelling, new experiences for audiences and users. How can the screen industries keep pace with such change? How can they make the most of the new opportunities available to them? How can they develop the skills necessary to engage with these new technologies? How can they create with those technologies in ways that are exciting, commercially viable and capable of generating significant economic growth? These are some of the questions that Creative Media Labs (CML) seeks to answer, as it enables innovations in screen storytelling in the age of interactivity and immersion.
The focus of CML is the considerable cluster of screen industry enterprises in the Yorkshire and Humber (Y&H) region. The partnership aims to enable this regional cluster to become the UK centre of excellence for the next generation of digital storytelling. This is an established creative industries cluster that has been earmarked for significant support through Screen Yorkshire's (SY) Growth Plan, backed by the British Film Institute's (BFI) Creative Clusters Challenge Fund, and showcased in the Creative Industries Sector Deal document as one of five "prominent creative industries cluster projects". SY, the BFI and University of York (UoY) have come together in a collaboration that blends world-leading research on digital storytelling with national strategic vision and unparalleled regional industry nous.
Clustering is key to the development of the contemporary screen industries, and clusters come in many shapes and sizes. With key initiatives across its five major cities, the Y&H region saw the fastest rate of screen industry growth in the UK in 2009-2015. It is home to one of only three ITV production centres, producing around 500 hours of TV annually; True North, the biggest factual producer in the North of England, now owned by Sky; Warp Films, probably the most important out-of-London film company in the UK, and winners of multiple BAFTAs; Rockstar, one of the largest games developers in the world; Sumo Digital, one of the fastest growing games companies in the UK with over 300 staff; Revolution Software, developers of the hugely successful Broken Sword series; Viridian FX, one of the largest VFX houses in the North of England; and Church Fenton Yorkshire Studios, a major production facility used by Mammoth Screen for ITV's Victoria. There is also a wealth of micro businesses working in the sector.
Creative Media Labs will build a sustainable, collaborative R&D partnership around this regional screen industries cluster, its numerous MSMEs and branches of large creative enterprises. Its core delivery partners are UoY, SY and the BFI; the key local authorities, enterprise partnerships and universities in the region are on board; so too are investors and several leading national trade associations, organisations and creative enterprises. Co-creation and collaborative working will be at the core of what we do.
UoY has an excellent track record in multi-disciplinary research, with huge investment in creativity, across the arts, humanities and sciences - a combination reflected in the multi-million pound Digital Creativity Labs. There is an extensive pool of research expertise in digital storytelling, from writing, through media embodiment, to development of underpinning technologies. By identifying industry-led challenges, this expertise will be shared with the Y&H screen industries cluster in ways that will enable us to fulfil our ambition to establish the region as the UK centre of excellence for digital storytelling.
The focus of CML is the considerable cluster of screen industry enterprises in the Yorkshire and Humber (Y&H) region. The partnership aims to enable this regional cluster to become the UK centre of excellence for the next generation of digital storytelling. This is an established creative industries cluster that has been earmarked for significant support through Screen Yorkshire's (SY) Growth Plan, backed by the British Film Institute's (BFI) Creative Clusters Challenge Fund, and showcased in the Creative Industries Sector Deal document as one of five "prominent creative industries cluster projects". SY, the BFI and University of York (UoY) have come together in a collaboration that blends world-leading research on digital storytelling with national strategic vision and unparalleled regional industry nous.
Clustering is key to the development of the contemporary screen industries, and clusters come in many shapes and sizes. With key initiatives across its five major cities, the Y&H region saw the fastest rate of screen industry growth in the UK in 2009-2015. It is home to one of only three ITV production centres, producing around 500 hours of TV annually; True North, the biggest factual producer in the North of England, now owned by Sky; Warp Films, probably the most important out-of-London film company in the UK, and winners of multiple BAFTAs; Rockstar, one of the largest games developers in the world; Sumo Digital, one of the fastest growing games companies in the UK with over 300 staff; Revolution Software, developers of the hugely successful Broken Sword series; Viridian FX, one of the largest VFX houses in the North of England; and Church Fenton Yorkshire Studios, a major production facility used by Mammoth Screen for ITV's Victoria. There is also a wealth of micro businesses working in the sector.
Creative Media Labs will build a sustainable, collaborative R&D partnership around this regional screen industries cluster, its numerous MSMEs and branches of large creative enterprises. Its core delivery partners are UoY, SY and the BFI; the key local authorities, enterprise partnerships and universities in the region are on board; so too are investors and several leading national trade associations, organisations and creative enterprises. Co-creation and collaborative working will be at the core of what we do.
UoY has an excellent track record in multi-disciplinary research, with huge investment in creativity, across the arts, humanities and sciences - a combination reflected in the multi-million pound Digital Creativity Labs. There is an extensive pool of research expertise in digital storytelling, from writing, through media embodiment, to development of underpinning technologies. By identifying industry-led challenges, this expertise will be shared with the Y&H screen industries cluster in ways that will enable us to fulfil our ambition to establish the region as the UK centre of excellence for digital storytelling.
Planned Impact
The Creative Media Labs (CML) Partnership will act as a regional hub through which to invest strategically in R&D that is capable of having a transformational impact to grow the screen industries economy in Yorkshire and the Humber. Our goal is for the Y&H cluster to become the UK centre of excellence for immersive and interactive storytelling, and for that cluster to be economically sustainable and financially healthy. Given the nature of this AHRC programme, CML is all about impact, and we have established a number of pathways to achieving, measuring and demonstrating that impact.
In order to ensure that the products, services and experiences produced through our R&D programme are thoroughly innovative and capable of commercialisation, we have devised a series of funds to support different types of R&D activity in different ways. These will enable the development of both small and large projects, working with specific companies on specific R&D challenges, ranging from student internships, through three-year PhD projects, to collaborations between teams of academic researchers and industry practitioners. Our funds are also designed to enable both slow-burn, extensive R&D developments, and ones that require immediate and swift intervention.
One fund will support industry partners who identify collaborative R&D challenges on which they want to work; another will support post-doctoral research and knowledge exchange; a third will enable the flexible deployment of researchers to projects that will benefit from their skills and expertise. Some of these funds will come from the AHRC grant, some from the University of York contribution, and some from CML partners. We have not committed large sums of money to long-term Co-Is, preferring a more flexible and dynamic model that can match researchers to challenges as they arise.
The BFI and UoY will also fund economic and policy analysis and business modelling, and the development of the creative and technical skills necessary for the production of high-quality digital storytelling. The criteria we will apply when evaluating the viability of any proposed partnership activities are designed to ensure that such activities have the capacity to generate both creative innovations and economic growth. That growth potential will be defined in particular in terms of the creation of new skills, jobs and businesses, and the scaling up of existing businesses.
We have developed robust systems for gathering evidence about partnership activities, and monitoring, understanding and evaluating the impact of those activities. We will continue the work of mapping the screen industries economy and analysing the market in the Y&H region begun by our key partner Screen Yorkshire. This work will be led by the 0.2 FTE Co-I based at the BFI, our other key partner. One key task will be to define what we mean by the 'screen industries' (film, TV, games and other digital media), a term in wide use in industry and policy circles, but one that does not map easily onto Standard Industrial Classifications of industrial sectors. In terms of measuring growth, we will develop a bespoke Customer Relationship Management system to track business interactions and company information.
In terms of measuring success, our overall goal will be to demonstrate the impact of partnership activities on the strength of the screen industries economy in the Y&H region. To do this, we will draw on the analytical categories and reporting processes developed by Nesta et al., to establish a set of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for each individual R&D project and the CML Partnership overall. Working with a bundle of OKRs will enable us to measure success in a flexible and balanced manner and make investment decisions based on robust evidence. In terms of reporting, monitoring and evaluation, we have developed a rigorous set of processes involving our Executive Board, Delivery Team and Partnership Steering Board.
In order to ensure that the products, services and experiences produced through our R&D programme are thoroughly innovative and capable of commercialisation, we have devised a series of funds to support different types of R&D activity in different ways. These will enable the development of both small and large projects, working with specific companies on specific R&D challenges, ranging from student internships, through three-year PhD projects, to collaborations between teams of academic researchers and industry practitioners. Our funds are also designed to enable both slow-burn, extensive R&D developments, and ones that require immediate and swift intervention.
One fund will support industry partners who identify collaborative R&D challenges on which they want to work; another will support post-doctoral research and knowledge exchange; a third will enable the flexible deployment of researchers to projects that will benefit from their skills and expertise. Some of these funds will come from the AHRC grant, some from the University of York contribution, and some from CML partners. We have not committed large sums of money to long-term Co-Is, preferring a more flexible and dynamic model that can match researchers to challenges as they arise.
The BFI and UoY will also fund economic and policy analysis and business modelling, and the development of the creative and technical skills necessary for the production of high-quality digital storytelling. The criteria we will apply when evaluating the viability of any proposed partnership activities are designed to ensure that such activities have the capacity to generate both creative innovations and economic growth. That growth potential will be defined in particular in terms of the creation of new skills, jobs and businesses, and the scaling up of existing businesses.
We have developed robust systems for gathering evidence about partnership activities, and monitoring, understanding and evaluating the impact of those activities. We will continue the work of mapping the screen industries economy and analysing the market in the Y&H region begun by our key partner Screen Yorkshire. This work will be led by the 0.2 FTE Co-I based at the BFI, our other key partner. One key task will be to define what we mean by the 'screen industries' (film, TV, games and other digital media), a term in wide use in industry and policy circles, but one that does not map easily onto Standard Industrial Classifications of industrial sectors. In terms of measuring growth, we will develop a bespoke Customer Relationship Management system to track business interactions and company information.
In terms of measuring success, our overall goal will be to demonstrate the impact of partnership activities on the strength of the screen industries economy in the Y&H region. To do this, we will draw on the analytical categories and reporting processes developed by Nesta et al., to establish a set of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for each individual R&D project and the CML Partnership overall. Working with a bundle of OKRs will enable us to measure success in a flexible and balanced manner and make investment decisions based on robust evidence. In terms of reporting, monitoring and evaluation, we have developed a rigorous set of processes involving our Executive Board, Delivery Team and Partnership Steering Board.
Organisations
- University of York (Lead Research Organisation)
- Human Studio (Collaboration)
- LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- National Film and Television School (Collaboration)
- Kit Monkman Associates (Collaboration)
- I O U Theatre (Collaboration)
- RETìníZE Limited (Collaboration)
- Megaverse Ltd (Collaboration)
- Leeds Beckett University (Collaboration)
- British Film Institute (BFI) (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- Turner Broadcasting System (Collaboration)
- Bang & Olufsen (Collaboration)
- Prox and Reverie (Collaboration)
- York Archaeological Trust (Collaboration)
- Thunkd (Collaboration)
- AY-PE Ltd (Collaboration)
- Vidaveo (Collaboration)
- SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- YORK MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY (Collaboration)
- Anti (Design Services) Limited (Collaboration)
- Pilot Theatre (Collaboration)
- University of Hull (Collaboration)
- Opera North (Collaboration)
- JOI POLLOI LTD (Collaboration)
- SAFE PROFILE LTD (Collaboration)
- Goodwin Development Trust Ltd (Collaboration)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Collaboration)
- New Moon Studios (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- University of Huddersfield (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD (Collaboration)
- Storypunk Ltd (Collaboration)
- Science Museum (Collaboration)
- BetaJester (Collaboration)
- COOPERATIVE INNOVATIONS LTD (Collaboration)
- YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- VIRIDIAN FX LIMITED (Collaboration)
- Learn to Play (Collaboration)
- XR Games Limited (Collaboration)
- Random Music Management Ltd (Collaboration)
- Vanitas Arts (Collaboration)
- Fierce Kaiju (Collaboration)
- Revolution Software Ltd (Collaboration)
- Louise Malkinson Ltd (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- SKY Group (Collaboration)
- Bellyfeel Media Limited (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Diva Creative (Collaboration)
- Israac Somali Community & Cultural Association (Collaboration)
- FREEDOM STUDIOS (Collaboration)
- Ultimet Films (Collaboration)
- Screen Yorkshire (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Live Cinema UK (Collaboration)
- Bournemouth University (Collaboration)
- Creative Alchemy One (Collaboration)
- One to One Development Trust (Collaboration)
- Fettle Animation (Collaboration)
- University of the West of England (Collaboration)
- Council of British Archaeology (Collaboration)
- Teesside University (Collaboration)
- Duck Soup Films (Collaboration)
- Dubit (Collaboration)
- Digifish (Collaboration)
- Carbon Imagineering (Collaboration)
- National Science and Media Museum (Collaboration)
- University of Bradford (Project Partner)
- Duck Soup Films Ltd (Project Partner)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Warp Films (Project Partner)
- Sony Interactive Entertainment (Project Partner)
- British Film Institute (Project Partner)
- Game Republic (Project Partner)
- BT Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Willment N
(2023)
'Audiencing' the travel blog: Examining how practices of audiencing influence the affective labour of travel bloggers online
in New Media & Society
Swords J
(2022)
A Modern Guide to Creative Economies
Swords.J
(2022)
A Modern Guide to the Creative Economy.
Geary D.
(2022)
A survey of co-located multi-device audio experiences
in Proceedings of the AES International Conference
Geary D
(2022)
A survey of co-located multi-device audio experiences
Gochfeld D
(2022)
A Tale of Two Productions A Christmas Carol On Stage and in VR
in Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Ward, L
(2022)
Accessible Audio for Autistic Individuals
Foteinou A
(2023)
An Acoustic Reconstruction of the House of Commons, c. 1820-1834
in Acoustics
Mottram S
(2023)
Andrew Marvell's To his Coy Mistress: Love in the Little Ice Age
| Title | 'The Rising: Escape the Dark' Sky Live App |
| Description | Following XR Stories support, Reflex Arc developed a new app in connection with Sky's programme 'The Rising' |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | None registered at present |
| URL | https://reflexarc.co.uk/projects/sky-xrstories-the-rising |
| Title | 1001 Stories: Archives - VR Experience |
| Description | Following XR Stories support, artist Olivia Kitteridge developed a new VR experience centred around stories shared by the citizens of Leeds. The experience was created as part of the 1001 Stories project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | None registered at present |
| URL | https://realtimestories.co/archives |
| Title | 360 degree Fulldome live performance experiment |
| Description | An experimental relational performance staged within a 360 fulldome cinema integrating live performer and 360 projected film - this was a prototype designed experience for 1-to1 and small audiences |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Continues to inform ongoing research and contributes to industry partners' work in the sector including ongoing funded training opportunities through XR Stories. Work has also informed current AHRC capital funding bid |
| URL | https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/performance/news/article/2292/xr-stories-the-surround-stories-research-proje... |
| Title | Ballistic Beats: Motion-controlled game |
| Description | Motion-controlled game |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Development of new IP and content through the creation of a new digital artefact focusing on aspects of accessibility. |
| Title | Broadcast Futures Interactive museum exhibit |
| Description | Interactive museum exhibit |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Development of new IP and content through a public exhibition at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, part of the Science Museum Group |
| URL | https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/what-was-on/switched-on |
| Title | Derelict Rescue Revealed |
| Description | Following XR Stories support, Air TV created an online piece of interactive content, accompanying TV property series Derelict Rescue. The content allows viewers to virtually tour each completed home, and access additional behind-the-scenes information |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | None registered at present |
| URL | https://derelictrescue.co.uk/ |
| Title | Digital Story Universe Portal |
| Description | A digital storytelling portal website with story sound effects, created by Digital Story Universe following XR Stories support, that allows readers to write their own story. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | None registered at present |
| URL | https://digitalstoryuniverse.firebaseapp.com/ |
| Title | GeoStories AR app |
| Description | Following XR Stories support, GeoStories launched a geolocated audio drama app which uses augmented reality |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | None registered at present |
| URL | https://www.geostories.co.uk/ |
| Title | Ground Unearthed AR app |
| Description | Ground Unearthed - created by creative industries company Peter & Paul following XR Stories funding and support is an Augmented reality app about Food inequality and bio-piracy. The app is the digital companion to a live arts event, and uses a 3D-printed ceramic seed to activate a series of stories, which come to life via animation and illustrations. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | None registered at present |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/stories-from-the-ground-unearthing-hidden-histories/ |
| Title | Home Planet: Climate Change VR experience |
| Description | VR experience built in Unreal Engine |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Development of new IP and content through the creatiokn of a digital artefact exploring the role XR can play in addressing key climate change topics. This has enabled Sustainable Arts in Leeds (SAIL), a not-for profit membership organisation, to explore how XR can enhance their carbon-literacy training. |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/grant/the-climate-change-challenge/ |
| Title | Immersive Trailer for Turn of the Screw |
| Description | An interactive online trailer/advert incorporating recorded music and animation and controllable by the viewer/user. The opera, Turn of the Screw, is famously eerie but it's hard to engage a new/younger audience with it (or indeed any opera). By embracing the spookiness of the ghost story, the project team developed an interactive experience that allowed the user to delve into the story and characters, controlling their experience but also encouraged to travel further into the world of the opera. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The trailer increased Opera North's visibility in the digital and gaming world, helped to transform perceptions of opera to younger audiences and generated greater ticket sales than a normal (filmed) trailer. |
| URL | https://www.operanorth.co.uk/turn-of-the-screw-%20immersive-trailer/ |
| Title | Musical theatre performance in virtual reality - Mrs Nemo (David Gochfeld) |
| Description | Mrs. Nemo is an original immersive musical performed live in virtual reality as an output from the work of XR Stories Research Fellow David Gochfeld. Using WebXR, audience members can participate either in a VR HMD or on a screen, and can explore the environment and interact with the performers. The piece takes place on the Nautilus submarine, where Captain Nemo's wife tells the audience about her life with the captain, and the submarine is attacked by a giant squid. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Originally created in 2021, several additional shows were presented in 2022, including a performance for the Sound and Music for Immersive Storytelling Conference in York and performances as part of a festival connecting creators, companies and nonprofit organizations all of whom use Mozilla Hubs to stage events. The work reached audience members who had not seen VR performance before; helped demonstrate the utility of WebXR for live events. |
| Title | OffRail immersive VR comedy performance |
| Description | OffRail is an immersive theatre production in VR Chat, performed live by a company of 5 professional improv comedians. The audience participates and helps co-create the story through direct interaction with the performers. The story satirizes the AI industry and the public perceptions of AI, balancing offbeat comedy and a serious message about the effects of generative AI on creative industry workers. XR Stories Research Fellow David Gochfeld co-directed and co-wrote the work. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Gave 10 performances at two international festivals: Raindance and FIVARS. Received honourable mention for "Best Debut" award at Raindance Immersive. Invited to perform as part of XRLive online exhibition (March 2023). Developing into a hybrid show to be performed for audiences both in-person in theatres and online, for comedy and theatre festivals in 2023. |
| URL | https://www.raindanceimmersive.com/offrail-vrchat/ |
| Title | Online Stories |
| Description | An online story premise with associated images and artwork to play with small groups of people |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The development of an app, the playing of a number of stories. |
| URL | https://secretstorynetwork.com/letter-to-the-u-d-o/ |
| Title | ParkVR |
| Description | Interactive VR experience to showcase how existing spaces can be re-imagined for VR using 6-DoF audio, interactivity and environmental storytelling. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | None registered at present |
| Title | Projects of Worth: Meaningful experience within videogames - Los (Jenna Ng) |
| Description | First-person walking sim videogame. Output from XR Stories Studentship. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | n/a |
| Title | Protopian Tales - The Neon Pack |
| Description | The Neon Pack is a Protopian Tale directed by XR Stories Research Fellow Nick Bax, commissioned by Hope Works and match-funded by XR Stories. A fully-immersive VR journey, the experience involves a ghostly visit to a music venue, a magical taxi ride home and a surreal spectacle on the decks of a brutalist housing estate. This 360 animated piece by Human interprets the three scenes from an original short story by Nick Bax, featuring VR design and animation by Dan Fleetwood, with additional design by Michaela White and an original soundtrack by 96 Back on CPU Records. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | With this project we reached a new audience, many of whom are not typically interested in immersive experiences but were drawn by the association with the live music venue (Hope Works) and the musician involved in the project (96 Back). It is our belief that this unique immersive experience will generate genuine excitement and enthusiasm from a wide and diverse demographic toward future XR content and creativity. Hope Works have a strict remit in terms of community, diversity and opportunity that was integral to their DCMS funding (administered by Art Council England) and the projects that they commission, and this was reflected in this project, the work we produced and the audience it was intended for. Subsequently shown at the BEYOND Conference 2022, Cardiff. |
| URL | http://www.theneonpack.com |
| Title | R&D Pilot Project: What is Love (University of York, M.Ursu) |
| Description | 'What is Love' (WIL) is a 20 min interactive film recounting the story of the relationship between Amelia, a talented dancer who aims to become professional, and Jack, a software engineer. As they work in opposite time zones, their relationship happens mainly through a digital media platform, on which they have an artificially intelligent agent, Zee, who acts as a a confidant, friend and butler, and who manages the interactions between them. The relationship enters a crisis, Zee has to take some challenging decisions and the viewers can influence the decisions Zee takes. The film was realised as an interactive exhibit. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | Through this, the company who produced the film - Symbolism Studios - were able to position themselves as experts in interactive film and in digital storytelling in general. Symbolism Studios has ceased to operate but has morphed into a new company, Flaime.ai, which targets interactive narrative experiences for advertisement. |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/tfti/news-events/events/2018/york-mediale-2018--what-is-love-_28.9.18/ |
| Title | R&D Project Thunkd Games Personasmith - Videogame |
| Description | Branching narrative videogame. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project - Flood - MR experience (Megaverse) |
| Description | Immersive mixed reality play, using VR to place audiences members directly in the story to have agency in the narrative. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/655417190/2028da045b |
| Title | R&D Project - Monoliths VR Prototype (Pilot Theatre) |
| Description | Immersive VR theatre experience exploring the work of local northern writers & poets. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project AI Fan Along - Prototype |
| Description | Short video demonstrating the prototype AI voice interaction. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/515463151 |
| Title | R&D Project Archive to AR |
| Description | AR tablet based game prototype for engaging audiences with museum content. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project Awesome Animals SafARi - Prototype |
| Description | Short video demonstrating the prototype functionality. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/556621859 |
| Title | R&D Project BD Stories |
| Description | Live immersive performance mobile experience prototype. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project Block - App prototype (Megaverse) |
| Description | App prototype. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project Charisma |
| Description | Playable interactive screen prototype. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project Exploring Projection Mapped Games |
| Description | Three Prototype Projection Mapped Games. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project Grains of Recollection - VR prototype (Studio McGuire) |
| Description | VR experience, immersive storytelling, bringing to life physical art pieces into VR. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project INTERCHANGE - Mixed Reality experience |
| Description | Mixed reality experience. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project Icarus VP Demo (Northern Ballet/Backstage Academy) |
| Description | Proof of concept for location-based immersive ballet, using motion captured dancers, games engine world-building and LED volume screens. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project Into-Visible - VR prototype (Jin Craven) |
| Description | VR storytelling prototype. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project Live By The Sword - Videogame prototype |
| Description | Published video game incorporating developed dynamic difficulty adjustment functionality. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| URL | https://store.steampowered.com/app/1363210/Live_by_the_Sword_Tactics/ |
| Title | R&D Project NDEVER - Fulldome Unity prototype (Live Cinema) |
| Description | Using Unity to bring more creative possibilities to Fulldome immersive cinematic presentation. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project Old Jim's Library - VR Videogame prototype (Fierce Kaiju) |
| Description | Short playable VR video game. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project Protopian Tales |
| Description | Playable VR film. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCIQW8AS494 |
| Title | R&D Project Sea to Sea |
| Description | Proof of concept app for android devices that uses GPS data to trigger narrative when using the Sea to Sea route, 360 film. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project Space, Time and Streets in the Sky - 360 experience (Human Studio) |
| Description | An immersive experience which provides people around the world with an opportunity to see Sheffield's 'Streets in the Sky' for themselves and hear real-life stories of those that live there. A collaboration between Human Studio and the University of York, commissioned by XR Stories and produced by XR Stories Research Fellow Nick Bax. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Development of new IP. Selected by Immerse UK for exhibiting at the BEYOND Conference 2022, Cardiff. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjM8fO9pY38 |
| Title | R&D Project Storyland - Prototype (Cooperative Innovations) |
| Description | Short video demonstrating the prototype functionality and Playable VR app prototype. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rorYCZeeyo |
| Title | R&D Project The Burning Room |
| Description | The Burning Room - VR Videogame prototype. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project The Invited |
| Description | AR Pop-Up Book Prototype. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project The Tell Tale Rooms (Tyke Films) |
| Description | VR story experience. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project Think Twice - VR prototype (Cosmo Square Films) |
| Description | VR storytelling prototype. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project Trumpet |
| Description | Immersive digital performance prototype. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project eSports Audience Response System (EARS) - UX design and base functionaility |
| Description | App prototype. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D Project: Box in the Attic (University of York, M.Ursu) |
| Description | Box in the Attic (BITA) is a prototype interactive podcast, implemented as an app. It is based on a huge set of recordings of someone who was central to the music industry in the States in the late sixties and early seventies (e.g. when Bob Marley raised to fame). Through interaction, it allows listeners to mark elements of interest and the story takes routes in the story space that best respond to the viewers' interests |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Both companies involved in the project have acquired a better understanding of the opportunities and challenges for developing such new forms of interactive podcasts and intend to seek further funding to develop the concept into products. They regard the prototype developed in the project as essential to further pitches for funding. |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/box-in-the-attic/ |
| Title | R&D Project: Ghosts in the Machine (University of York, H. Daffern) |
| Description | Interactive immersive 'trailer' for Opera North's production of Turn of the Screw. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | https://www.operanorth.co.uk/turn-of-the-screw-immersive-trailer/ |
| Title | R&D Project: Mind Hopping (University of York, J. Rees-Jones) |
| Description | Jorvik Viking 360 Video Experience and Playground of Possibilities (in development). 360 virtual exploration of a playground, incorporating original songs, animations, stories and puzzles. Scenes from 'The Great Beyond', specifically shot with the 'Mind Hopping' technique. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | N/a |
| URL | https://www.vidaveo.com/ |
| Title | R&D Project: Persona - Absent Sitters (University of York, J. Wells and B. Eyes) |
| Description | This was an online 'immersive' audio-visual performance with pre-rendered, as well as live, audio-visual elements. The audience members were visible to each other and responses to events in the piece (e.g. sudden changes in lighting) were visible from their different locations, creating a strong sense of integration even though the performance was experienced 'at distance'. 3D audio was delivered binaurally to headphones. Audiences were briefed prior to the performance and surveyed afterwards for their responses. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | A'proof of concept exploration of using commonly used and available technology (e.g. headphones, Zoom) to create an engaging and immersive experience with very positive audience responses and reviews. It has informed how a more bespoke and mixed delivery system/environment that will be of interest to a wide range of festivals, organisations and venues. |
| URL | https://yorkmediale.com/events/absent-sitters/ |
| Title | R&D Project: Rise in the Tide of the Humber (University of Hull, D. Mundy) |
| Description | A 360 VR film showcasing the VR storyworld produced between BetaJester and the University of Hull |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Currently at 743 views on YouTube and also presented at Freedom Festival 4-6 September 2020 and the Earth Arcade stand in the Water Line Summit's V:Fairs |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyLkIpEPIEA |
| Title | R&D Project: Secret Story Network (Leeds Beckett University, A. Zaluczkowska) |
| Description | New online role-playing stories for the Secret Story Network |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | New players for the game. |
| URL | https://secretstorynetwork.com/ |
| Title | R&D Projext Vital Stories - Twitch branching narrative demo (Tanya Vital) |
| Description | Branching narrative experience on Twitch, where viewers can engage with the story through Twitch widgets to vote on narrative decisions and engage with the actors via the chat functionality. The piece also uses cross-device storytelling to engage with the audience to complete games and tasks which help unlock the story. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | R&D The Happiness Project / The Archive - Game prototype (Pilot Theatre) |
| Description | Playable prototype game. Output from XR Stories R&D Project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Development of new IP |
| Title | Remember Me VR Experience |
| Description | Following XR Stories support, artist Emma Osman developed an interactive VR experience showcasing those who have died due to racism. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The experience was showcased at the Black XR Network event |
| URL | https://stayhappening.com/e/black-xr-network-x-digital-catapult-immersive-tech-the-rise-and-future-E... |
| Title | Secret Story Network Storytelling app |
| Description | A story telling application for use in role playing |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The app has been used for work in mental health and in learning situations |
| URL | https://secretstorynetwork.com/ |
| Title | Sheffield AR experience - Look Up |
| Description | A bespoke augmented reality (AR) artwork which interacts with a specific building in Sheffield city centre and is viewable on a mobile device via the Look Up app. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The project was promoted by Sheffield City Council and well received by visitors to the city, gaining considerable attention on social media and a feature in WIRED magazine. |
| URL | https://www.welcometosheffield.co.uk/look-up-sheffield/ |
| Title | SuperCharging Audio Storytelling - Planet Xerilia |
| Description | VR experience in which the listener can freely explore 8 acoustic environments to uncover the story of a lost civilisation. Output from XR Stories Research project. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Basis for new methodologies in the creation of space and storytelling in VR. These methodologies are now in the process of being published in journals and proceedings. |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/supercharging-audio-storytelling-3d-audio-in-virtual-reality/ |
| Title | The Abandoned Library - VR Experience |
| Description | Following funding and support from XR Stories, Dreaming Methods developed a new VR experience that combines literature, spoken word and film |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The creation of the experience formed the centrepiece of an art exhibition in Wakefield. The completed VR experience has been accepted into international festivals |
| URL | https://dreamingmethods.com/portfolio/the-abandoned-library/ |
| Title | The Chime Hours - VR Immersive Experience |
| Description | Following XR Stories funding and support, Lord Whitney developed a new immersive experience that combines live action theatre with explorable, multiplayer Virtual Reality. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | None registered at present |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/848647182 |
| Title | The Gyre web app & projection mapped live performance |
| Description | Web app & projection mapped live performance |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Development of new IP and content through the creation of a new digital artefact to support a regional business in developing their XR skills through R&D. |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/grant/the-climate-change-challenge/ |
| Title | The Rising: Motion-controlled game |
| Description | Motion-controlled game |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Development of new IP and content through the creation of a new digital artefact focusing on aspects of accessibility. |
| Title | Trailer for Smyths Toys |
| Description | A commercial for Smyths Toys UK, created by Battle Stories following XR Stories support, utilising new techniques surrounding 3D scans of toys |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | The commercial formed part of Smyths marketing campaign |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpewLJ4hIqU |
| Title | Veiled Reality - storytelling websites |
| Description | Following funding and support from XR Stories, Carbon Imagineering created two websites for their Veiled Reality project, an interactive story on the future of the veil and hijab. One website details the project story universe and technology experiments, and the second details a fictional company within the story's universe. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | None registered at present |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/carbonimagineering.com/veiledreality/story |
| Title | Video Examples from: Creating Audio Object-focused Acoustic Environments for Room-Scale Virtual Reality |
| Description | Video recordings illustrating the issues and possible solutions mentioned in the paper. Please use headphones when watching the videos. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | These files were viewed 134 times, and downloaded 105 times. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/6616581 |
| Title | Video Examples from: Establishment and Implementation of Guidelines for Narrative Audio-based Room-scale Virtual Reality using Practice-based Methods |
| Description | This video accompanies our paper: Popp, C. and Murphy, D.T., "Establishment and Implementation of Guidelines for Narrative Audio-based Room-scale Virtual Reality using Practice-based Methods", held at the 2022 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality. Room-scale Virtual Reality (VR) presents sound designers with new challenges to tell stories with audio in games with player-driven narratives. These challenges arise from the player moving in and interacting with the virtual environment. The paper performs a small scoping review of VR/non-VR games and associated literature to identify issues and solutions to the placement of speech-based audio using practice-based research methods. The review leads to the proposition of design guidelines and strategies for their implementation. The paper advocates that each instance of speech-based audio should be short, interactive, and complemented by non-speech audio. Furthermore, each instance's spatial, interactive, visual, aural, and narrative representation should be considered in combination. The paper also suggests that 3D-binaural audio informed by physics can aid storytelling and make virtual environments player-responsive. The paper is part of the research project SuperCharging Audio Storytelling: 3D Audio in Virtual Reality, funded by UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) XR Stories Creative Industries Cluster project, grant no. AH/S002839/1. More information about the project can be found at XR Stories. Firelight Technologies Pty Ltd and Unity Technologies kindly provided non-commercial licenses for research purposes as part of this research project. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | These files were viewed 52 times, and downloaded 6 times. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/6940269 |
| Title | Your Heritage, Your Story interactive documentary (i-doc) |
| Description | The creative output is an interactive documentary (i-doc) that presents video stories exploring what personal heritage means from those who have immigrated to the UK. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Those who watched the two stories on the platform have asked if there would be more included in the future as they are interested in watching more such stories. |
| URL | https://yourheritageyourstory.github.io/ |
| Title | Your heritage, your story |
| Description | Interactive documentary including stories co-created with participants in the research project for the purpose of widening engagement in archaeology |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | None yet |
| URL | https://yourheritageyourstory.github.io/ |
| Description | Key Findings continue to be collated but more narrative data focused on case studies and benefits is available from AHRC via our Annual and Quarterly Reports, some of which has been published recently via UKRI and is available at: https://www.discover.ukri.org/research-and-innovation-powering-the-creative-industries/ Additional reports and relevant publications are available from our own website: https://xrstories.co.uk/about/publications/ |
| Exploitation Route | This project is currently active and outcomes from this funding as used by others are still being collated. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Government Democracy and Justice Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/ |
| Description | XR Stories (Creative Media Labs) have started to leverage this award and the activities we are engaging with to generate impact that extends beyond the original remit of the project. We have been able to secure additional direct funding to support our research and industry engagement with the creative industries in our city, region and nationally. This includes an additional £10m of direct investment from diverse sources including BBC R&D, regional European Structural and Investment Funds, the Higher Education Infrastructure Fund, EPSRC, AHRC and Research England (see Further Funding). We have conducted research into our regional creative industries that is now being used as an evidence base to leverage further investment for our activities in this area, for both the University of York, City of York Council and our regional LEP (York and North Yorkshire, now Combined Authority). This evidence has also been used to evidence the impact of the Creative Industries Cluster Partnership investment in our region by the UKRI Creative Industries Advisory Group to DCMS as published in the 2023 Sector Vision for the Creative Industries, the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee, and other key stakeholders. We are further using the leverage of XR Stories and related ERDF and Research England funding to build influence and engagement with our other local authorities and regional policy stakeholders through our core R&D activity, as well as our related skills development and business support agendas, and building links to other key regional activities and initiatives through our partner Screen Yorkshire. This is especially the case in 2024 as York and North Yorkshire becomes a Combined Authority supported by an elected Mayor. XR Stories has been used as a flagship project for the City of York as part of its UNESCO designation as a City of Media Arts in its report to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network Secretariat demonstrating how York has used its cultural and creative assets towards the global objective of sustainable urban development. We are networking across and engaging with the creative screen industries sector across our region and nationally (See Engagement Activities) and so developing capacity and demand for R&D within our creative industries cluster. This has resulted in a number of key collaborative partnership projects across our region (see Collaborations and Partnerships), which will in turn result in both academic and creative outputs as well as economic impacts. Our impact is helping to reshape the creative sector in our city and region through the development of the XR Stories R&D Lab that was launched in June 2022, a space for creative industries engagement, research, development and collaboration and this will help to drive economic growth and jobs, directly through the coordinated investment secured to date, and indirectly through the activities that will be supported in this space. XR Stories is beginning to gain wider international traction, through the AHRC Global Partners initiative and through our own activities, including, to date, one international internship and key partnerships with WarnerMedia (USA), Sky/Comcast (UK/USA), Bang and Olufsen (Denmark), and ITV Studios (UK). XR Stories was a founding partner of the ImmerseUK (now the Innovate UK Immersive Tech Network) and the Director sits on the advisory board, and has, in addition been appointed to the AHRC Infrastructure Advisory Group (IAG) and the related CoSTAR Programme Board that emerged as a consequence of the activities of the AHRC IAG; the National Science and Media Museum (part of the Science Museums Group) Advisory Board and the advisory board for their new Sound and Vision Galleries; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Various members of our research team are also acting in various advisory capacities for Government, industry, and creative industries sector more generally. To date (March 2024) XR Stories has managed a portfolio of 114 SME-led collaborative R&D projects working across 8 regional universities with the University of York as the major hub, 224 companies, 73 academic researchers together with an internship programme across our region that has supported 80+ individuals to work with 50 creative industries organisations, and engagement with 600+ companies. This has resulted in £3.5m invested in industry-led collaborative R&D and £25.7m of leveraged co-investment. XR Stories has added £6.6m in turnover for Yorkshire and Humber screen industries companies that have worked with us, and is expected to create or maintain 543 jobs in this sector of the creative industries up to the end of 2023, due to "XR Stories being the leading centre for [creative R&D] in Yorkshire and Humber and this activity being complementary to other growth drivers". This is evidenced in our XR Stories Economic Impact Analysis Report by BOP Consulting: https://xrstories.co.uk/publication/xr-stories-economic-impact-analysis-report/ The summative assessment report related to our associated ERDF R&D Lab activties: https://xrstories.co.uk/publication/xr-stories-creative-media-labs-summative-assessment-report/ Additional evaluation of ONS data for the growth of businesses in our region: https://xrstories.co.uk/publication/economic-growth-impact-analysis/ And our end of project report: https://xrstories.co.uk/publication/xr-stories-and-sign-end-of-project-report/ A video summary of XR Stories' highlights and achievements is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAFTDH2OkwA A video summary of what XR Stories offers to our region and sector is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knX9v-G7Lys&t=25s |
| First Year Of Impact | 2020 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | Citation in House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee inquiry "A creative future" |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5803/ldselect/ldcomm/125/125.pdf |
| Description | Citation in Parliamentary Office for Science and technology's report, on The impact of digital technology on arts and culture in the UK |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/XR-Futures-Report.pdf |
| Description | Contribution to the Northern Creative Corridors Workshop: Innovation |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.thersa.org/press/releases/2023/11/grand-coalition-formed-to-create-a-northern-creative-c... |
| Description | Contribution to: Creative Industries Sector Vision: A joint plan to drive growth, build talent and develop skills, Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport by Command of His Majesty June 2023 CP 863 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | This data in part contributed to securing funding for the CoSTAR programme that will, for the first time, provide researchers, companies and institutions across the UK with the infrastructure they need to conduct world-class research and development (R&D) in screen and performance technology. CoSTAR will support the design, development and creation of state-of-the-art facilities, resources and expertise to underpin the long-term competitiveness of the UK's screen and performance sectors. Established with £75.6 million of funding and delivered by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the CoSTAR national network comprises a National Lab, three Network Labs and a Foresight Lab and was announced alongside the government's Creative Industries Sector Vision in June 2023. It is funded through UK Research and Innovation's Infrastructure Fund, which supports the facilities, equipment and resources that are essential for researchers and innovators to do groundbreaking work. The CoSTAR network includes: CoSTAR National Lab; CoSTAR Live Lab; CoSTAR Realtime Lab; CoSTAR Screen Lab; CoSTAR Foresight Lab |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1162... |
| Description | Evidence submission to DCMS (University of York, J. Swords) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://screen-network.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The-Impact-of-COVID-19-on-the-Screen-Indust... |
| Description | Membership of DCMS College of Experts. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/dcms-college-of-experts |
| Description | Ofcom Object-based media report, September 2021. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.ofcom.org.uk/research-and-data/technology/general/object-based-media |
| Description | R&D Project: Secret Story Network (Leeds Beckett University, A. Zaluczkowska) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | No Comment |
| URL | https://www.secretstorynetwork.com |
| Description | Written evidence submitted to British Film and High-End Television consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Evidence has helped to deliver further funding through tax credits for relevant sectors of the creative industries in HM Government March 2024 budget statement. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-delivers-lower-taxes-more-investment-and-better-public-services-in-budget-for-long-term-growth |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evidence/3201/ |
| Description | Written submission to Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (led by NESTA), the 'Good Work Review' - Quality and Working Practice in the Creative Industries. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://pec.ac.uk/research-reports/good-work-review |
| Description | Written submission to UK Parliament's Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy Committee on Post-pandemic economic growth: UK labour markets - The UK Screen Industries Labour Market. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/109573/pdf/ |
| Description | Aspect (Research England's Connecting Capability Fund) |
| Amount | £23,006 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | BBC R&D: PhD Studentship - Context Aware Personalised Audio Experiences |
| Amount | £8,049 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | BBC R&D: PhD Studentship - Leveraging new AI audio analysis and generation procedures for XR creative workflows |
| Amount | £8,049 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | Broadcast Futures |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Description | CoSTAR Live Lab |
| Amount | £4,523,531 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/Y001079/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2023 |
| End | 03/2029 |
| Description | Creative Media Labs |
| Amount | £658,052 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Creative affordances of orchestrated devices for immersive and interactive audio and audio-visual experiences |
| Amount | £22,915 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | Enhancing Audio Description II: Implementing accessible personalised and inclusive film and television experiences for visually impaired audiences |
| Amount | £815,491 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/V015583/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 11/2025 |
| Description | HEIF Engagement and Strategy Funding |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 07/2023 |
| Description | HEIF Engagement and Strategy Funding |
| Amount | £40,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Description | OTHER EYES: Understanding the past through bioarchaeology and digital media |
| Amount | £180,165 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | AH/V000896/1 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | Participatory Research Fund |
| Amount | £3,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2023 |
| End | 06/2023 |
| Description | RGS-IBG Small Research Grants |
| Amount | £1,533 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | SRG 03.23 |
| Organisation | Royal Geographical Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2023 |
| End | 06/2023 |
| Description | Research England Quality-Related Research Strategic Priorities Funding |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Rising Tide of Humber: Using digital tools to engage AQA schools with historical flooding |
| Amount | £1,461 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ferens Education Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 07/2023 |
| Description | ScreenSkills Mentoring Fund |
| Amount | £12,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | ScreenSkills |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| End | 04/2021 |
| Description | StoryFutures Academy R&D Bootcamp Scheme -- project title: Hybrid Immersive Live Performance |
| Amount | £11,955 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 04/2023 |
| Description | SuperCharging Audio Storytelling |
| Amount | £99,441 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 07/2021 |
| Description | The Creative Media Research and Knowledge Exchange Hub (Creat:KE) |
| Amount | £4,899,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | UKRI Global Partners Initiative Pilot Project, Immersive 5G Futures |
| Amount | £274,033 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 11/2021 |
| Description | University of York EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) |
| Amount | £19,679 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | XR Network+ : Virtual Production in the Digital Economy |
| Amount | £3,324,729 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W020602/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2027 |
| Description | XR Stories Engagement Activities |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | York St. John Grant Primer fund |
| Amount | £4,995 (GBP) |
| Organisation | York St John University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2023 |
| Title | Acoustics, Audibility and Political Culture in the House of Commons, 1800-34 |
| Description | This dataset includes the auralization results obtained from the acoustic models of the House of Commons in 1800-34, as part of the research with the homonymous paper submitted in the special issue "Parliamentary History Journal" (first submission September 2023). The auralization results represent the perceived result from the acoustic models for the two discussed scenarios (full-occupied and half-full-occupied House of Commons). We present the results from 3 different speakers at 5 listening positions as shown in the images. The anechoic sample is an excerpt of Henry Beaufoy's speech to the House of Commons in 1792 on the subject of the slave trade, performed by John Cooper (co-author) in the anechoic chamber at the Audiolab, University of York. The perceived differences and similarities of the recorded/simulated spaces as heard in these audio files help to further verify the results of the acoustic parameters presented in this paper. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | No Impacts As Yet |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10158715 |
| Title | Dataset of Co-located Multi-device Audio Experience |
| Description | This dataset contains the survey responses obtained from audio practitioners, professionals and creatives on co-located multi-device audio experiences, in the form of a .csv file. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The creation of this dataset resulted in the development of a set of design dimensions for understanding and characterising multi-device audio experiences as described in the two associated papers (see e.g. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12157512 and https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/190350/1/DG_AES_AVAR_2022_Green_Open_Access_Version.pdf) The public release of the dataset is aid other researchers exploring these particular experiences. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/6839250 |
| Title | House of Commons - Acoustic Reconstruction 1820-34 |
| Description | This dataset includes the Impulse Responses, Auralization results and acoustic models of spaces used for the research on the "Acoustic Reconstruction of the House of Commons, c. 1820-1834". The data is associated with the homonymous paper submitted in the special issue "Acoustics, Soundscape and Sounds as Intangible Heritage", Acoustics (ISSN 2624-599X) (January 2023). Some of the results were presented in a paper titled "Architectural acoustics and parliamentary debate: Exploring the acoustics of the UK House of Commons Chamber", in the Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium: The Acoustics of Ancient Theatres (July 2022). The dataset contains: Impulse responses and Auralization results from: Convovation House, Oxford Divinity School, Oxford modern House of Commons, Westminster Palace Holywell Music Room, Oxford York Guildhall Council Chamber ODEON model of the House of Commons in 1820-1834 ODEON model of the House of Commons in 1820-1834 Models from ODEON and CATT Acoustic of the simulated space. The in situ measurements were carried out by research teams of the Audiolab, University of York from 2017-2018, and impulse responses can be also found at OpenAIR library . Contact: foteinouagl@gmail.com or aglaia.foteinou@york.ac.uk |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The database has been viewed 180 times and downloaded 52 times and was published to support the accompanying paper available at https://doi.org/10.3390/acoustics5010012 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/7560884 |
| Title | Open Acoustic Impulse Response Library (OpenAIR) |
| Description | A collection of modelled and measured acoustic data from locations across the world, with data available in a variety of spatial audio formats. Also supported with a set of online anechoic recordings and acoustic analysis tools. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2010 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This database has formed part of a number of further AHRC projects: WEb Audio Virtual Environment Rendering (WEAVER): Online Virtual Acoustics for Sonic Art, Digital Heritage, and Broadcast (AH/N00356X/1) Listening to the Commons: The Sounds of Debate and the Experience of Women in Parliament c. 1800 (AH/P012094/1) It has been licensed to three audio software companies under a Creative Commons License and included in their commercial releases: Ableton Live 9 Digital Audio Workstation Software Presonus Studio One Digital Audio Workstation Software Reason Studios Reason Digital Audio Workstation software It was further licensed to the following under a Creative Commons License to support their own R&D: iZotope Software it has been deployed across a series of video racing games by UK developer Codemasters. Originally released in 2014 for Microsoft Windows, Sony Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms, and since ported to Linux, Mac OS X (2015), iOS (2017), Nintendo Switch and Android (2019). Steamspy suggests that there are 500,000-1,000,000 users across the main gaming platforms, with the iOS platform reporting more than 100,000 paid users within 12 months of release. The research contribution is acknowledged in the game's credits under Sponsors and Outsource Companies. The research has been further used in DiRT Rally (2016), with more than 800,000 sales, DiRT Rally 2 (2019), with more than 1,000,000 users, and the forthcoming Dirt 5. |
| URL | http://www.openairlib.net/ |
| Title | Speech Intelligibility Versus Congruency: User Preferences of the Acoustics of Virtual Reality Game Spaces. Supplementary Data. |
| Description | Abstract 3D audio spatializers for Virtual Reality (VR) can use the acoustic properties of the surfaces of a visualised game space to calculate a matching reverb. However, this approach could lead to reverbs that impair the tasks performed in such a space, such as listening to speech-based audio. Sound designers would then have to alter the room's acoustic properties independently of its visualisation to improve speech intelligibility, causing audio-visual incongruency. As user expectation of simulated room acoustics regarding speech intelligibility in VR has not been studied, this study asked participants to rate the congruency of reverbs and their visualisations in 6-DoF VR while listening to speech-based audio. The participants compared unaltered, matching reverbs with sound-designed, mismatching reverbs. The latter features improved D50s and reduced RT60s at the cost of lower audio-visual congruency. Results suggest participants preferred improved reverbs only when the unaltered reverbs had comparatively low D50s or excessive ringing. Otherwise, too dry or too reverberant reverbs were disliked. The range of expected RT60s depended on the surface visualisation. Differences in timbre between the reverbs may not affect preferences as strongly as shorter RT60s. Therefore, sound designers can intervene and prioritise speech intelligibility over audio-visual congruency in acoustically challenging game spaces. The article under the same name can be found in the journal Virtual Worlds. Repository information This repository contains supplementary materials to support the article. Details of the experiment process and the results of the data analysis can be found in the article. "Aggregated Experiment Data.zip" Contains the aggregated experiment data as Excel workbooks. Each workbook contains documentation explaining the workbook's purpose and data types used. "Speech stimuli.zip" Contains audio recordings of the stimuli used in the experiment captured at the listener's default position within the modelled room. Three rooms, labelled by surface material, are used in 4 versions, resulting in a total of 12 stimuli. Please be aware that the listener could move within the room and thereby adjust the level of direct sound. The audio is captured from Unity directly via a virtual audio loopback device using an RME Babyface sound card. The files are stored in the WAV format at 48 kHz@24 bits, stereo. They are recorded in binaural audio without headphone calibration. Binauralisation is achieved via Google Resonance Audio. Please use headphones to listen to them. The raw, un-reverberated, monaural speech test signal is also included. "IRs.zip" Contains the binaural 2-channel impulse responses of the modelled rooms generated by a Dirac impulse captured at the listener's default position within the modelled rooms in binaural audio. Please be aware that the listener could move within the room. Three rooms, labelled by abbreviated surface material, are used in 4 versions with three measurements each, resulting in a total of 36 measurements. The abbreviations are Blk = Concrete Blocks, Mrb = Marble, Fab = Fabric. The audio is captured from Unity directly via a virtual audio loopback device using an RME Babyface sound card. The files are stored in the WAV format at 48 kHz@24 bits, stereo. They are recorded in binaural audio without headphone calibration. Binauralisation is achieved via Google Resonance Audio. Please use headphones to listen to them. The archive also contains a TXT file documenting the whole capturing process of the IRs and a WAV file with the impulse used to create the IRs. "Room Parameters.zip" Contains CSV files describing the room acoustical parameters of the rooms measured in IRs.zip. Each room's version has its own CSV file, resulting in a total of 12 files. The three measurements appear as separate channels. Angelo Farina's Aurora tools have been used to calculate these parameters following ISO 3382-1:2009. The archive also contains a TXT file documenting the whole capturing process of the IRs. "Screenshots.zip" Contains screenshots of each experiment's stage, including all stimuli. Only one question of the questionnaires is captured here for brevity. The screenshots are captured within Unity using a non-VR camera. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2024 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This data has been viewed 22 times and downloaded 9 times as of 8/3/2024. No other impact as yet. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10518138 |
| Title | St Stephen's and House of Commons' acoustic models |
| Description | Acoustic models of the historical spaces of St Stephen's Chapel and House of Commons, 1801-1834 have been created as part of this research, based on historical evidence of the period. The models themselves as well as the computer generated audio examples of these spaces offering us the opportunity to experience their sound as it might have been in the past, while give us precious information on the social, cultural and political aspects of that period. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The database has been viewed 180 times and downloaded 52 times and was published to support the accompanying paper available at https://doi.org/10.3390/acoustics5010012 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/records/7560885 |
| Title | Video Data: Examples of Audio Objects in 6-Degree of Freedom Virtual Reality |
| Description | The collection of data consists of several screencasts that highlight issues and solutions regarding object-based spatial audio in Virtual Reality environments that allow the user's movement in 6 degrees of freedom and interactivity, i.e. game-like VR experiences. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The database has been viewed 93 times and was published to support the accompanying paper available at https://doi.org/10.3390/app12147306 |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/6616582 |
| Description | BBC Audio R&D |
| Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Department | BBC Research & Development |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The researcher working on the WEAVER project was seconded to the BBC in Salford/London for three months when developing skills in relation to the underlying web audio technology we were developing. We have helped members of their own team to work with York Theatre Royal in filming, recording and data capture to help with the BBC Venue Explorer project as a test case study. We have made software publicly available that both parties have made contribution to. This has now resulted in a new EPSRC/BBC ICASE Studentship, starting October 2018. |
| Collaborator Contribution | BBC hosted and supervised our researcher for 3-months between Salford and London. They have provided guidance and development in use of the web audio framework for development work, and contributed towards the publicly available software we have developed as well as co-authored a conference paper with us. We are now co-supervising a PhD student together. |
| Impact | The discussions around this project resulted in the following successful funded application: WEb Audio Virtual Environment Rendering (WEAVER): Online Virtual Acoustics for Sonic Art, Digital Heritage, and Broadcast, AHRC, AH/N00356X/1 As well as a contribution towards: The Digital Creativity Hub, EPSRC, EP/M023265/1 Conference paper: "OpenAirLib: A JavaScript library for the Acoustics of Spaces" We have secured further funding as noted above through a EPSRC/BBC ICASE PhD studentship which has in turn resulted in a conference paper not as yet reported elsewhere: Turner, D., Pike, C., and Murphy, D.T., "Content matching for sound generating objects within a visual scene using a computer vision approach", Proc. of the 148th AES Convention, Paper 10375, Jun. 2-4, Online, 2020. BBC are also now a partner on our new AHRC Creative Media Labs project (Started October 2018), reference: AH/S002839/1 and this has resulted on three co-funded PhD students and one Masters by Research student. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration, involving digital creativity, electronic engineering, user experience design, acoustics, music and audio technology, as well as creative arts practice. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Collaboration with AY-PE Ltd (Extending Storyworlds) |
| Organisation | AY-PE Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to provide support for the delivery of a SIGN funded Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with Dubit Limited (Extending Storyworlds) |
| Organisation | Dubit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to provide support for the delivery of a SIGN funded Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Collaboration with Viridian FX Limited (Guildhall Lab) |
| Organisation | Viridian FX Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories team formally collaborated with ViridianFX, providing staff time, facilities and equipment to understand newly acquired virtual production equipment and related workflows, leading on R&D using these resources. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Production technician partner, sharing knowledge and experience with green-screen technology and integrating that with an LED wall workflow. |
| Impact | External facing workshop with new technology |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Internship Project Delivery Partnership Dubit (2023 Internship Scheme) |
| Organisation | Dubit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partner's application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recuriting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Internship placement provider. Helping to recruit SMEs and contracting them to provide a placement. Helping to recruit students to carry out the internships. |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Internship Project Delivery Partnership Iscraac Community Centre (2022-2023 Internship Scheme) |
| Organisation | Israac Somali Community & Cultural Association |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partner's application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recuriting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Internship placement provider. Helping to recruit SMEs and contracting them to provide a placement. Helping to recruit students to carry out the internships. |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Internship Project Delivery Partnership One to One Development (2023 Internship Scheme) |
| Organisation | One to One Development Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partner's application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recuriting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Internship placement provider. Helping to recruit SMEs and contracting them to provide a placement. Helping to recruit students to carry out the internships. |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Internship project Delivery Partnership Betajester (2022 Internship Scheme) |
| Organisation | BetaJester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partner's application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recuriting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Internship placement provider. Helping to recruit SMEs and contracting them to provide a placement. Helping to recruit students to carry out the internships. |
| Impact | students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership Bellyfeel (x2 interns) (2021-2022 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | Bellyfeel Media Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partner's application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recuriting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SME providing a placement for an XR Stories funded student internship. The partner provides staff time and access to facilities associated with supervising the intern and facilitating them to carry out their internship project |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership Diva Creative (2021-2022 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | Diva Creative |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partner's application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recuriting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SME providing a placement for an XR Stories funded student internship. The partner provides staff time and access to facilities associated with supervising the intern and facilitating them to carry out their internship project |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership Live Cinema UK (2021-2021 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | Live Cinema UK |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partner's application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recuriting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SME providing a placement for an XR Stories funded student internship. The partner provides staff time and access to facilities associated with supervising the intern and facilitating them to carry out their internship project |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership Pilot Theatre (2021-2021 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | Pilot Theatre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partner's application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recuriting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SME providing a placement for an XR Stories funded student internship. The partner provides staff time and access to facilities associated with supervising the intern and facilitating them to carry out their internship project |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership University of Huddersfield (2020-2022 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | University of Huddersfield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partner's application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recuriting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Internship placement provider. Helping to recruit SMEs and contracting them to provide a placement. Helping to recruit students to carry out the internships. |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership York Archaeological Trust (2021-2022 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | York Archaeological Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partner's application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recuriting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SME providing a placement for an XR Stories funded student internship. The partner provides staff time and access to facilities associated with supervising the intern and facilitating them to carry out their internship project |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership with Creative Alchemy One (2020-2021 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | Creative Alchemy One |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partners application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recruiting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time |
| Collaborator Contribution | SME providing an placement for an XR Stories funded student internship. The partner provides staff time and access to facilities associated with supervising the intern and facilitating them to carry out their internship project |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership with Leeds Beckett University (2020-2021 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | Leeds Beckett University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partner's application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recuriting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Internship placement provider. Helping to recruit SMEs and contracting them to provide a placement. Helping to recruit students to carry out the internships. |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership with Megaverse (2 x Interns) (2020-2022 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | Megaverse Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partners application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recruiting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time |
| Collaborator Contribution | SME providing an placement for an XR Stories funded student internship. The partner provides staff time and access to facilities associated with supervising the intern and facilitating them to carry out their internship project |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership with Sheffield Hallam (2020-2021 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | Sheffield Hallam University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partner's application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recuriting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Internship placement provider. Helping to recruit SMEs and contracting them to provide a placement. Helping to recruit students to carry out the internships. |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership with University of Bradford (x3 interns) (2020-2021 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | University of Bradford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partners application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recruiting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Internship placement provider. Helping to recruit SMEs and contracting them to provide a placement. Helping to recruit students to carry out the internships. |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership with University of Leeds (x13 interns) (2020-2022 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partner's application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recuriting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Internship placement provider. Helping to recruit SMEs and contracting them to provide a placement. Helping to recruit students to carry out the internships. |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership with University of Sheffield (x4 interns) (2020-2021 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partner's application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recuriting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Internship placement provider. Helping to recruit SMEs and contracting them to provide a placement. Helping to recruit students to carry out the internships. |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership with Vidaveo (x4 interns) (2020-2023 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | Vidaveo |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partners application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recruiting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time |
| Collaborator Contribution | SME providing an placement for an XR Stories funded student internship. The partner provides staff time and access to facilities associated with supervising the intern and facilitating them to carry out their internship project |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Internship project delivery partnership with York St John University (x9 interns) (2020-2022 Internship scheme) |
| Organisation | York St John University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories internship project. This includes time from the Internships manager to support the partners application for funding from XR Stories and post-award support in helping to find suitable internship opportunities at SMEs and HEIs and recruiting students to carry out the internship. Funding provided from XR Stories internship funds to pay for the intern's time |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Internship placement provider. Helping to recruit SMEs and contracting them to provide a placement. Helping to recruit students to carry out the internships. |
| Impact | Students gained work experience in the XR Sector to support them in their academic studies and future career. Company placement provider gained access to opportunities to enable them to recruit a student to carry out a project for the benefit of the intern and the company. Regional universities were able to provide their students with paid work placement opportunities |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Opera North - CriSS Tool Implementation for Green Season |
| Organisation | Opera North |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The project team has provided workshop training to the audience and marketing teams within Opera North and provided advisory support to the Director of Audiences in the use of the Critical Sustainability Stories tool. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Opera North have adopted and used the Critical Sustainability Stories Tool to inform and shape communications around the company's Green Season of Opera's during autumn of 2023. Impact data is currently being gathered. |
| Impact | Application to AHRC Responsive Mode Impact and Follow on Funding Grant Application by the project team |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Research Collaboration with Bournemouth University (Creative Futures) |
| Organisation | Bournemouth University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to provide support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research project. This includes support from one of more of the XR Stories Investigator Team as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaborator is delivering research into the potential for zero carbon production in film and TV |
| Impact | Research |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Research Collaboration with Loughborough University London (Creative Technologies Mapping) |
| Organisation | Loughborough University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to provide support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research project. This includes support from one of more of the XR Stories Investigator Team as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaborator created a new fixed term Research Associate position (6 months) and provided 50% match funding for this role. The Research Associate delivered research and administrative duties to support a Creative Technologies Mapping Study. |
| Impact | Research report; Two Research Blogs; Presentations; Research Paper. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Research Collaboration with Teeside University (Creative Industries in Peripheral Areas x 2 projects) |
| Organisation | Teesside University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to provide support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research project. This includes support from one of more of the XR Stories Investigator Team as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaborator is delivering two separate research studies on the creative industries in rural areas as well as funding 20% of the Full Economic Cost of each project. |
| Impact | Part 1 has produced a research report (https://xrstories.co.uk/publication/creative-industries-in-the-rural-peripheries/) |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Research Collaboration with University of Leeds (Creative Futures) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to provide support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research project. This includes support from one of more of the XR Stories Investigator Team as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaborator is delivering research about how creative companies can tell better, more robust stories about environmental sustainability |
| Impact | Research |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Research Collaboration with University of Sheffield (Creative Futures) |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to provide support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research project. This includes support from one of more of the XR Stories Investigator Team as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaborator is delivering research into current and future employment challenges for the Y&H screen industries |
| Impact | Research report |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Research Collaboration with University of West England (Creative Futures) |
| Organisation | University of the West of England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to provide support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research project. This includes support from one of more of the XR Stories Investigator Team as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaborator is delivering research into current and future employment challenges for the Y&H screen industries |
| Impact | Research report |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Research Collaboration with York St John (Creative Futures) |
| Organisation | York St John University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to provide support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research project. This includes support from one of more of the XR Stories Investigator Team as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaborator is delivering research about how creative companies can tell better, more robust stories about environmental sustainability |
| Impact | Research |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Research and Development Partnership with Human Studio (Space Time and Streets in the Sky project) |
| Organisation | Human Studio |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Dawn Hadley at the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development Partnership with Live Cinema (In Here, Out There) |
| Organisation | Live Cinema UK |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to provide support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling. |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Research and Development Partnership with Pilot Theatre (Doc Fest) |
| Organisation | Pilot Theatre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to provide support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling. |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Anti(Design Services) Limited (Sea to Sea Project) |
| Organisation | Anti (Design Services) Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partner is Patrick Ingham at Leeds Beckett University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Bellyfeel Media Limited (Secret Story Network project) |
| Organisation | Bellyfeel Media Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Anna Zaluczkowska at Leeds Beckett University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Betajester (EARS project) |
| Organisation | BetaJester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are James Walker, Anders Drachen, and Florian Block at the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Betajester (The Burning Room project) |
| Organisation | BetaJester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Carbon Imagineering (OpenXR 2) |
| Organisation | Carbon Imagineering |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to provide support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. Carbon Imagineering also reported a 10% increase in ethnic diversity among their workforce following their collaboration with XR Stories. |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Carbon-Imagineering (Storycasting BD stories project) |
| Organisation | Carbon Imagineering |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partner is Simon Popple at the University of Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Cooperative Innovations (Storyland Project) |
| Organisation | Cooperative Innovations Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Supervisor is Rebecca Parry at the University of Sheffield. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Cosmosquare Films (Think Twice Project) |
| Organisation | Ultimet Films |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Diva Creative (Digital Meets R&D/Trumpet Project) |
| Organisation | Diva Creative |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Rich Warburton at the University of Bradford. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling. |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Dubbit (BlockoutVR project) |
| Organisation | Dubit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is He Wang at the University of Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Duck Soup Films (Secret Story Network Project) |
| Organisation | Duck Soup Films |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Anna Zaluczkowska at Leeds Beckett University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Elizabeth Bernholz Trading as Random Music Management (Persona project) |
| Organisation | Random Music Management Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Jez Wells and Ben Eyes from the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Fettle Animation (Awesome Animals Safari project) |
| Organisation | Fettle Animation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Carlton Reeve at the University of Bradford and Liz Chesworth and Rebecca Parry (RP) at the University of Sheffield (UoS). RP applied to the UoS Higher Education Impact Funding for funding for a follow on project. £14,000 was obtained and Fettle Animation contributed a further £14,000 of in-kind staff time to the development and creation of a new animated series, linked to Awesome Animals, Floss and Em. Throughout the subsequent year colleagues Dr Liz Chesworth, Dr Fiona Scott and myself have been working with Fettle on R and D for the new animation which aims to enhance the ways in which children's content encourages playfulness. Activities so far have included: 1. A pitch to CMC 'Money Where your Mouth Is' where further support from Wild Brain was won. In this activity UoS researchers helped formulate the pitch and attended in support. 2. R and D visit to Flamingo Land to research animals and make links with potential partners. 3. R and D visits to a local Forest School to focus on movement and outdoor play. 4. R and D activity looking at possible themes and how they have been represented in existing animations. Further activity planned include: 1. 360 filming of the Forest School (also for use in teaching so developing our use of VR in HE) 2. Storyline workshopping - looking at how to enhance playfulness through movement, sound, character design, narrative and settings. 3. A visual account of the project to be created by Fettle for dissemination by UoS and Fettle. 4. Production and promotion of a pilot episode of Floss and Em. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling. Fettle have been the key partner and have led the development of this work with XR Stories and University of Sheffield. UoS and Fettle have worked together on the R&D but they will create the animation and lead on promoting it. |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. There will be an animation for children, an academic publication and a visual account of our collaboration. Multi-disciplinary: Education, Childhood Studies, Design, Creative Media, Children's Film and Television, Animation. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Goodwin Development Trust Trading as Back to Ours (Off screen gaming kit project) |
| Organisation | Goodwin Development Trust Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Jason Hayhurst and Darren Mundy at University of Hull. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with HumanStudio Ltd (Protopian Tales project) |
| Organisation | Human Studio |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Joi Polloi (AI Fan Along project) |
| Organisation | Joi Polloi Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Jenn Chubb at the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Joi Polloi (Change Maker 2 Project) |
| Organisation | Joi Polloi Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Joi Polloi (Change Maker project) |
| Organisation | Joi Polloi Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Andrew Mycock at the University of Huddersfield. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Joi Polloi (Tom Gates & House of the Dragon Experiences Project) |
| Organisation | Joi Polloi Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Kit Monkman Associates (Persona Project) |
| Organisation | Kit Monkman Associates |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Leeds Beckett (Secret Story Network project) |
| Organisation | Leeds Beckett University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Anna Zaluczkowska. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Leeds Beckett University (Sea to Sea project) |
| Organisation | Leeds Beckett University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partner is Patrick Ingham from Leeds Beckett University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Live Cinema (Surround Stories Lab project) |
| Organisation | Live Cinema UK |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Tom Jackson and Scott Palmer at the University of Leeds and Helen Kennedy and Sarah Atkinson from the University of Nottingham. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Louise Malkinson (Secret Story Network Project) |
| Organisation | Louise Malkinson Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Anna Zaluczkowska at Leeds Beckett University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Megaverse (Flood Project) |
| Organisation | Megaverse Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with One to One Development Trust (Demonstrators) |
| Organisation | One to One Development Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to provide support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Pilot Theatre (Monoliths Project) |
| Organisation | Pilot Theatre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Pilot Theatre Limited (The Happiness Project) |
| Organisation | Pilot Theatre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Ben Kirman at the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Prox and Reverie (5G Futures project - Interchange project) |
| Organisation | Prox and Reverie |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding was granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Prox and Reverie (Broadcast Futures Project) |
| Organisation | Prox and Reverie |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Prox and Reverie (Glimmer and Symphony project) |
| Organisation | Prox and Reverie |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Tom Jackson and He Wang at the University of Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Prox and Reverie (Shapeshifter project) |
| Organisation | Prox and Reverie |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Tom Jackson and He Wang at the University of Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Retinize (At Home Project) |
| Organisation | RETìníZE Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partners are Guy Schofield and John Mateer from the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Safe Profile (TRUSTD project) |
| Organisation | Safe Profile Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Gillian Kirkman at the University of Huddersfield. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Sky UK (XR Stories R&D Scheme) |
| Organisation | SKY Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. In this example the XR Stories team acted as the main client relationship manager for the partner, and the means and support by which other partners could respond to the R&D challenge as defined. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling. In this example the partner is leading a challenge that other companies and researchers respond to with support from the XR Stories project. |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Story Futures Academy (Broadcast Futures Project) |
| Organisation | National Film and Television School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. This project was co-created and co-sponsored with this partner with the XR Stories team providing access to key regional partners in addition to direct support in realising the project objectives. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling. Here the project partner is a co-sponsor of the project helping to direct its delivery, with direct and in-kind support. |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Story Futures Academy (Broadcast Futures Project) |
| Organisation | National Science and Media Museum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. In this example the XR Stories team acted as the main client relationship manager for the partner, and the means and support by which other partners could respond to the R&D challenge as defined. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling. In this example the partner is leading a challenge that other companies and researchers respond to with support from the XR Stories project. |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Storypunk Ltd (Box in the Attic project) |
| Organisation | Storypunk Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Marian Ursu at the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Teesside University (Demonstrators) |
| Organisation | Teesside University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to collaborate with Teesside University staff and interns to explore the use of eXtended Reality technologies to develop new immersive or interactive visitor and user experiences for Museums, Galleries and Libraries sectors. |
| Collaborator Contribution | HeritageXR project delivery partner. Organised multiple workshops, recruited and managed interns specialising in animation, VR/AR, app development and video production to explore a proof of concept for Kirkleatham Museum |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with The University of Sheffield (Archive to AR storytelling project) |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partner is Jan Windebank at the University of Sheffield. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Thunkd Games (Personasmith project) |
| Organisation | Thunkd |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with To Play For (5G Futures project - Charisma project) |
| Organisation | Learn to Play |
| Country | Botswana |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Turner Broadcasting System Europe Limited, (5G Futures project) |
| Organisation | Turner Broadcasting System |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Bradford (Awesome Animals Safari project) |
| Organisation | University of Bradford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Carlton Reeve at the University of Bradford and Liz Chesworth and Rebecca Parry at the University of Sheffield. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Bradford (Digital Meets R&D/Trumpet project) |
| Organisation | University of Bradford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Rich Warburton at the University of Bradford. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Huddersfield (Change Maker project) |
| Organisation | University of Huddersfield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Supervisor is Andrew Mycock at the University of Huddersfield. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Huddersfield (TRUSTD project) |
| Organisation | University of Huddersfield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Gillian Kirkman at the University of Huddersfield. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Hull (Off screen gaming kit project) |
| Organisation | University of Hull |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Jason Hayhurst and Darren Mundy. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Leeds (Block XR Scenographic Tool project) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Joslin McKinney at the University of Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Leeds (BlockoutVR project) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is He Wang at the University of Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Leeds (Glimmer and Symphony Project) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Tom Jackson and He Wang at the University of Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Leeds (Shapeshifter project) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Tom Jackson and He Wang at the University of Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Leeds (Storycasting BD stories project) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partner is Simon Popple from University of Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Leeds (Surround Stories Lab project) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Tom Jackson and Scott Palmer at the University of Leeds and Helen Kennedy and Sarah Atkinson from the University of Nottingham. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Leeds (Surround Stories Project) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Tom Jackson and Scott Palmer at the University of Leeds and Helen Kennedy and Sarah Atkinson at the University of Nottingham. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Nottingham (Surround Stories Project) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Helen Kennedy and Sarah Atkinson at the University of Nottingham and Tom Jackson and Scott Palmer at the University of Leeds |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Sheffield (Awesome Animals Safari project) |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Carlton Reeve at the University of Bradford and Liz Chesworth and Rebecca Parry at the University of Sheffield. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Sheffield (Storyland project) |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Rebecca Parry at the University of Sheffield. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with University of Sheffield (XR Storybox project) |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Jessica Bradley, Fiona Bradley, and Rebecca Parry at the University of Sheffield. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Vanitas Arts (Digital Meets R&D/Trumpet project) |
| Organisation | Vanitas Arts |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Rich Warburton at the University of Bradford. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Vidaveo (Mind Hopping Project) |
| Organisation | Vidaveo |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partners are Jon Hook, Paul Ryan and Joe Rees-Jones from University of York. Specifically this was a collaboration with Videoveo around a 360-degree video project and provided knowledge transfer that has enabled them to develop a new strand of their business in this area. The following statement from Adam Gill of Vidaveo illustrates examples of the business and products they have developed: "First, working in collaboration with Merisis Software (based in York Science Park) we developed a prototype of a 360 App for The Port of Tyne, designed to allow potential visitors to pre-visit their physical site, which is normally off-limits to most people and difficult to access even with safety measures in place. The prototype worked out well and we are in discussions with The Port of Tyne authority to decide how it might best be developed for their specific requirements. Talks are around Health & Safety training, documenting the development of their Green Energy site and promoting the use of the port in general. I have also been filming a series of 360 environments for a company near Halifax (Immersive Reality) who specialise in producing physical 360 projection spaces for children with special needs. These are not domes, but rather a unique arrangement of projectors and sensors which allow the experience to be established within an existing space. Immersive Reality are looking at possible applications of the 'Mind Hopping' technique with educational settings. Most recently, I am about to sign a contract with a company based in Sheffield who have ambitions to develop their virtual reality projects in both VR and Projection spaces. I will be working with them to develop this new area and we are already discussing potential uses for 'Mind Hopping'. I cannot disclose any details of this arrangement at the moment, but hope to be in a position to discuss this openly within the next month or so." |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling. Vidaveo have worked with us to co-develop a new storytelling technique called Mindhopping, which we are in the process of documenting as a publication. |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. Key outputs relate to the new business opportunities and projects found by Vidaveo as a consequence of the knowledge transfer in the project. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with Viridian FX (At Home Project) |
| Organisation | Viridian FX Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partners are Guy Schofield and John Mateer from the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with XR Games (XR Storybox project) |
| Organisation | XR Games Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Jessica Bradley, Fiona Bradley, and Rebecca Parry at the University of Sheffield. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with York Archaeological Trust (Demonstrators) |
| Organisation | York Archaeological Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to provide support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development project. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences |
| Start Year | 2023 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with York Media Arts Festival (Persona Project) |
| Organisation | York Media Arts Festival Community Interest Company |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partners are Jez Wells and Ben Eyes from the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and Development partnership with the National Science and Media Museum (Future is Northern) |
| Organisation | National Science and Media Museum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to provide support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research project. This includes support from a creative producer as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Research |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Research and Development project with Megaverse (Block XR Scenographic Tool project) |
| Organisation | Megaverse Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Joslin McKinney at the University fo Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Research and development partnership with BetaJester Ltd (Rising tide of Humber project) |
| Organisation | BetaJester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partners are Steward Mottram, Briony McDonagh and Chris Skinner from University of Hull. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lead partner in XR Stories R&D project. XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and development partnership with Duck Soup Films ('Sh*t we did when we were sad' Project) |
| Organisation | Duck Soup Films |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Marian Usru from the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and development partnership with Freedom Studios (Storycasting BD stories project) |
| Organisation | Freedom Studios |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partner is Simon Popple from University of Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lead partner in XR Stories R&D project. XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and development partnership with IOU Theatre (Sea to Sea Project) |
| Organisation | I O U Theatre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partner is Patrick Ingham from Leeds Beckett University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lead partner in XR Stories R&D project. XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and development partnership with Live Cinema UK (Surround Stories Project) |
| Organisation | Live Cinema UK |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partner is Tom Jackson and Scott Palmer from the University of Leeds and Helen Kennedy and Sarah Atkinson from the University of Nottingham. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lead partner in XR Stories R&D project. XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and development partnership with Revolution Software Limited (Utilising GANS project) |
| Organisation | Revolution Software Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic Partner is Simon Demediuk from the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and development partnership with University of Hull (Rising tide of Humber project) |
| Organisation | University of Hull |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partners are Steward Mottram, Briony McDonagh and Chris Skinner from University of Hull. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and development project with Fierce Kaiju (Old Jims Library project) |
| Organisation | Fierce Kaiju |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partner is Sebastian Deterding from University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lead partner in XR Stories R&D project. XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and development project with National Science and Media Museum (Responsive Interpretive Storytelling project) |
| Organisation | Science Museum Group |
| Department | The Science Museum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partner is Jon Hook from University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partner in XR Stories R&D project. XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and development project with Opera North (Ghosts in the Machine project) |
| Organisation | Opera North |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partner is Helena Daffern from University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lead partner in XR Stories R&D project. XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research and development project with Pilot Theatre (Traitor Project) |
| Organisation | Pilot Theatre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories Research and Development. This includes support from a creative producer and creative technologist as well as communications support in the dissemination of project outputs. Funding granted from XR Stories to the partner to facilitate the delivery of the project. Additionally XR Stories facilitates further partnership with University of York (or other Yorkshire Universities) researchers to bring specific research expertise to the R&D activities with the partner. Academic partner is Guy Schofield from University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | XR Stories Research & Development project delivery partner, delivering an innovative project in interactive and immersive digital storytelling |
| Impact | Production of immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics in Higher Education Organisations and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity and also create opportunities to attract further funding to the region. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Studentship (MSc by Research) partnership with BBC (Personalised Audio AR Project) |
| Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student. Academic Partners are Lauren Ward and Gavin Kearney at the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervior to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Studentship (Masters by Research followed by PhD) partnership with AY-PE (Story Seed project) |
| Organisation | AY-PE Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student, both contributed by the University of York as a direct contribution to the main AHRC funded project. Supervision of the nominated student by academic member of staff. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervior to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Studentship (Masters by Research followed by PhD) partnership with Bang and Olufsen (Exploring Immersion project) |
| Organisation | Bang & Olufsen |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University of York based academic supervisor (Damian Murphy) to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Studentship (Masters by Research) partnership with AY-PE (Story Seed project) |
| Organisation | AY-PE Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student. Academic Partner is Debbie Maxwell at the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervior to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Studentship (Masters by Research) partnership with BBC (Streamlining production workflows project) |
| Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student, both contributed by the University of York as a direct contribution to the main AHRC funded project. Supervision of the nominated student by academic member of staff. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervior to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Studentship (Masters by Research) partnership with Betajester (Digital Storytelling) |
| Organisation | BetaJester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student, both contributed by the University of York as a direct contribution to the main AHRC funded project. Supervision of the nominated student by academic member of staff. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervisor (Colleen Morgan) to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Studentship (Masters by Research) partnership with Council of British Archaeology (Your Heritage Your Story Project) |
| Organisation | Council of British Archaeology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student, both contributed by the University of York as a direct contribution to the main AHRC funded project. Supervision of the nominated student by academic member of staff. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervior to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Studentship (Masters by Research) partnership with Digifish (Interactive Filmmaking) |
| Organisation | Digifish |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student, both contributed by the University of York as a direct contribution to the main AHRC funded project. Supervision of the nominated student by academic member of staff. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervior to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Studentship (Masters by Research) partnership with Kit Monkman Associates (Space, Media, Imagination Project) |
| Organisation | Kit Monkman Associates |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student, both contributed by the University of York as a direct contribution to the main AHRC funded project. Supervision of the nominated student by academic member of staff. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervior to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Studentship (Masters by Research) partnership with New Moon Studios (Lag Free Audio) |
| Organisation | New Moon Studios |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student, both contributed by the University of York as a direct contribution to the main AHRC funded project. Supervision of the nominated student by academic member of staff. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervior to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Studentship (Masters by Research) partnership with Thunkd Games (Immersive Storytelling) |
| Organisation | Thunkd |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student, both contributed by the University of York as a direct contribution to the main AHRC funded project. Supervision of the nominated student by academic member of staff. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervior to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Studentship (PhD) partnership with BBC (AI Audio in XR) |
| Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student, both contributed by the University of York as a direct contribution to the main AHRC funded project. Supervision of the nominated student by academic member of staff. Academic partner is Tom Collins at the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervior to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project. Placemet opportunity with the industry partner. |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Studentship (PhD) partnership with BBC (Context Aware Audio) |
| Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student, both contributed by the University of York as a direct contribution to the main AHRC funded project. Supervision of the nominated student by academic member of staff. Academic Partner is Damian Murphy at the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervior to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project. Placemet opportunity with the industry partner. |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Studentship (PhD) partnership with BBC (Multi Device Orchestration) |
| Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student. Academic Partner is Damian Murphy at the University of York. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervior to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Studentship (PhD) partnership with British Film Institute (Conceptualising Interactive/Immersive Film/TV Story Design) |
| Organisation | British Film Institute (BFI) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support support for the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student. The proposed PhD will develop a conceptual framework to support the expression of thought, design, and analysis of interactive fictional narratives made with audiovisual content. BFI have told us that they anticipate that such a framework can support their goals by supporting the next generation of interactive and immersive filmmakers by equipping them to best understand and explore how the possibilities posed by XR technologies relate to their creative aspirations, and to do so in a manner that is not hindered by additional costs associated with engaging in ill-established production workflows on time-sensitive commercial projects. They have also noted how they are particularly excited by the immediate potential that the framework will have for the filmmakers they are working to support via our investment in XR Stories. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervisors (Jon Hook and Marian Ursu) to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project. The project has only been running for just over a month. However, to date the BFI have contributed to shaping the proposal for funding, and contributed to initial supervisions in which the PhD project is now being refined. Going forward the BFI have committed to: - To contribute to the formal co-supervision of a PhD student, by Ed Humphrey attending a 1-hour supervision meeting with the student every 6 weeks for 3 years. - To facilitate access to interactive and immersive projects associated with the BFI, ensuring the framework is representative of a broad and diverse range of projects. - To provide opportunities (e.g. attendance at workshops, presentations at community events) for the student to disseminate the evolving and final framework to our community of filmmakers to foster impact. |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Studentship (PhD) partnership with British Film Institute (Story Concepts) |
| Organisation | British Film Institute (BFI) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student, both contributed by the University of York as a direct contribution to the main AHRC funded project. Supervision of the nominated student by academic member of staff. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervior to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Studentship (PhD) partnership with Opera North (Immersive Audio Performance) |
| Organisation | Opera North |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories staff time to support the delivery of an XR Stories research project. This includes support from the XR Stories creative technologist to facilitate access to specialist equipment where needed as well as communications support in the dissemination of project output. Funding granted from XR Stories to facilitate the delivery of the project through payment of tuition fees and provide a stipend for the student, both contributed by the University of York as a direct contribution to the main AHRC funded project. Supervision of the nominated student by academic member of staff. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staff time in the co-supervision of the student and working with the student's University based academic supervior to facilitate the delivery of the XR Stories studentship project |
| Impact | Research into immersive creative content for new regional, national and international audiences. New partnerships made between academics at the University of York and SMEs in the Yorkshire and Humber regions, or nationally/internationally, to provide a foundation upon which to grow research and development project activity. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration bringing together aspects of computer science, engineering, creative practice in film, TV, games and media production, as well as social sciences in the underpinning business, geographic and economic research into the UK creative industries. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | XR Stories Core Delivery Partner - BFI |
| Organisation | British Film Institute (BFI) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The XR Stories core deliver team are engaging with the BFI in multiple ways, supporting activities and events and contributing to horizon scanning research in the sector. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The BFI are a core delivery partner on XR Stories (Creative Media Labs), with a role on our Executive Board and Partnership Steering Board as well as contributing to our broader research into the screen industries and their adoption of immersive and interactive technology/media content. From 2022 they will be hosting a co-supervised Research Fellow supported by project funding and in-kind support from the BFI pledged at project application. |
| Impact | Nothing to report here as yet that is not captured elsewhere in our Research Fish return. This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, in that it covers aspects of creative practice in film, fundamental technology research in engineering and computer science, including audio-visual computing, HCI, UX, etc., and social sciences research in economic geography. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | XR Stories Core Delivery Partner - Screen Yorkshire |
| Organisation | Screen Yorkshire |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories (Creative Media Labs) provide an additional pillar of support to the Screen Yorkshire Growth plan to enable the Yorkshire and Humber Screen Industries to develop through a planned programme of investment in R&D for SMEs in the region via collaboration with Yorkshire Universities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Screen Yorkshire sit on the XR Stories Partnership Steering Board, the Executive Board and actively participate in weekly R&D planning meetings. They play an executive production role in the development of our SME collaborations and R&D projects. They provide a link to key companies and organisations both nationally and regionally and are helping to shape the strategic direction of our project. |
| Impact | Nothing to report as yet that is not captured in other aspects of our return for this project. This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, in that it covers aspects of creative practice in film, fundamental technology research in engineering and computer science, including audio-visual computing, HCI, UX, etc., and social sciences research in economic geography, all of which have a focus on influencing sectoral policy at regional and national levels, supporting economic growth for our region and nationally, and cultural in terms of the outputs produced. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | XR Stories-BFI joint research fellowship |
| Organisation | British Film Institute (BFI) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | XR Stories Research Fellow Rob Eagle held a 12-month Research Fellowship jointly between the BFI and XR Stories. He designed and conducted a research project focusing on the role of screen-based entertainment in the everyday lives of a cohort of 16-25-year-olds in Bradford. Participants kept media diaries of the platforms and apps they regularly engaged with and described the context of screen-based media in their daily lives. What emerged was a complex portrait of how young Britons easily switch between video-sharing apps and streaming services but increasingly have little interest in live broadcast TV or physical cinema-going. The project then examined the future potential of interactive and immersive forms of screen-based entertainment. Participants demonstrated a powerful lesson for anyone developing interactive and immersive technologies: however XR devices and platforms change over the next decade, developers need to understand to the daily realities (and challenges) that this generation face. XR devices and platforms will only become mainstream if Gen Z see a role for them in their daily lives; otherwise, XR's use as form of entertainment will remain primarily niche and location-based. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The researcher sat with the Research & Statistics Unit at the BFI, and was able to learn from colleagues about the the current state of the media industry. |
| Impact | 1) A report that will be circulated within the BFI, amongst research colleagues in broadcast services (BBC, Channel 4 and others) and with industry and independent production companies 2) Two articles that will be submitted to peer review this summer 3) Several meetings and presentations with film, TV and XR industry practitioners, discussing the findings from this research |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Title | Adaptive Podcast tool |
| Description | Built upon the BBC SMIL open source framework and object based audio, the android app allows a user to customise their podcast listening experience. This is achieved via an accessibility slider which the user can adjust to select the narrative importance of the audio content. At one end of the scale, all back music, media indents etc will not be played, delivering only important auditory components essential to the narrative (such as voice). |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Working in collaboration with the quirky autistic parenting podcast, the software development has produced a proof of concept for an accessible listening experience for those with autism. The features included were based upon survey data collected during the project which highlighted the challenges autistic people face when consuming audio and visual media. It is hoped that the techniques learned can also be extended to help improve other experiences such as visiting the cinema. |
| Title | Cutting Room (M.Ursu, University of York) |
| Description | Allows the authoring of Object-Based Media production, focusing on interactive narratives embodied through recorded video and audio, such as film, TV, radio and podcasts. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Informed BBC's development of technology that supports Object-Based Media. Allowed film, TV and interactive media production companies to engage with the new form of interactive storytelling. |
| URL | https://digitalcreativity.ac.uk/cuttingroom |
| Title | In Here Out There: A 360 Fulldome cinema based experience |
| Description | A new digital pipeline to export Unity created builds into a 360 Fulldome cinema presentation format. |
| Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Unknown impacts |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/in-here-out-there/ |
| Title | Live by the Sword: Tactics |
| Description | Turn based tactics video game released on the Steam platform |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | None registered to date |
| URL | https://store.steampowered.com/app/1363210/Live_by_the_Sword_Tactics/ |
| Title | R&D Project: Secret Story Network - Test Application (A. Zaluczkowska, Leeds Beckett University) |
| Description | Storytelling application that allows for collaborative storytelling with text pictures and sounds |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | To early to say any impacts |
| URL | https://www.secretstorynetwork.com |
| Description | "Audio-immersive tour in a Virtual Representation of Stephen's Chapel, Westminster" - eXtending Reality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a 20-minute presentation at eXtending Reality: Immersive Design, Production and Technology, hosted at the University of Portsmouth. The presentation was delivered by XR Stories Research Fellow Dr Aglaia Foteinou, to an audience from different disciplines all related to the applications of VR and AR. There were academics, practitioners, researchers from areas such as History, Architecture, Photography, Psychology, Marketing etc. There were about 20 people in the room during the presentation and there were several questions at the end related to the project and in more general our view on evaluation /measurement of the public engagement. Several discussions followed during the breaks and people were interested to hear more details on the subject. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/events/extending-reality-immersive-design-production-an... |
| Description | "Your Heritage, Your Story" presentation for 'Inclusive Futures' panel at CIfA Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Researcher Zulfiya Hamzaki together with the Council for British Archaeology's Dr Claire Corkill presented the work of their collaborative project, which sparked discussion around the topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.archaeologists.net/cifa-annual-conference-2023 |
| Description | "Your Heritage, Your Story" presentation for York Festival of Ideas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Researcher Zulfiya Hamzaki presented their project to a general audience, including other research colleagues involved in its delivery, representation from the Council of British Archaology, and of the participants from the project who shared their experience of working on it, and joined for a panel discussion. There was a lively discussion during the Q & A. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2023/calendar/your-heritage-your-story/ |
| Description | 'House of the Dragon: how virtual production is helping actors say goodbye to green screens' - Article published on The Conversation. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article for the Conversation written around virtual production to coincide with the launch of the new Game of Thrones 'House of the Dragon' TV series. This article has over 8,700 reads. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/house-of-the-dragon-how-virtual-production-is-helping-actors-say-goodbye... |
| Description | 'Yorkshire Voices' XR Stories/SIGN Early Careers Support Scheme workshop (XR Stories Research Fellow Nick Bax) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop / series of talks alongside other representatives from industry organisations (DocFest, Tyke Films, Screen Yorkshire) to advise and assist early career development for those within the Yorkshire region within the screen industries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://screen-network.org.uk/ |
| Description | 2022 Conference on Digital Creativity, Industry and Culture (DCIC 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Over 120 researchers and members of the industry attended this one day conference which had 5 parallel tracks and 45 presentations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/event/digital-creativity-industry-and-culture-dcic-2022/ |
| Description | A-level teacher CPD events, University of Hull |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Dr Stewart Mottram, University of Hull, ran four CPD events for A-level English Literature and History teachers across 20-23 June 2023 at the University of Hull, reaching schools in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire and South Yorkshire (Sheffield) and a combined total of 38 teaching staff across four sessions. The events were designed to engage teachers with two new A-level learning resources created by the XR Stories Rising Tide project team in 2023 with the aim of aligning the Rising Tide of Humber 360 VR videos, created in 2020 as part of our XR Stories-funded project, with aspects of the A-level AQA curricula for A-level English Literature and History. The resources are accessible online here: https://risingtide.hull.ac.uk/for-schools-and-colleges |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://risingtide.hull.ac.uk/for-schools-and-colleges |
| Description | A11y Camp Australia Presentation (XR Stories Research Fellow Lauren Ward) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A11y Camp Australia is an accessibility conference, based in Australia. Attendees came from all over the world - I was accepted for a presentation and also sat on a Q&A panel afterwards. This produced lots of engagement, including follow up calls with the conference organiser about developing training materials and connecting with accessibility colleagues at the ABC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://a11ycamp.org.au/speakers-and-presentations/ |
| Description | AHRC Immersive Mission to the US and SXSW |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited as part of the AHRC Immersive Mission to the US and SXSW to engage with leading US West-Coast technology companies to promote UK Creative Industries research, and was part of DIT/British Council representation at the SXSW festival. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Aalto University, Finland, Invited Seminar: XR Stories - The Story So Far |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited seminar presentation on the XR Stories project as part of a visit to Aalto University, Finland, December 2022, to a group of researchers with relevant interests, resulting in a discussion around future collaboration opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Aesthetica Film Festival networking |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Attended a talks and demonstrations at the Aesthetica Film Festival event. Led to discussions about potential future involvement in XR Stories projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Aesthetica Short Film Festival Soiree |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Hosted a networking event at Aesthetica Short Film Festival, which disseminated informations about XR Stories projects, facilitated networking, and showcased VR products and research collaborations. Made plans for future collaboration with Sky VR. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/aesthetica-short-film-festival-presents-xr-stories-vr-soiree/ |
| Description | Audience Testing for Secret Story Network R&D game outputs with student groups |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Two groups of students undertook a range of SSN story formats and gave feedback on their potential to engage A further workshop was arranged to show the format of the draft application |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.secretstorynetwork.com |
| Description | BBC Sounds Amazing presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Researcher Jemily Rime presented research to BBC Sounds Amazing conference, engaging with the audience and disseminating the outputs of their research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/events/sounds-amazing-2023/ |
| Description | BBC Teen Tech |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Pilot test for a project aiming to engage children in technology and make the industry more aware of children in creative processes. Event was a collaboration between XR stories and BBC R&D. Decision made regarding project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BFI Animation Mapping Working Group (J. Swords) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to provide guidance for BFI's mapping project on the UK animation sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Beyond Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories had a stand, gave demonstrations of work, and networked. Resulted in discussions of potential future projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://beyondconference.org/ |
| Description | Beyond Conference Presentation (XR Stories Researcher Constantin Popp) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster and aural presentation given at national conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://beyondconference.org/b21/posters/poster-12/ |
| Description | Beyond Research Symposium: On Creativity (Jon Swords) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation about new method for mapping creative industries. Led to requests for more information on the mapping methodology and potential research collaboration. Members involved: Jon Swords. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Blog Post on Skills, Talent, and Education in the XR Industry (N. Thomis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Blog post on Skills, Talent, and Education in the XR Industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/skills-talent-and-education-in-the-xr-industry/ |
| Description | Broadcast Futures Project Workshops with National Science and Media Museum and Prox and Reverie to define the planned experience. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Led by R&D Lead Marian Ursu, R&D Projects Manager John Rose-Adams, Creative Producer Nikki Stearman working with a team of approximately 10 participants from the National Science and Media Museum Bradford (part of the Science Museum Group) and Prox and Reverie (regional SME) consulting on the definition of the exhibit for the Future of Broadcast exhibition in 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | CRAIC Essay: Advanced Technologies in the Creative Industries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Essay written on the CRAIC project website about research on creative industries advanced technologies, which brought in quests for further participation and involvement in the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://craic.lboro.ac.uk/essays/advanced-technologies-in-the-creative-industries/ |
| Description | CRAIC Essay: Advanced Technologies in the Creative Industries: Case Studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Essay written on the CRAIC project website about research on creative industries advanced technologies, which brought in quests for further participation and involvement in the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://craic.lboro.ac.uk/advanced-technologies-in-the-creative-industries-case-studies/ |
| Description | CRAIC Final Report: Advanced Technologies in the Creative Industries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Final Report on Advanced Technologies in the Creative Industries presented as a slide deck, available on the CRAIC website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://craic.lboro.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Creative-Technologies-project-Jan-2023.pdf |
| Description | Caroline White - BFI Horizon Scanning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed future of film industry storytelling. IPSOS Mori hosted roundtable event. Led to requests for further information on the future of the film industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - BIMA Immersive Council meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Made plans to be a member on BIMA Immersive Council's quarterly calls. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Caroline White - Betajester meeting 21/10/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed an idea for future funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Big media group meeting 17/12/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed managing a national funding programme with creative cluster programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Bright White Mulled Wine VR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Tested VR product with people in industry. Event facilitated networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Cooperative Innovations meeting 19/11/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed future research & development projects about a online safety for children, a storytelling platform for children, and a content creation platform for TV industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Dialogue with Channel 4 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Met with educators for a presentation of Channel 4's plans for the region and to discuss potential collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Flat-E Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed idea for future funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Future of Digital Storytelling for young audiences. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Launched Young XR fund. Talked about women in VR and how research can collaborate with industry. Led to requests for information on active researchers and funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Game Republic call |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed how to access 150 games companies in network. Led to plans for XR Stories to speak at events and promote XR stories. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Games Republic business event October 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Provided advice for games companies on publishing and funding for VR games. Afterwards was approached by people interested in XR Stories projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Grange consulting meeting 30/10/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed potential future funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Human VR 21/10/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Met to discuss XR Stories funding and redraft a project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Human VR PhD interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participated in an interview about the future of immersive storytelling as part of someone's PhD. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - InGAME Meeting, December 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed collaboration on a national project and plans to advertise to businesses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Jaywing meeting January 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed a project involving big media group. Jaywing have invented data segmenting tool which shows who is looking at brand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Caroline White - JoiPolloi business meeting 26/11/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed TV related projects, including a project about audio stories for TV. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Caroline White - Lunar Animation meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion about what XR Stories do and potential of Lunar Animation applying for funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Caroline White - Meeting with Digish December 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed potential project involving a platform for education. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Meeting with James Walker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Walker is an AI researcher who will support creation of an interactive game aimed at young girls. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Caroline White - Meeting with Jessica Bradley |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Planned a project about language in cities with Jessica Bradley from University of Sheffield. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Caroline White - Meeting with Leeds LEP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Discussed a funding scheme and how to provide people with information on the funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Meeting with Playground 14/01/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed plans for a collaboration between researchers and business on a project involving "All creatures great and small" TV show. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Caroline White - Meeting with University of York academics 07/01/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Met with Daniel Johnstone and Gavin Carney to discuss plans for research about VR and autism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Caroline White - Meeting with Yorkshire Games Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Made plans for XR stories to have a presence at the Yorkshire Games Festival. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Parallax meeting 15/01/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed plans for working with a big media group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Caroline White - Prox Reverie meeting 29/01/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed setting up a studio, VR training, and lab in Doncaster. Received requests for information about XR Stories' funding and future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Caroline White - Redstar meeting 03/12/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed and idea the theme park design company wanted funding for. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Reform Radio's Corporate Podcasting Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Attended Reform Radio's Corporate Podcasting Event in Manchester. Met people/groups such as Spotify to discuss the future of audio and podcasting. Led to requests for information on XR Stories research funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Caroline White - SUMO Digital meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed SUMO Digital's interest in skills and apprenticeships on SIGN. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Caroline White - Sky VR meeting 04/02/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed funding to support sporting TV events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Caroline White - VFI Young Audiences Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed how to manage a young audience fund. Led to planning a young audience fund. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - Women in TV and Film in Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This was a networking events for women in TV and Film, which featured a talk by Sally Wainwright. Outcomes were making contacts and promoting XR stories. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - XR 4 all webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Gave a webinar about funding opportunities for XR funding in Europe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - XR Games business meeting 06/11/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed research and development project collaborations. One potential project involved XR Games working with an AI researcher to create a children's game. Another potential project involved a Hollywood studio working with a child psychology researcher to create a book. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Caroline White - XR Games meeting 22/01/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed plans for a strategic fund and research needs for a book. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Channel 4 Conversation Article published in the Yorkshire Post (N. Thomis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Conversation Article on Channel 4 and Leeds picked up and published by the Yorkshire Post |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/how-leeds-convinced-channel-4-move-its-... |
| Description | Collaborate to Innovate: Inclusive Creative Industries (West Yorkshire Innovation Festival) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An online presentation as part of the West Yorkshire Innovation Festival with a focus on the role of Universities in our region, and in particular for this expert panel, the role of the University of York in supporting the Creative Sector through XR Stories and related projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.wyinnovationfestival.com/ |
| Description | Collaborating with Sky to set up an R&D programme around their new consumer hardware products |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Led by R&D Lead Marian Ursu, R&D Projects Manager John Rose-Adams and Creative Producer Melodie Ash, various stakeholders from Sky attend these meetings to devise an R&D programme around their new consumer hardware products which link the TV screen to a camera orientated towards the room, offering new opportunities for TV-centric entertainment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Commercial Models in VR Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 19 participants from regional companies attended a workshop on the immersive market landscape, guiding attendees on framing their content for the market, understanding audiences, and building a business model |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/event/commercial-models-in-vr/ |
| Description | Conference attendance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | bring together businesses, creative practitioners, and expertise from the Tees Valley's five universities to support the vibrant, dynamic, and fast-growing Creative, Digital and IT (CDIT) sector. Mixture of presentations, workshops and interactive engagement with others working in the sector |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.creativefusene.org.uk/whats-on/event/creative-fuse-conference-2022/ |
| Description | Conference presentation at Immersive Symposium, Lakeside Arts (XR Stories Researcher Constantin Popp) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Discussion sparked regarding the research project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/research/research-projects/Storytelling-Symposium.html?utm_source=wo... |
| Description | Contributed to HM Government's Committee for Science and Technology Creative Industries Event, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Contributed to and attended HM Government's Committee for Science and Technology Creative Industries Event, London, celebrating and promoting key outcomes and organisations in the UK's Creative Industries. The audience was mostly industry, policymakers, Government civil servants, MPs, and discussions took place on further project collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Contributed to a panel session on creative/digital innovation at the York and North Yorkshire Business Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories PI Damian Murphy contributed to a panel session on regional creative/digital innovation at the York and North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership Business Summit, with a particular focus on AI, XR technology and the potential impact on regional businesses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.fsb.org.uk/event-calendar/york-north-yorkshire-business-summit-2023.html |
| Description | Creative Cities Conversations - The Art of Immersive Storytelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Creative Cities Conversations was a podcast series from 2021's Creative Cities Convention in Glasgow, one of the most prestigious events for broadcasters and content production companies, exploring the future of broadcasting and featured leading names who are helping to shape a vibrant future for screen production and distribution outside London. In Episode 8 Damian Murphy and Creative England head of programmes Stephanie Clark explore the future of immersive storytelling |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.thebiglight.com/creativecitiesconversations |
| Description | Creative Media Lab demonstration session to MEng Electronic Engineering Students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 3 University of York MEng Electronic Engineering students visited the XR Stories R&D Lab for a session as a part of their module to hear about XR Stories' activity and experience of delivering and supporting R&D projects as well as receive an insight into the wider immersive technology sector and future employment opportunities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Creative Media Lab demonstration session to the Screen Yorkshire FLEX2 participants |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Screen Yorkshire FLEX2 cohort of 20 new entrants to the screen industries visited the XR Stories R&D Lab for a session as a part of their wider skills and industry development programme to hear about XR Stories' activity and experience of delivering and supporting R&D projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Creative Skills Workshop Career Pathway Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation as part of a workshop about creative industries in Yorkshire. Increased awareness of research projects and facilitated networking within the sector. Led to creation of a blog published by Yorkshire Universities. Members involved: Jon Swords. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://yorkshireuniversities.ac.uk/2020/02/17/creative-industries-in-yorkshire-and-the-humber/ |
| Description | Data collection in a COVID-19 world - meeting with Screen Yorkshire (J.Swords) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This was a meeting with senior members of Screen Yorkshire to discuss the best ways to collect data about the impact of COVID-19 on the region's screen industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Demonstration of businesses to AHRC Creative Economy Team for SXSW2020 Selection |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of 3 businesses to Andrew Chitty (head of creative economy programme) as part of a delegation to South by South West in Texas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Developing AI Voice Technologies for Children (XR Stories Research Fellow Jenn Chubb) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conversational AI (CAI) systems and Intelligent Personal Assistants such as Alexa, Google Home and Siri are becoming ubiquitous in our lives. Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing, and Deep Learning Models have all seen rapid innovation. One area that is receiving increasing attention is the implications of CAI for children, especially in relation to their cognitive, social and linguistic development. Though such technologies are increasingly popular across the generations, they remain relatively opaque to the user, little is known about how to safely and responsibly design CAI for children and tackling the implications of these technologies is increasingly pressing. Jenn Chubb and Sondess Missaoui (from Digital Creativity Labs) presented about technical and ethical considerations when developing voice technologies for children, and recommendations for their adoption in the real-world. This was a YouTube Premiere event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2021/calendar/ai-technologies-children/ |
| Description | Early Career Researchers' workshop for those working in Arts & Creative Technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nina Willment curated a panel workshop on the challenges and opportunities of being an early career researcher in arts & creative technologies departments in universities, in part based on XR Stories research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement event - Presenting and getting feedback on the outcomes of Ghost in the Machine R&D Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The school pupils attending the outreach event were invited to try out the interactive trailer and provide their feedback - 60% reported they were more interested in seeing live opera than before. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | European region of culture visit to York by UNESCO Creative Cities Network members |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and panel for visiting policymakers from Denmark to York through the City of York's UNESCO designation as a City of Media Arts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Exhibition of The Neon Pack VR artwork at Sónar Festival, Barcelona |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public exhibition of 'The Neon Pack' VR experience as part of Realities+D, Sónar, Barcelona |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Expert Panel Session with Dame Ottoline Leyser Chief Executive Officer of UKRI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories hosted a visit from Dame Ottoline Leyser, Chief Executive Officer of UKRI, on behalf of the AHRC Creative Industries Cluster Programme. This particular event in the timetable was a panel with key researchers and industry partners on their work and engagement with the University of York and the role of the XR Stories project in supporting R&D and innovation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Featured in the Creative Nation Promotional Video: How R&D funding enabled supply chain innovation for 'INTERCHANGE' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Featured in the Creative Nation Promotional Video: How R&D funding enabled supply chain innovation for 'INTERCHANGE' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owqUUkgaw6o |
| Description | Festival of Ideas workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab participated in the University of York Festival of Ideas by running 'Toy Stories' workshops, in which the general public watch their toy be 3D scanned and controlled with motion capture, ultimately creating a short film. It sparked a lot of interest from both the children and adults participating, who were keen to follow up on the XR Stories YouTube channel to see their finished films. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6_xK-eyDIo&list=PLaSG2YbYkaMNxr0FLQS5b5S6wNVp1Cja9 |
| Description | Focus Group - employability in the games industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Dr Bethan Jones ran a focus group in the XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab for 12 University of York Interactive Media students (mainly 1st and 3rd years) for a research project on employability in the games industry. It included a motion capture demo to encourage students' interest in the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | From KNOW-HOW to WOW - The Bosch Global Podcast [episode 32] |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Constantin Popp, XR Stories Researcher, gave academic support and background information used in the production of a podcast on spatial audio. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsD5pYU8Z80 |
| Description | Game Republic business event 23/01/2020 (Caroline White) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Attended a Game Republic business event. Led to requests for information on research partnerships and XR Stories' funding scheme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Games Republic event 27/11/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Caroline and Jon spoke at event about XR stories funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Gemma Bridge talk at BEYOND conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Associate Reseacher, Dr Gemma Bridge from the University of York St John presented at the Beyond Conference, London, UK, Nov. 2023. She highlighted the process by which the CriSS tool was developed. The talk was delivered online. There was time for questions at the end of the session. The conference was intended for creative and academic audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | General chair for ACM TVX 2019 - Marian Ursu |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Was a general chair on the organising committee for ACM TVX 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://tvx.acm.org/2019/ |
| Description | Ghost in the Machine Digital Interactive Trailer for Opera North |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The trailer was the most visited page on the Opera North website since January 2020 with 99,853 views and 2,143 clicks through to book tickets |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.operanorth.co.uk/turn-of-the-screw-immersive-trailer/ |
| Description | Global Partners Warner Media Project: Prox & Reverie - Connecting worlds through INTERCHANGE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Global Partners Warner Media Project - Prox & Reverie: Connecting worlds through INTERCHANGE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/prox-reverie-connecting-worlds-through-interchange/ |
| Description | Global Partners Warner Media Project: To Play For - Character-driven stories powered by AI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Global Partners Warner Media Project - To Play For: Character-driven stories powered by AI |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/to-play-for-character-driven-stories-powered-by-ai/ |
| Description | Guest Lecture at Bucknall University, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited guest lecture on Nina Willment's ongoing thesis research entitled 'This is Grime - Introducing popular music, place and identity in London' for Bucknell University, study abroad programme. Prof Mulligan invited the guest lecture and is based in the USA but is currently on sabbatical in Cork. He researches into Frederick Douglass, who has links to York/Yorkshire and wants to work to create an AR based trail of Douglass, and establish a partnership with XR Stories. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://globaleducation.bucknell.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=10472 |
| Description | Guest Lecture at Leeds Beckett University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 20 MA students attended the lecture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Guildhall Lab Visit & Tour - Associate PVC-R |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Sarah Thompson Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor Research at the University of York visited the XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab for an XR stories presentation and view XR Stories demos. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Guildhall Lab Visit & Tour - Digital Catapult |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Christabelle Whyte, Programme Manager, Victoria Williams, Senior Strategy & Public Affairs Manager, Nicole Stewart Rushworth, Immersive Technologist, and David Johnston, Lead Immersive Technologist from Digital Catapult visited the XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab for an XR Stories presentation and demos. There was a mutual interest in each other's models and plans suggested for XR Stories to visit the new AMP lab in London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Guildhall Lab Visit & Tour - Kadir Has Üniversitesi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 5 delegates from the Kadir Has Üniversitesi along with 3 members of the British council support team attended the XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab for an XR Stories presentation and participation in XR Stories demos. There were both team members from the technical and the management teams so they were interested in what the lab offers and the XR Stories and SIGN models. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Guildhall Lab Visit & Tour - PROTO |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Sophie Craggs (Lab Manager) and Clare Nicholson (Partnerships Manager) from the PROTO facility visited the XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab for an XR Stories presentation. It led to creating plans to create a showcase video together and collaborate further in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Guildhall Lab Visit & Tour - Rachael Maskell MP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Rachael Maskell, Labour MP for York Central, visited the XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab. We led a presentation on both the wider economic picture for the north in the industry, and the local picture affected by XR Stories. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Guildhall Lab Visit & Tour - Tom Burton (BBC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Tom Burton, Head of Interactive at the BBC, visited the XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab to understand the work XR Stories does with interactive media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Guildhall Lab Visit & Tour - UoY Impact Managers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Linda Ko Ferrigno (University of York Impact Manager) & Jenny Spear (University of York Faculty of Science Impact Manager) visited the XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab for an XR Stories presentation and demos to learn more about XR Stories' impact on the region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Guildhall Lab Visit & Tour - Y&NY LEP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | York & North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership visited the XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab for a board meeting. Afterwards, they participated in trying out some of XR Stories' project demos, which they found more engaging and impressive than expected. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Guildhall Lab Visit & Tour - York Minster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Laura Cotter, Research and Partnerships Manager, and Luke Snell, Digital Surveyor, from the York Minster visited the XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab to learn how we use interactive and immersive media to support the heritage sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Hosted The Open University at the XR Stories facilities in York Guildhall |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The XR Stories team hosted a visit from the Open University to our facilities at York Guildhall to share learning and best practice as the OU team develop their own new XR Studio facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Hosted a Visit to the XR Stories facilities at York Guildhall from the Glasgow University Museums in the Metaverse project team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The XR Stories team hosted a visit from the Glasgow University Museums in the Metaverse project team to our facilities at York Guildhall to share learning and best practice as the Glasgow team develop their own new XR Studio facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Hosted a Visit to the XR Stories facilities at York Guildhall from the University of Warwick Innovation teams |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The XR Stories team hosted a visit from the University of Warwick Innovation team to our facilities at York Guildhall to share learning and best practice as the Warwick team develop their own strategic planning in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | IAMCR 2020 Conference presentation (Anna Zaluczkowska) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A paper presentation on storytelling practices at the International Association for Media and Communication Research conference in 2020. Brought new people to the work and an interesting discussion was generated I had people contact me to discuss work further and to offer help in future developments |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://iamcr.org/node/13411 |
| Description | IGGI EPSRC CDT Seminar no 5 - VR in Games (XR Stories Research Fellow Nick Bax) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Part of a 4 person panel including Dr Sylvia Pan (Senior Lecturer in Virtual Reality, Goldsmiths), discussing the benefits, costs and pay-offs of VR in gaming, whether there is potential for user-generated VR content and, if so, how UGVR could be integrated, and would VR in a game be more desirable for one genre/game than another. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://iggi.org.uk/ |
| Description | ImmerseUK Awards Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories hosted ImmerseUK for their presentation to UoY students on applying to the ImmerseUK 2024 student awards. The XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab was available for demos, which engaged students and left them asking previous winners for advice on how to apply to these awards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Immersive Accelerator 3-Day Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 10 participants from regional businesses attended a workshop exploring how to make engaging and compelling extended-reality (XR) experiences. This workshop was open exclusively to women, marginalised genders, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. Participants developed plans to submit their ideas for XR Stories' OpenXR funding, following the end of the workshops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/grant/immersive-digital-accelerator/ |
| Description | Immersive Storytelling with Brightblack |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 11 participants from 6 businesses attended a two-day workshop on immersive storytelling, support in using Unity Games Engine and Reaper, and the opportunity to discuss ideas. Audience members found the training around game engines combined with the time to practise most useful. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/event/immersive-storytelling-workshop-with-brightblack/ |
| Description | Influencer' is now a popular career choice for young people - here's what you should know about the creator economy's dark side |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | An article written for the Conversation based on my PhD research (on influencer labour) which was picked up by the BBC and other media outlets. The article has received nearly 50,000 reads from across the globe and has been translated into Indonesian. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/influencer-is-now-a-popular-career-choice-for-young-people-heres-what-yo... |
| Description | Internship Opportunities promoted via YouTube (N.Thomis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Uploading Youtube video onto the XR Stories channel to advertise Internship Opportunities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpfNfKW5JBg |
| Description | Interview about podcasting accessibility (XR Stories Research Fellow Lauren Ward) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interviewed for a Wired article about podcast accessibility for hard of hearing listeners. The aim was to share knowledge about how to create podcasts in an accessible way as well as the future direction of podcasting technology (object-based media) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-make-podcasts-better-for-people-with-hearing-loss/ |
| Description | Inviation to be part of British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) Immersive Tech Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Creative Producer Melodie Ash was invited by the BBC to sit on the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) Immersive Tech Council alongside other key businesses in the immersive sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://bima.co.uk/councils/immersive-tech/ |
| Description | Invitated Panel Session at Sheffield DocFest on The Non-Fiction Metaverse |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Research Fellow David Gochfeld participated in a panel discussion on the possibilities of non-fiction narratives in social VR (aka "metaverse platforms") |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://sheffdocfest.com/composition/alternate-realities-summit |
| Description | Invited Panel Member, Inspiring and Innovating for the Arts: Performance, Practice and Production, School of Arts and Creative Technologies Launch Event, University of York. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | XR Stoires PI Damian Murphy was an invited panel Member for the launch of the new School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/arts-creative-technologies/about/events/school-of-act-launch-event/ |
| Description | Invited Panel Member, York's Creative Future: York Culture Strategy Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participated in a webinar based panel discussion for Make It York, as part of the launch of York's Culture Strategy, Online, 3 December 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.makeityork.com/culture/ |
| Description | Invited Panel: Production Management and Sustainability (Introduction to Virtual Production) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 'Introduction to Virtual Production' offered attendees from across the screen industry sectors - TV and film, games, arts/culture and live events - an opportunity to examine and discuss the tools used in virtual production. The event included hands-on demonstrations, panel discussions on the potential of virtual production, and networking and knowledge sharing. My role here was on an expert panel discussing sustainability in virtual production. 25 Jan 2022, XPLOR, Production Park, Pontefract. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://screen-network.org.uk/event/virtual-production/ |
| Description | Invited Presentation: An Introduction to Immersive Sound (Norway Theatres/PlayOn) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introducing the technology and practice of producing and delivering immersive audio experiences for a group of professional theatre practitioners from across Norway as part of their professional support networking, and an EU funded project with links to the University of York and Pilot Theatre, one of our other partners, called PlayOn. 31/1/2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Presentation: Room Acoustics and Reverberation Simulation (Audio Engineering Society Argentina Section) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Research Presentation on Reverb and Room Acoustics Simulation as an invited expert presentation to the Argentinean Section of the Audio Engineering Society, 23rd August 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited Presentation: Wired for Sound: Engineering future audio experiences and new sound worlds through creative digital technology (Fulford School, York) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | An engineering careers focused invited presentation for a local school focused on aspects of AudioLab and XR Stories research, 9th July 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited Presentation: Wired for Sound: Engineering future audio experiences and new sound worlds through creative digital technology (Fulford School, York) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | An engineering careers focused invited presentation for a local school focused on aspects of AudioLab and XR Stories research, 9th July 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Speaker, Design Made It Possible: Creativity and Economic Success, The Radix Big Tent Ideas Festival, York, 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories PI Damian Murphy contributed to an expert panel as an invited speaker as part of the annual public/policy Radix Big Tent Ideas Festival, held in York, 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://radixuk.org/events/the-radix-big-tent-ideas-festival-23-regenerate/ |
| Description | Invited Speaker: Creative clusters, and next steps for growth and innovation in the UK creative industries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Speaking at an online meeting of the Westminster Media Forum and reporting on the work of XR Stories, "Adapting to Change, Assessing Possibilities, Prioritising R&D" and discussing funding and investment, key policy developments, local collaboration, priorities for innovation and IP, and education, skills, and the talent pipeline for the UK Creative Industries |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/publication/Creative-Industry-23 |
| Description | Invited Speaker: Digital Creativity and the Future of Storytelling, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited Speaker for the Research Libraries UK Digital Shift Forum Series, Online, 16 February, 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.rluk.ac.uk/event/digital-shift-forum-dmurphy/ |
| Description | Invited contribution to a working group on responsible use of AI technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Working with the BBC on their Responsible AI project with a focus on Voice BBC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Invited lecture at Northumbria University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited lecture 'What is virtual production?' at Northumbria University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited panel chair at 'Creating a Sustainable Future for Social Media Content Creation in the UK' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Event hosted by University of Huddersfield for content creators and related stakeholders. Reported research findings and held panels. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited presentation as part of the annual York Talks series. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | York Talks presentation on AI and Narrative Storytelling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqqk7-NvSMY |
| Description | Joe Rees-Jones - Surroundscapes blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Created a blog about Digital Catapult's Surroundscapes workshop, which aims to inform audience about the role of audio in immersive experiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/digital-catapult-surroundscapes/ |
| Description | Joe Rees-Jones - Talk at Digital Catapult Surroundscapes event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Gave a talk about audio in immersive industries, and informed attendees of XR stories funding. Led to discussions with Digital Catapult and people asking about the funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adam - Meeting with IOU Theatre 07/11/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with IOU Theatre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adam - Meeting with Opera North 31/10/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Opera North. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Dock10 Meeting 04/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Met with Dock10 to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with 501 Arts 25/07/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications with 501 Arts. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Betajester 07/11/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Betajester. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Bright White 31/20/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Bright White. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Carbon Imagineering 06/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Carbon Imagineering. Allowed research and development project to commence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Cooperative Innovations 13/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Met with Cooperative Innovations to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications. Allowed 3 project applications to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Diva Creative 16/10/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Diva Creative. Confirmed project progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Duck Soup 06/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Duck Soup. Allowed research and development project to commence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Free Ice Cream 04/07/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications with Free Ice Cream. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Freedom Studios 12/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Freedom Studios. Allowed research and development project to commence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Gazelle Twin and York Mediale 06/11/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Gazelle Twin and York Mediale. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Graham Mellanby 10/07/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications with Graham Mellanby. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Hive IT 11/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Hive IT. Allowed research and development project to commence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with IOU Theatre 12/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with IOU Theatre. Allowed research and development project to commence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with IOU Theatre 25/07/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications with IOU Theatre. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Leeds Beckett University 04/07/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications with Leeds Beckett University. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Live Cinema |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Live Cinema. Allowed research and development project to commence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Meridian Line Films 13/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Met with Meridian Line Films to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Mowbray Partners 04/09/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Met with Mowbray Partners to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Open Cinema 25/07/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications with Open Cinema. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Opera North 12/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Opera North. Allowed research and development project to commence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Pilot Theatre 05/11/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Pilot Theatre. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Pilot Theatre 13/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Pilot Theatre. Allowed research and development project to commence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Revolution Software 16/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Revolution Software. Allowed research and development project to commence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Symbolism Studios 25/10/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Advice and Guidance meeting for funded project with Viridian FX. Project progress confirmed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with The Next Big Film 10/10/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Met with The Next Big Film to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with University of Sheffield 28/08/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Met with University of Sheffield to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Vidaveo 05/07/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications with Vidaveo. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Vidaveo 10/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Vidaveo. Allowed research and development project to commence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Viridian FX 22/10/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Advice and Guidance meeting for funded project with Viridian FX. Project progress confirmed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Visioning Lab 04/07/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications with Visioning Lab. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Warner Media 07/02/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Met to explore research and development partnership with Warner Media, which allowed partnership to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Warner Media 17/12/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Met with Warner Media to explore research & development partnership, which allowed partnership to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with York Archaeological Trust 18/10/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Met with York Archaeological Trust to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with York Mediale 11/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with York Mediale. Allowed research and development project to commence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with York Mediale 19/07/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications with York Mediale. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with York Theatre Royal 02/20/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Met with York Theatre Royal to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with York Theatre Royale 13/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Met with York Theatre Royal to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - Meeting with Zone Me Audio 19/11/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Met with Zone Me Audio to explore partnerships and development of research & development project applications. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - R&D Funding for Digital Storytelling, Hull |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Shared information about immersive storytelling and raised awareness about XR Stories funding. Led to application for funding from 2 audience members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - R&D Funding for Digital Storytelling, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Shared information about immersive storytelling and to raised awareness about XR Stories funding. Led to applications for funding from 2 audience members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - R&D Funding for Digital Storytelling, supported by the Northern Film School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Shared information about immersive storytelling and raised awareness about XR Stories funding. Led to applications for funding from 4 audience members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - XR Stories demonstration 10/10/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrated Yorkshire SMEs for potential selection for SXSW Immersive Futures Show. Three of the demonstrated companies were selected for feature at SXSW Immersive Futures Show. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams - York Mediale Meeting 19/07/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to explore partnerships and development of R&D project applications with York Mediale. Allowed project application to progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John Rose-Adams, Marian Ursu - XR Stories Workshop: Engaging Younger Audiences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories collaborated with BBC and Teentech on an event to work with young people to develop new content concepts and ideas. Strengthened relationships with national and regional partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | John-Rose Adams - Meeting with Bright White 12/09/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had an advice and guidance meeting for a funded project with Bright White. Allowed research and development project to commence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Jon Swords - New Trajectories in Curatorial Experience Design |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jon Swords in interviewed for an episode of the Designing Heritage Experiences podcast by Colin Sterling. The interview informs the audience of Jon's research on creation of immersive experiences in storytelling and community engagement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.spreaker.com/show/designing-heritage-experiences |
| Description | Jon Swords - Creative Skills Workshop planning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Wrote the agenda and activities for Creative Skills Workshop Career Pathway Event in 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Jon Swords - Meeting with Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Had a meeting with Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre. Led to being invited to write a discussion paper and to seminar participation. Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre agreed to bring representatives to Yorkshire and to be potentially involved in future research and development projects in creative industries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Jon Swords - Meeting with Director of Yorkshire Universities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Met to discuss creative industries research projects and the potential role for universities in those projects. Led to a blog published on University of York's website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://yorkshireuniversities.ac.uk/2020/02/17/creative-industries-in-yorkshire-and-the-humber/ |
| Description | Jon Swords - Research meeting about creative industries methodologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Strategic research meeting to discuss methods for researching creative industries and how this research can inform policy. Shared draft reports and agreed to liaise on future mapping activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Jon Swords - VFI animation steering group meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussed draft of consultant's report for an animation mapping project. Finalsed methodology and definitions for the final report, and identified potential areas for research in stage 2 of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Keynote panel at DCMS We Create Conference in Manchester, celebrating launch of Create Growth Programme and Creative Industries in the North of England |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories PI Damian Murphy contributed to a keynote panel hosted by the Minister for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport at the We Create Conference in Manchester, celebrating the launch of Create Growth Programme and Creative Industries in the North of England. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/culture-secretary-celebrates-northern-creativity-in-manchester |
| Description | LEP newsletter article on XR Stories virtual internship programme (N.Thomis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Regional LEP published information on XR Stories Internship Programme to a wider audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Lars Holmquist event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab hosted Prof. Lars Holmquist for his talk 'Intelligence on Tap: Artificial Intelligence as a New Design Material'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Leeds Digital Festival - Presenting the outcomes from the Ghosts in the Machine R&D Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Lightforge Academy visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Lightforge Academy visited XR Stories. Discussed future collaboration and Lightforge Academy met researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Make It York 05/02/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presented XR Stories activities to industry representatives and defined the future for York's creative industries. Facilitated development of local networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Make It York Creative industries Workshop (John Rose Adams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A workshop to contribute to the development of the City of York's investment in the creative industries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Manchester Animation Festival, Manimation 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had a stand promoting XR stories and its funding to animators. Some attendees expressed interest in XR Stories funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Mapping workshop - creative industries (J.Swords) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I was an invited panelist at a workshop on mapping the creative industries organised by the Creative Informatics cluster. c15 people in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Mastering Motion Capture Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on Motion Capture for individual creators and regional businesses. Participants learned about motion capture technologies and workflows, and got hands-on experience using the XSens motion capture suits to animate characters in Unreal Engine. Attendees reported a greater understanding and appreciation of the capabilities of the technology, and some subsequently returned to the Lab to do motion capture for specific projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/event/mastering-motion-capture/ |
| Description | Mastering Pitching Ideas masterclass |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 11 eligible SMEs/sole traders attended a masterclass on the mechanics of effective pitching, creating a well-formed concept, with guest speakers from relevant funding bodies and companies in the industry. Feedback from audience was that this class helped them developing a new product and they found the advice useful for business growth. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/event/mastering-pitching-ideas/ |
| Description | Masters by Research: Exploring persuasive interactive film Project Page |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Masters by Research - Exploring persuasive interactive film Project Page |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/exploring-persuasive-interactive-film/ |
| Description | Masters by Research: Lag-free audio communication Project Page |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Masters by Research - Lag-free audio communication Project Page |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/lag-free-audio-communication/ |
| Description | Masters by Research: Re-imagining 3D models of archaeological sites in virtual reality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Masters by Research - Re-imagining 3D models of archaeological sites in virtual reality Project Page |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/re-imagining-3d-models-of-archaeological-sites-in-virtual-reality/ |
| Description | Masters by Research: Stories in the Sky Project Page |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Masters by Research - Stories in the Sky Project Page |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/stories-in-the-sky-vr/ |
| Description | Match and Follow On Project: Protopian Tales - Using XR to bring animated stories to life |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Match and Follow On Project Page - Protopian Tales: Using XR to bring animated stories to life |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/protopian-tales-using-xr-to-bring-animated-stories-to-life/ |
| Description | Match and Follow On Project: The Invited - An immersive AR pop-up book |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Match and Follow On Project Page - The Invited: An immersive AR pop-up book |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/the-invited-an-immersive-ar-pop-up-book/ |
| Description | Meeting with BFI about COVID-19 research (J.Swords) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A discussion with members of the BFI's research team about researching the impact of COVID-19 on the UK screen industries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Warner Media and Partners 14/02/2020 (Caroline White) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Finalised brief. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Warner Media and Partners 19/02/2020 (Caroline White) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Finalised brief and discussed development of creative industries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Mirrorhead projector training workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | York-based creative businesses visited the XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab for a training session on how to use a projector with attached mirrorhead for dynamic projection. This training was provided in collaboration with Polestar Productions. Attendees requested further information about hiring the projector and mirrorhead from XR Stories. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Motion Capture Knowledge Exchange Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on motion capture at the library Creativity Lab, attended by students (undergrad and postgrad) and producers from a regional business. Attendees reported increased understanding of the mocap animation workflow and intention to use mocap for future projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://screen-network.org.uk/event/introduction-to-motion-capture-masterclass/ |
| Description | Motion Capture Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 10 regional businesses attended the workshopa and the content included how to set up a subject for performance capture and various post-production pipelines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/event/mastering-motion-capture/ |
| Description | Nathan Townsend - BFI Meeting: Wider World of Film Meeting 06/11/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Met with BFI to gain insight into the BFI audience research process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Nathan Townsend - BFI Meeting: Wider World of Film Meeting 31/12/2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Met with BFI to gain insight into the BFI audience research process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Nathan Townsend - Back to Ours Interview 5/3/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Conducted a research interview with Back To Ours, which provided insight into immersive sector SME operations in the Yorkshire & Humber Region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Nathan Townsend - Bellyfeel Interview 17/2/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Conducted a research interview with Bellyfeel, which provided insight into immersive sector SME operations in the Yorkshire & Humber Region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Nathan Townsend - IOU Theatre Interview 26/2/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Conducted a research interview with IOU Theatre, which provided insight into immersive sector SME operations in the Yorkshire & Humber Region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Nathan Townsend - Live Cinema Interview 17/2/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Conducted a research interview with Live Cinema, which provided insight into immersive sector SME operations in the Yorkshire & Humber Region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Nathan Townsend - Screen Yorkshire Interview 14/1/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Conducted a research interview with Screen Yorkshire, which provided insight into screen sector SME operations in the Yorkshire & Humber Region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Nathan Townsend - Vidaveo Interview 17/2/2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Conducted a research interview with Vidaveo, which provided insight into immersive sector SME operations in the Yorkshire & Humber Region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | News article on XR Stories virtual internship programme (N.Thomis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Internship Programme advertised on Richmondshire Business Network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.rbnetwork.co.uk/News/ArtMID/435/ArticleID/12333/Virtual-Internships-Funding |
| Description | North Yorkshire Economic Strategy - Business Growth and Innovation Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A roundtable discussion about the economic development of North Yorkshire |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | OFCOM OBM Stakeholder Event (XR Stories Research Fellow Lauren Ward) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Remotely attended workshop to discuss the OFCOM OBM report and future object based media research and implementation. Included presentation by Lauren to those present on her research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Object-Based Media Stakeholders Meeting (Marian Ursu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A meeting of experts and key stakeholders (including BBC, BT, Sky, C4, ITV, Fraunhofer, Dolby, and various universities) discussing ways forward for the development of Object-Based Media after the publication of the Ofcom report on this paradigm. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ofcom.org.uk/research-and-data/technology/general/object-based-media |
| Description | Official XR Stories launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Officially launched XR stories at King's Manor. The event included speeches from leading thinkers in immersive media, demonstrations from partners, and launch of funding calls. Led to plans for future XR stories projects and applications for XR stories funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/500-2/ |
| Description | One-day symposium and public engagement activity on the theme of tattoo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'Inked Up, Marked Out' was a one-day interdisciplinary academic symposium devoted to facilitating a vibrant and inclusive discussion around tattooing. This was followed by a public engagement talk by XR Stories Researcher Dr Nina Willment entitled 'Inked Up, Drawn In: Cultural Encounters with Tattooing' focused on understanding public perceptions on tattooing. The day event was attended by around 30 individuals, and the public engagement event was attended by around 50 individuals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/lecture-theatre/inked-drawn-cultural-encounters-tattooing |
| Description | Online seminar presentation for Linnaeus University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Researcher Zulfiya Hamzaki co-presented with XR Stories Research Associates Dr Marta Herrero and Dr Jon Hook for a 2 hour long online seminar hosted by Linnaeus University, Sweden, as part of their seminar series for the Art, Culture and Entrepreneurship research group. The presentation was delivered to 6 academic experts, and sparked an interesting discussion around the topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://lnu.se/en/meet-linnaeus-university/current/events/2022/seminar-series-for-art-culture-and-en... |
| Description | Open XR Project: Grains of Recollection - A Unique VR Experience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Open XR Project Page - Grains of Recollection: A Unique VR Experience Project Page |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/grains-of-recollection-a-unique-vr-experience/ |
| Description | Open XR Project: Page Monoliths - Exploring outdoor locations in VR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Publilshed Open XR Project Page - Monoliths: Exploring outdoor locations in VR |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/monoliths-exploring-outdoor-locations-in-vr/ |
| Description | Open XR Project: The Tell-Tale Rooms - Exploring virtual rooms using CGI and 360° VR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Open XR Project Page - The Tell-Tale Rooms: Exploring virtual rooms using CGI and 360° VR |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/the-tell-tale-rooms/ |
| Description | Open XR Project: Using extended-reality to enhance live ballet performances |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Open XR Project Page - Using extended-reality to enhance live ballet performances |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/using-extended-reality-to-enhance-live-ballet-performances/ |
| Description | Open XR R&D Project Videos |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A series of eight videos were produced and published, showcasing the Open XR series of XR Stories R&D projects, each delivered by a regional business and demonstrating innovation in immersive and interactive digital storytelling |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaSG2YbYkaMNT9WsMBb0tHosMqn7rhMJ9 |
| Description | OpenXR Project: Flood - Combining XR technologies with immersive storytelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Open XR Project Page - Flood: Combining XR technologies with immersive storytelling |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/flood-combining-xr-technologies-with-immersive-storytelling/ |
| Description | OpenXR Project: The Burning Room - A Comedy-Horror VR Experience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published OpenXR Project Page - The Burning Room: A Comedy-Horror VR Experience Project Page |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/the-burning-room-a-comedy-horror-vr-experience/ |
| Description | Opera North @ Leeds Digital Festival: Performing Arts & Digital Entrepreneurship (J.Rose Adams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion to explore the evolving landscape of the arts, before, during, and after lockdown, and the digital projects that have transformed the way we create and deliver artistic experiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Organisation of the Modern Audience Conference February 2022 Secret (Anna Zaluczkowska, Leeds Beckett University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference on interactive production based on XR Stories supported Secret Story Network project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://modernaudience.org/ |
| Description | Panel / presentation (Immersive Futures Lab, SXSW 2023) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Nick Bax, an XR Stories Research Fellow, was one of three presenters who showcased their work within the immersive sector and then answered questions from an audience of around 25-30 attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://immersivefutures.io/archive/#sxsw23 |
| Description | Panel Session and the 2022 Beyond Conference: Virtual Production: A Pathway for Environmental Sustainability in Film and TV? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Research Fellow David Gochfeld participated in a panel discussing possible climate impacts, both positive and negative, of virtual production in the film and tv industry. Some audience members reported increased awareness and new perspective on the potential issues around sustainability of the industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://beyondconference.org/b22/schedule/ |
| Description | Panel and Jury at Aesthetica Film Festival, York, November 2021 (XR Stories Research Fellow David Gochfeld) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion about social VR and what current use can tell us about identity and relationships in the metaverse. Audience comprised of current post-graduate students, XR creators, educators, filmmakers, and general public. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.asff.co.uk/vr-lab/#vr-panels |
| Description | Panel chair for "Immersive Narratives" at ASFF - Marian Ursu |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Panel chair for "Immersive Narratives: The Art of VR Storytelling" at Aesthetica Film Festival 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.asff.co.uk/asff-2019/screen-school-vr-lab/#vr-discussions-2019 |
| Description | Panel member for "Alternate Realities" at ASFF - Marian Ursu |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Was a panel member for "Alternate Realities: The Ethics of Fictional Environments" at Aesthetica Film Festival. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.asff.co.uk/asff-2019/screen-school-vr-lab/#vr-discussions-2019 |
| Description | Participation in AI4ME Sandpit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The EPSRC AI4E prosperity partnership research project invited XR Stories Research Fellow Lauren Ward to be a provocateur at their project sandpit, speaking on accessibility and personalisable television audio. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ai4me.surrey.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Participation in the Launch Event for the new School of Physics, Engineering and Technology at the University of York. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A launch event was held for the new School of Physics, Engineering and Technology at the University of York. The XR Stories team contributed to the event by showcasing their work as one of the five key strategic areas of translational research impact, 'Engineering the Metaverse'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| Description | Participation in the Launch Event for the new York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On 1st February 2024 a launch event was held for the new York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority that will result in the election of a regional mayor and devolution from Government of key budgets and decision making powers. The XR Stories team contributed to the event by showcasing their work as one of the three key strategic areas for development in the region on behalf of the University of York. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://yorknorthyorks-ca.gov.uk/launch-event-for-combined-authority/ |
| Description | Personal invitation to attend ARHC and Institute for Government 3 day 'Engaging with Government' course to showcase virtual production research, which aims to build links between policymakers and new arts and humanities research. Due to take place in Feb 2023. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Researcher Nina Willment selected for a fully-funded place on AHRC and Institute for Government 3-day 'Engaging with Government' course, which aims to build links between policymakers and new arts and humanities research. Due to take place in Feb 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/what-we-offer/developing-people-and-skills/ahrc/learn-about-the-policymaking-pr... |
| Description | Personasmith: An XR Stories OpenXR R&D Project interactive game about counterfeit and forgery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Personasmith is one of XR Stories' R&D Projects as part of the 2022 OpenXR call that produced an interactive game about counterfeit and forgery. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/personasmith-an-interactive-game/ |
| Description | Pilot OpenXR Project: AIR TV - Exploring immersive and interactive TV shows |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published AIR TV Exploring immersive and interactive TV shows |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/air-tv-exploring-immersive-and-interactive-tv-shows/ |
| Description | Play On Partners Demo Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Play On! project (European Culture Funding, Creative Europe project) partners attended a meeting in the Guildhall, hosted by Pilot Theatre and DC Labs. Creative and design staff from 9 European theatre companies met for three days of workshops to learn about new creative technologies and how they could be employed in upcoming productions. As part of this, participants were invited to the XR Stories Guildhall Lab for a demonstration of the facilities and showed several VR projects funded by XR Stories. Partners expressed interest in adopting some of the technologies demonstrated, and followed up with further conversations about creative applications and technical workflow. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://play-on.eu/ |
| Description | Play On! Planning Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Play On! project (European Culture Funding, Creative Europe project) partners attended a meeting in Berlin, Germany, to report on productions created as part of the project, and to discuss plans for the next phase of work. XR Stories Research Fellow David Gochfeld participated as a subject expert on immersive technologies to discuss the use of AR, VR and immersive audio for planned outdoor promenade productions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://play-on.eu/ |
| Description | Presentation and panel (Jon Swords) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Research presentation for Humanities Research Centre |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at Backstage Academy Symposium 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Can virtual production improve the structural issues of equality, diversity and inclusion within the film and TV industry?" presented at the 2022 Backstage Academy Symposium on lthe atest XR Stories research about the geographies of virtual production. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.backstage-academy.co.uk/Symposium |
| Description | Presentation at Children's Media Conference (Rebecca Parry, University of Sheffield) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A video presentation included as content in the Children's Media Conference, alongside a live discussion event and a pitch to 'Money Where Your Mouth is' based on XR Stories supported project Awesome Animals SafARi. Over 2000 delegates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.thechildrensmediaconference.com/on-demand/xr-stories-creative-collaborations-in-interact... |
| Description | Presentation at Digital Creativity, Industry and Culture conference at University of York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Research Fellow Lauren Ward gave two talks at the Digital Creativity, Industry and Culture conference at University of York on 'Accessible audio for autistic individuals' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://digitalcreativity.ac.uk/conference-programme.html |
| Description | Presentation at Digital Creativity, Industry and Culture conference at University of York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Research Fellow Lauren Ward gave a talk at the Digital Creativity, Industry and Culture conference at University of York on the Sky and Reflex Arc collaboration 'eXceptional useR design' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://digitalcreativity.ac.uk/conference-programme.html |
| Description | Presentation at Digital Creativity, Industry and Culture conference at University of York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at Digital Creativity, Industry and Culture conference at University of York |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://digitalcreativity.ac.uk/dcic-2022.html |
| Description | Presentation at IOA Midlands Branch - "An Acoustic Reconstruction of the House of Commons c.1820-1834" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Aglaia Foteinou, XR Stories Research Fellow, gave a one-hour presentation at the University of Derby where the audience was made up of representatives from various acoustic companies and related industry, academics from the university, and postgraduate students. The presentation was live-streamed nationally to Institute of Acoustics members, and was followed by questions from the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.ioa.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=794 |
| Description | Presentation at SXSW event as part of Immersive Futures Lab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Researcher Dr Nina Willment gave a presentation entitled ' Virtual Production beyond the Hype: sustainability, diversity and efficiency' on behalf of Creative Economy Team/XR Stories at South by SouthWest SXSW in Austin, Texas |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://immersivefutures.io/archive/#sxsw23 |
| Description | Presentation at the 2022 Beyond Conference, Cardiff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories PhD student Jemily Rime presented her research on Interactive and personalised podcasting with AI audio to attendees from the media/creative industries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://beyondconference.org/b22/speakers/jemily-rime/ |
| Description | Presentation at the 2022 Beyond Conference: "Technology Innovation in the Creative Industries" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Research Partner Dan Turner gave a presentation on the use of advanced technologies within the creative industries at the Beyond Conference, titled "Technology Innovation in the Creative Industries". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://beyondconference.org/ |
| Description | Presentation at the AES International Conference on Spatial and Immersive Audio |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Constantin Popp, XR Stories Researcher reported findings about research that has taken place across several years of this project, sparking questions and discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://aes2.org/event-extra/aes-2023-international-spatial-and-immersive-conference-program/ |
| Description | Presentation at the Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "The Geographies of Virtual Production: the possibilities and limitations of production innovation in the film and TV industry" presented at the Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference on latest XR Stories research about the geographies of virtual production. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.rgs.org/geography/news/rgs-ibg-annual-international-conference-2022/ |
| Description | Presentation at the University of York Festival of Ideas (Marian Ursu) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Marian Ursu delivered a talk on interactive storytelling, focusing on the Object-Media paradigm to which our research made essential contributions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2021/calendar/infinite-stories/ |
| Description | Presentation for UK Department for International Trade at York Business Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Nina Willment was an invited speaker for Department for International Trade - York Business Festival event entitled 'All the Worlds a Stage: Creative Sector Digitalisation and the Global Opportunities' - talking about the work of XR Stories and SIGN |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.events.great.gov.uk/website/9117/creative-sector-digitalisation-opportunities/ |
| Description | Presentation for York Festival of Ideas - Inked Up, Marked Out |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A public lecture by XR Stories Researcher Dr Nina Willment entitled 'Inked Up, Marked Out: academic research into tattoo and tattooing' as part of York Festival of Ideas 2023 event, around 30 people attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2023/calendar/tattoo-body-archive/ |
| Description | Presentation to Loughborough University London (LUL): "Advanced Technologies in the Creative Industries" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Research Partner Dan Turner gave a presentation on the use of advanced technologies within the creative industries at a Loughborough University event, titled "Advanced Technologies in the Creative Industries". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presented a seminar on XR Stories and the Creative Industries Cluster Programme at University of Salford. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories PI Damian Murphy presented an invited seminar on the XR Stories project and the UK's Creative Industries Cluster Programme as part of the University of Salford Acoustics Research Seminar series. The presentation highlighted relevant work in audio and acoustics in the context of wider UK Government policy to support economic growth in the creative industries through R&D. Audience was mostly researchers in the field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIXRLtby5xg |
| Description | Presented a seminar on XR Stories and the Creative Industries Cluster Programme at the Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories PI Damian Murphy presented an invited seminar on the XR Stories project and the UK's Creative Industries Cluster Programme at the Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark. The presentation highlighted relevant work in audio and acoustics in the context of wider UK Government policy to support economic growth in the creative industries through R&D. Audience was mostly researchers in the field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Presenting to the AHRC/InnovateUK Creative Industries Advisory Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The event was a presentation for policymakers about how XR Stories project was going. The outcome was that the presentation helped secure funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology: Infrastructure Roundtable. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited Speaker to the session, "How investment in arts, humanities and creativity-led research can contribute to innovation in technology-led sectors such as generative AI, research software engineering and the 'metaverse technologies", as part of the Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology: Infrastructure Roundtable. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Promoting Virtual Production in Yorkshire and Humber (XR Stories and SIGN YouTube Film) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Future of Virtual Production in Yorkshire and The Humber |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISJc3NwuLu8 |
| Description | Promoting XR Stories at Visual Media Conference, Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories attended the Visual Media Conference in Leeds to promote the project and build connections with industry in the region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Promoting XR Stories to Game Republic event, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories attended Game Republic event at York St John University to promote the XR Stories project and build connections with industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Prox & Reverie/WarnerMedia XR Stories partnership featured in Creative Nation Article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prox & Reverie/WarnerMedia XR Stories R&D Project partnership featured in Creative Nation Article |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://thecreativenation.uk/stories/prox-and-reverie-interchange?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_NOVEMBER_2021_... |
| Description | Public lecture entitled From The Jungle Book to The Mandalorian: Making virtual production 'reel' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A public lecture by XR Stories Researcher Dr Nina Willment entitled 'From the Jungle Book to the Mandalorian: making virtual production 'reel' as part of YorkTalks 2023 event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/research/events/yorktalks/2023/ |
| Description | Published website article on XR Stories SMEs and Createch Ones To Watch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A number of Yorkshire and Humber creative sector businesses associated with XR Stories have been highlighted as Createch 'Ones To Watch' 2020 showcase at CogX, which will be taking place 8th - 10th June. Joi Polloi, Bright White, Cooperative Innovations and Reflex Arc are all appearing at this year's CogX, the summit and festival of AI and breakthrough tech. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/xr-stories-businesses-highlighted-as-createchs-ones-to-watch-at-cogx-2020/ |
| Description | Published website article on XR Stories virtual internship programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories is here to help businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber unlock the potential of virtual and in-person internships through our dedicated scheme launching soon. From 1 July 2020, this new scheme will allow your business to access support to find an intern as well as providing up to 100% of the funding. We'll help you scope out your project, advertise the opportunity across our networks, and present you with a range of candidates. Read on to find out more about how virtual internships can help your business. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/how-internships-have-gone-virtual-and-why-the-trend-may-be-here-to-stay/ |
| Description | Radio appearance on ABC Radio, Illawara, Australia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Guest radio appearance by XR Stories Researcher Dr Nina Willment discussing the lived experience of being an influencer on ABC Radio Illawara, Australia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Radiotechcon conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Researcher Jemily Rime presented research to Radiotechcon audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.radiotechcon.com/ |
| Description | Reflex Arc visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Demonstrated work and discussed how Reflex Arc could use a researcher in a future project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Research Project: SuperCharging Audio Storytelling - 3D Audio in Virtual Reality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Research Project Page - SuperCharging Audio Storytelling: 3D Audio in Virtual Reality |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/supercharging-audio-storytelling-3d-audio-in-virtual-reality/ |
| Description | Research and Development Project - By The Rising Tide of the Humber. D Mundy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presented at the Earth Arcade stand in the Water Line Summit's V:Fairs, 19-23 October, 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://waterlinesummit2020.vfairs.com/ |
| Description | Research and Development Project - By The Rising Tide of the Humber. D Mundy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented at the digtial Freedom Festival, Hull, 4-6 September 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.freedomfestival.co.uk/by-the-rising-tide-of-the-humber/ |
| Description | Research and Development Project - By The Rising Tide of the Humber. D Mundy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Blog posting hosted by Serious GeoGames Lab (University of Hull) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://seriousgeo.games/tag/by-tide-of-humber/ |
| Description | Research and Development Project - XR Scenographic Tool - J.Mckenny. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participants worked practically with the tool to explore what it can do and gave Megaverse feedback on how they might use it in their practice and what might be done to improve it. The feedback from the event has fed into further technical development of the tool together with understanding of the distinctiveness and advantages of the tool for artistic and commercial outcomes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Research and Development Project with Persona -Absent Sitters Performance B. Eyes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | This was an online 'immersive' audio-visual performance with pre-rendered, as well as live, audio-visual elements. The audience members were visible to each other and responses to events in the piece (e.g. sudden changes in lighting) were visible from their different locations, creating a strong sense of integration even though the performance was experienced 'at distance'. 3D audio was delivered binaurally to headphones. Audiences were briefed prior to the performance and surveyed afterwards for their responses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://yorkmediale.com/events/absent-sitters/ |
| Description | Research and Development Project with Videavo - Media/Social Media Interviews |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Adam Gill has produced and issued a range of 'Behind the Scenes' videos relating to the xrstories 'Mind Hopping' project. These have been distributed on Social Media (Facebook, Youtube & LinkedIn). He has also provides articles, interviews and blogs for a variety of media, including the York Science Park, Everyday People and the York Press. Whenever discussing the development of my work with 360 immersive technology I always reference xrstories and their support. An example of this media distribution includes my recent work with the Jorvik Viking Centre. The 360 video that I created for their Virtual Viking festival, was featured in their Schools Week special and reached over 18,000 people. It was received very well and got a lot of positive feedback. I featured this on both LinkedIn and Facebbok, referencing xrstories for their support and the R&D opportunity they provided. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.vidaveo.com/ |
| Description | Research seminar at Northumbria University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited research seminar 'A research agenda for virtual production' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SAMIS Workshop: Sound Sucks in the Metaverse |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Research Fellow David Gochfeld moderated a discussion about the difficulty in getting good audio quality in multi-user VR platforms, for the Sound and Music in Immersive Storytelling conference. Participants included post-graduate students, researchers and faculty working with music, VR, and immersive audio, and the discussion covered a range of different aspects of the technology which pose challenges, giving all participants a greater appreciation of the complexities involved. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jZUQIDAN86roAZ5qt4Ge1JIPd_t4sYRn241P0jtocHc/edit#heading=h.v4vuk... |
| Description | SXSW Panel - Disability Representation in Future Stories |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion at SXSW on Disability Representation in Future Stories, led by Dr Anna Bramwell-Dicks, XR Stories Research Fellow, with Dr Erin Pritchard, Connor Scott-Gardner and Deepa Mann-Kler as the other panel members. Approximately 150 people in the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP125269 |
| Description | Sheffield DocFest Alternate Realities Think Tank |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Research Fellow David Gochfeld facilitated one of 6 discussion groups of professional media practitioners and staff of producing organizations, discussing problems and solutions for the XR and immersive media creators and producers. Outcome was a summary report. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://sheffdocfest.com/composition/alternate-realities-summit |
| Description | Showcasing at South x Southwest UK Immersive Futures Lab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The XR Stories team showcased a suite of XR Stories funded projects at SXSW in Austin, Texas at the "lmmersive Futures Lab" event. This was attended by international visitors and was an opportunity for us to network, gain further exposure for the projects, and bring XR Stories to an international audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Sky Accessibility Talk (XR Stories Research Fellow Lauren Ward) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | One hour talk and Q&A on accessibility in media for senior Sky staff in Drama and Comedy and their products teams. Approximately 5 attendees with interest in giving future presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Small Collaborative R&D Project: Enriching the visual environments of interactive story-driven games |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Small Collaborative R&D Project Page - Enriching the visual environments of interactive story-driven games |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/enriching-the-visual-environments-of-interactive-story-driven-games/ |
| Description | Speaker at Yorkshire Games Festival - Caroline White |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Spoke about XR Stories to an audience at Yorkshire Games Festival in an event about the Future of VR |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/whats-on/yorkshire-games-festival |
| Description | StoryBox methodologies for teaching. J Bradley R&D Project Output |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Teaching materials based on methodologies for StoryBox research for MA Digital Literacies, Culture and Education. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Storylab Project: A Carnival Comes to Town - Poetry in VR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Storylab Project R&D Webpage for A Carnival Comes to Town: Poetry in VR |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/a-carnival-comes-to-town-poetry-in-vr/ |
| Description | Storylab Project: Into-Visible - Exploring gender inequality in VR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Storylab Project: Into-Visible: Exploring gender inequality in VR |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/into-visible-exploring-gender-inequality-in-vr/ |
| Description | Storylab Project: NDEVR - Immersive 360° Storytelling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Storylab Project R&D Webpage forNdevr |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/ndevr-immersive-360-storytelling/ |
| Description | Storylab Project: The Interview - Real life stories in VR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Storylab Project R&D webpage forThe Interview: Real life stories in VR |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/the-interview-real-life-stories-in-vr/ |
| Description | Storylab Project: Think Twice - Critical thinking in VR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Storylab Project Think Twice: Critical thinking in VR |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/think-twice-critical-thinking-in-vr/ |
| Description | Storylab Project: Vital Stories - Immersive Storytelling on Twitch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Storylab Project: Into-Visible: Exploring gender inequality in VR |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/vital-stories-immersive-storytelling-on-twitch/ |
| Description | Storymode: Core Storytelling Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 9 participants from regional businesses attended a workshop taking participants back to the basics of storytelling, and how to incorporate and apply technology to best fit the story. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/grant/storymode/ |
| Description | Storymode: Pitching & Review |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 9 participants from regional businesses attended a workshop taking participants back to the basics of storytelling, and how to incorporate and apply technology to best fit the story, in this case this was pitching session that allowed participants to showcase their work from the programme for feedback |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/grant/storymode/ |
| Description | Storymode: Technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 9 participants from regional businesses attended a workshop taking participants back to the basics of storytelling, and how to incorporate and apply technology to best fit the story, in this case with a focus on the technology used to create digital stories |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/grant/storymode/ |
| Description | Storymode: User Experience Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 9 participants from regional businesses attended a workshop taking participants back to the basics of storytelling, and how to incorporate and apply technology to best fit the story, in this case with a focus on user experience in digital storytelling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/grant/storymode/ |
| Description | Strategic XR Pilot Project: Box in the Attic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Strategic Pilot Project R&D webpage for Box in the Attic |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Strategic XR Pilot Project: Live by the Sword |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Strategic Pilot Project R&D webpage for Live by the Sword |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Strategic XR: Glimmer and Sympthony |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Strategic XR R&D webpage for the Glimmer and Symphony Projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/glimmer-and-symphony/ |
| Description | Strategic XR: Al Fan Along |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Strategic XR webpages on the XR Stories website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/ai-fan-along |
| Description | Strategic XR: EARS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Strategic XR R&D webpage for the EARS Project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/ears-esports-audience-response-system |
| Description | Strategic XR: Shapeshifter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Strategic XR R&D webpage for the Shapeshifter and Glimmer |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/shapeshifter/ |
| Description | Strategic XR: Surround Stories Lab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Young XR R&D webpage for the Surround Stories Lab Project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/surround-stories-lab/ |
| Description | Strategic XR: XR Scenographic Tool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Strategic XR R&D webpage for the XR Scenographic Tool Project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/block-an-xr-scenographic-tool/ |
| Description | Strategic XR: XR Storybox |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Strategic XR R&D webpage for the XR Storybox Project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/xr-games |
| Description | SuperCharging Audio Storytelling: 3D Audio in Virtual Reality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Media story highlighting research on the XR Stories SuperCharging Audio Storytelling: 3D Audio in Virtual Reality project, funded by XR Stories. The story highlights the research finding that audio experience in VR can be authentic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2022/research/audio-experience-virtual-reality-can-be-au... |
| Description | Talk - eXtending Reality Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The conference was aimed at academics and professionals working within XR technologies. The talk helped to showcase the research of XR Stories researcher Dr Constantin Popp, Dr Dan Johnston and their ParkVR project, as well as inspire the panel discussion surrounding access to virtual content and how to make these experiences available to all people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/events/extending-reality-immersive-design-production-an... |
| Description | Talk on Christmas Carol VR project at Play On! Hope Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Research Fellow David Gochfeld gave a presentation on translating a stage production into virtual reality, based on Actors Theatre of Louisville's production of Christmas Carol (Dec 2021). Online conference organized by the Play On! project, watched by theatre practitioners, students and researchers from across Europe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://play-on.eu/hope-2022/ |
| Description | Talk to University Research Communicators Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nicola Thomis, XR Stories Communications Manager. gave a talk on the experience of producing the XR Stories & SIGN podcast to the Research Communicators Forum which is a group of people across all faculties and departments of the university, all of whom have a responsibility for communicating research. The talk prompted comments and discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | The Conversation: Channel 4 in Leeds - a new hub to unlock creativity in the UK's nations and regions (Nathan Townsend) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article for The Conversation - "Channel 4 in Leeds - a new hub to unlock creativity in the UK's nations and regions" - as a summary of research done and as a precursor to a full article. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/channel-4-in-leeds-a-new-hub-to-unlock-creativity-in-the-uks-nations-and... |
| Description | The Future Is Northern Workshop (hackathon), training, mentoring and creative production |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 10 young adults (aged 16-25) were engaged with as part of The Future is Northern project in February 2023. 4 of these young adults attended our weekend hackathon ('Hack the future of entertainment'), where they had 48 hours to work together and create an immersive or interactive experience. They created a clever, innovative spin on a VR game, where each participant had unique input with their own skills in narrative, animation or game design. We also brought in two mentors who worked with the team and spoke to them about careers in the industry. Following on from that activity, we are also granting 'micro-commissions' to 6 teams of young artists and XR developers ages 16-25 in Bradford. They have 6 weeks to create a proposal (or a proof-of-concept) of an XR experience, digital artwork or game. The goal is to facilitate them building professional networks, meeting mentors and proposing a new interactive work within a safe and encouraging group of peers and mentors. There will be 12-15 participants in total with 4 mentors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/xr-stories-explores-the-future-of-broadcast-for-young-people/ |
| Description | The Immersive Economy in the UK and Beyond (Kate O'Connor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Catapult and Immerse UK gave a report called The immersive economy in the UK 2019 about developments in the immersive technology sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.immerseuk.org/resources/immersive-economy-report-2019/ |
| Description | The Neon Pack Sónar+D Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Nick Bax, XR Stories Research Fellow, was asked to give a presentation on the Project Area Stage to accompany the display of my creative practice research project 'The Neon Pack' at Sónar+D, Barcelona. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://sonar.es/en/activity/project-area-realitiesd-arvr |
| Description | The XR Stories 'Story So Far' Video |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Created the XR Stories 'Story So Far' video promoted via the XR Stories webpage and the XR Stories YouTube channel |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNUTR9cX_ls&t=4s |
| Description | UK 5G Futures Challenge Webinar (J. Rose Adams) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engage with UK creative industries businesses around the 5G Futures R&D Challenge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | UKAN Impactful Public Engagement Panellist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to be a panellists and discuss experiences in public engagement and working to promote STEM |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/ukan-impactful-public-engagement-event-programme |
| Description | UKRI Global Expert Mission Tokyo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Creative Producer Melodie Ash was invited to take part in a UKRI delegation of industry experts to Japan to explore the market landscape of XR technologies in Japan. Focusing on how Innovate UK can best support UK businesses to partner with businesses in Japan and provide evidence to support private/public investment to facilitate partnerships. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UoY website article on XR Stories internship programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories announces the launch of a new internship scheme. Internships available for Direct SMEs and HEIs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/xr-stories-launches-new-internship-scheme/ |
| Description | UoY website article on XR Stories virtual internship programme (N.Thomis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories is here to help businesses in Yorkshire and the Humber unlock the potential of virtual and in-person internships through our dedicated scheme launching soon. From 1 July 2020, this new scheme will allow your business to access support to find an intern as well as providing up to 100% of the funding. We'll help you scope out your project, advertise the opportunity across our networks, and present you with a range of candidates. Read on to find out more about how virtual internships can help your business. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2020/business/intern-xrstories-scheme |
| Description | User-testing the 'Escape the Dark' Sky project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Dr Lauren Ward held a user-testing session in the XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab for the 'Escape the Dark' XR Stories R&D project with Sky, testing to see how the experience was perceived by those who were blind or partially sighted. The results and feedback were used to inform changes to the game build and make the experience more user friendly. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://reflexarc.co.uk/projects/sky-xrstories-the-rising |
| Description | Viridian FX workshop as part of Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories hosted and co-facilitated a workshop, alongside Viridian FX, on the fundamentals of virtual production as part of the Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2023. This workshop emerged from the existing collaboration between Viridian FX and XR Stories, and was delivered in the XR Stories lab, using XR Stories equipment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://issuu.com/aesthetica_magazine/docs/aesthetica-short-film-festival_2023?fr=sYzEyMzYzMjc4NDk |
| Description | Virtual Production Event at Xplor One, Production Park |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Open event to launch Virtual Production and the possibilities it has with industry in the region, discussion, panels and presentations chaired by Robin Cramp |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Virtual Production Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A combination of creative businesses and academics attended the 'Immersive Filmmaking: An Introduction to the Power of Virtual Production' held in the XR Stories Guildhall R&D Lab, in collaboration with Viridian FX. Participants were interested and impressed with the VP capabilties that can be achieved with a green screen and were interested in a follow-up session with the lab's LED wall, once that is in place. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Website Article on the Future of the XR Sector |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Website news piece published on the future of the XR sector |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/survey-on-the-future-of-the-xr-sector/ |
| Description | Website Article on the XR Sector's Economic Impact (N.Thomis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Website Article published on the XR Sector's Contribution to the UK Economy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/the-xr-sectors-economic-contribution/ |
| Description | Website article launching the Young XR R&D Cohort |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Launching a news piece detailing information about two projects in the R&D Young XR Cohort. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/two-projects-funded-through-our-young-xr-call-details-announced/ |
| Description | Website article on supporting XR Businesses |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Publishing news piece on supporting more businesses to innovate in storytelling |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/xr-stories-is-supporting-more-businesses-to-innovate-in-storytelling/ |
| Description | Website article on the Young XR R&D Cohort |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | News article on Introducing two projects funded through our Strategic XR call |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/introducing-two-projects-funded-through-our-strategic-xr-call/ |
| Description | Website update on R&D Project Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Website article on how new XR Stories projects are making a mark on immersive storytelling |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/new-projects-ready-to-make-their-mark-on-immersive-and-interactive-storytell... |
| Description | Website update on R&D Project Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Website news article on two new launched R&D projects set to innovate in digital storytelling |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/two-new-projects-set-to-innovate-in-digital-storytelling/ |
| Description | Wired for Sound: Engineering future audio experiences and new sound worlds through creative digital technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited seminar as part of a regular series at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, for an audience of academics, students and industry colleagues, disseminating recent audio and acoustics research and related to trends in immersive audio content. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.kth.se/en/2.81829/calendar/seminars/wired-for-sound-engineering-future-audio-experiences... |
| Description | Workshop - Joining the Dots: the power of creative networks (J. Swords) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participation in a workshop about building creative industries networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Workshop on 360 filmaking |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 6 regional businesses attended the workshop which involved learning how to use a 360 camera for film making, and the post-processing pipeline. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/event/mastering-360-filmmaking/ |
| Description | Workshop on 3D Scanning technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 7 regional businesses attended the workshop, which included practical use of the 3D scanners available in the XR Stories Guildhall lab. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/event/mastering-3d-capture/ |
| Description | Workshop on Research Project Management (Jon Swords) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 20 researchers and practitioners attended a workshop about doing project management on research projects. Jon Swords was invited to contribute and share how XR Stories worked. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Workshop on Spatial Audio |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 3 regional businesses attended the workshop, covering aspects of spatial audio recording and mixing techniques for creative projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/event/mastering-spatial-audio/ |
| Description | XR Stories Betajester Project Output |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | BetaJester develop an immersive VR storyworld based on XR Stories R&D Project Funding |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/betajester-develop-an-immersive-vr-storyworld/ |
| Description | XR Stories Climate Change R&D Project: Home Planet (SAIL) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Home Planet is one of XR Stories' R&D Projects as part of the 2022 Climate Change call, delivered by a regional business (SAIL) and partners, and demonstrating innovation in immersive and interactive digital storytelling around key Climate Change issues |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/home-planet/ |
| Description | XR Stories Climate Change R&D Project: In Here Out There (Live Cinema) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | In Here, Out There is one of XR Stories' R&D Projects as part of the 2022 Climate Change call, delivered by a regional business (Live Cinema) and partners and demonstrating innovation in immersive and interactive digital storytelling around key Climate Change issues |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/in-here-out-there/ |
| Description | XR Stories Climate Change R&D Project: The Gyre (Field) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Gyre is one of XR Stories' R&D Projects as part of the 2022 Climate Change call, delivered by a regional business (Field Studio) and partners and demonstrating innovation in immersive and interactive digital storytelling around key Climate Change issues |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/the-gyre/ |
| Description | XR Stories Culture and Heritage event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The XR Stories' Culture and Heritage event was a series of talks and demonstrations showcasing emerging relationships and projects between XR (eXtended Reality) and the culture and heritage sector. The event addressed the relationship between the culture and heritage and XR sectors and how they can work together to overcome current and future challenges. It also provided an opportunity for networking and to see some interactive demonstrations of projects using XR to explore culture and heritage. Keynotes were international Partners from the University of Sorbonne, and partners from Italy also attended. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.museumdevelopmentyorkshire.org.uk/xr-stories-culture-and-heritage-event/ |
| Description | XR Stories Interships Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories website update with details of our internship programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/xr-stories-supporting-local-businesses-with-internship-funding/ |
| Description | XR Stories Introduces Ready Player One at the Bradford Science and Media Museum Widescreen Weekend |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Provided an introduction to the XR Stories project as a prelude to the film Ready Player One at the Science and Media Museum Widescreen Weekend, Bradford, 10 Oct. 2019. This introduced XR stories to a broader audience in context of the film "Ready Player One". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | XR Stories Place-based R&D Project Featured in Sheffield Telegraph article about Park Hill, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories featured in Sheffield Telegraph's article "Virtual experience transforms Sheffield's Park Hill into a 'time machine in which community and pride shine through' ", based on one of our place based R&D Projects focused on Park Hill, Sheffield. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/people/virtual-experience-transforms-sheffields-park-hill-... |
| Description | XR Stories Place-based R&D Project featured in Yorkshire Post article on Park Hill, Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories featured in Yorkshire Post article on Park Hill, Sheffield, as it marks its 60th birthday, based on one of our place based R&D Projects focused on Park Hill, Sheffield. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.pressreader.com/uk/yorkshire-post-property/20210703/281560883778057 |
| Description | XR Stories Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Launched The XR Stories Podcast on Podbean : A series of 10 conversations with creative industries companies who have been supported by XR Stories, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xrstoriespodcast.podbean.com/e/welcome-to-the-xr-stories-podcast |
| Description | XR Stories Podcast Season 2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Launched Season 2 of The XR Stories Podcast on Podbean: A series of 10 conversations with industry and academics centred around different aspects of Virtual Production |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/about/the-xr-stories-podcast/ |
| Description | XR Stories R&D Funding Opportunities at Leeds Beckett University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Promoted specific funding activities for potential projects. Resulted in planning for funding projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | XR Stories R&D Funding Opportunities at Sheffield Region |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Promoted specific funding activities for potential projects. Resulted in planning for funding projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | XR Stories Soft Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Informed audience of XR stories mission plan through discussion and demos. Allowed XR Stories to start networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | XR Stories Strategic XR R&D: Two Further Projects Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Launch of two new XR Stories Strategic XR Projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/two-new-strategic-xr-projects-funded/ |
| Description | XR Stories Strategic XR R&D: Two Projects Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Introducing the XR Scenographic Tool R&D project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/introducing-block-an-xr-scenographic-tool/ |
| Description | XR Stories Updates in Sheffield Digital (N.Thomis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories' internship programme highlighted in Sheffield Digital |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://sheffield.digital/posts/need-help-on-your-next-xr-project/ |
| Description | XR Stories and Pilot Theatre: News article (N. Thomis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | How York-based Pilot theatre is giving voice and hope to young people |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-culture/theatre-and-stage/how-york-based-pilot-theatre-givi... |
| Description | XR Stories and SIGN office and facilities launch event at York Guildhall and to showcase some of the extended reality outputs and experiences emerging from partnerships with creatives and businesses in the Yorkshire and Humber region. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 120 attendees from academia and business joined an event to launch the new XR Stories facilities at the York Guildhall to find out about the work that has taken place and opportunities for new collaborations, support and funding. This included a showcase of some of the project's extended reality outputs and experiences emerging from partnerships with creatives and businesses in the Yorkshire and Humber region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | XR Stories at Game Republic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Game Republic are the largest professional network for those working in the games industry in the North of England. John Rose-Adams from XR Stories presented on our R&D activities and research funding opportunties to an audience of 20 game industry professionals at a York based Game Republic event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | XR Stories at The Night of Ideas, Institut français du Royaume-Uni |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presenting the work of XR Stories at The Night of Ideas hosted at Institut français du Royaume-Uni, London, 20 January 2020. Connected with other groups present to make plans for future activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | XR Stories at the Beyond Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories showcased a range of R&D projects at the 2022 Beyond conference in Cardiff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://beyondconference.org/ |
| Description | XR Stories featured in Sir Peter Bazalgette's article in the The Times, October 2021. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Featured in the article "Creative industries have come of age but need more support" by Sir Peter Bazalgette, Thursday October 28 2021, The Times |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/creative-industries-have-come-of-age-but-need-more-support-pvq5bj... |
| Description | XR Stories presenting at Game Republic/Barclays Eagle Lab Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An industry event delivered by XR Stories in partnership with Game Republic and Barclays Eagle Labs, the event showcased the latest XR products and service from across the UK and featured talks and panels by leading practitioners and businesses. 150 attendees from across the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://games.creative.barclays/events/xr-virtual-production-beyond/ |
| Description | XR Stories presenting at Tech York event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An industry event delivered by XR Stories for Tech York and Barclays Eagle Labs, the event showcased the latest XR Stories projects and research to a local tech community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | XR Stories showcase as part of Screen Yorkshire Flex Programme (XR Stories Creative Producer Melodie Ash) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | FLEX is XR Stories' partner Screen Yorkshire's innovative response to the rapidly changing TV & Film sector. The programme, launched in June 2021, is supporting 29 writers, directors and producers to develop dynamic, authentic and fluid stories fit for 2021 and beyond. Its fundamental goal is to work with talent to support the development of innovative stories which connect to diverse new audiences. Melodie Ash as part of XR Stories were involved in a workshop on the 13th October 2021, to showcase the creative potential of XR technologies and immersive storytelling to engage with audiences in innovative new ways. The event consisted of a presentation of XR Stories to introduce the cohort to our support offering and funding programme in the region, followed by a panel session with XR Stories funded SMEs, Tyke Films, Human Studio and Cooperative Innovations. We then conducted a VR content showcase which presented both XR Stories projects and leading industry VR content. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.screenyorkshire.co.uk/flex/ |
| Description | York Festival of Ideas: Spooker Trouper: ABBA Voyage and the rise of digital ghosts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A one hour presentation by Dr Jenna Ng and XR Stories Research Fellow Nick Bax on their research surrounding the 2022 virtual representation of ABBA within a live music setting, chaired by Professor John Robinson. The recording of the talk has subsequently relied in excess of 600+ views via the York Festival of Idea's YouTube channel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1hIa2HpDNo |
| Description | York Science Park website article on XR Stories virtual internship programme (N.Thomis) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Internship Programme advertised via York Science Park |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.yorksciencepark.co.uk/xr-stories-launch-new-internships-scheme/ |
| Description | York Talks - Immersed in the Future |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | York Talks is an annual event to promote and disseminate leading research from the University of York to our wider community. This presentation was invited to highlight the AHRC Creative Media Labs project which will harness immersive and interactive digital technologies to develop innovative and commercially viable models for the next generation of screen storytelling. It introduced the project, the partners and wider aims, and highlighted the potential impact it will have on the city of York, the wider region and nationally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/research/events/yorktalks/ |
| Description | YorkTalks: The AI Story Crisis (XR Stories Research Fellow Jenn Chubb) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Hundreds of staff, students and members of the public from York and across the globe joined us online on 12 January for YorkTalks 2022. York academics explained their research in a series of fascinating 15-minute presentations. Subjects ranged from plastic pollution in the Galapagos, to child mental health and indoor air pollution. Jenn Chubb, XR Stories Research Fellow spoke about how AI is represented in story. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/Zqqk7-NvSMY |
| Description | Yorkshire Games Festival: Talk about XR Stories (Caroline White) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Caroline White spoke about future of XR Stories at Yorkshire Games Festival. Led to requests for information about future events and funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Yorkshire Games Festival: careers surgeries (Caroline White) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Discussed future careers in immersive media with students at Yorkshire Games Festival. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Young XR: Awesome Animal Safari |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Young XR R&D webpage for the Awsome Animals Safari Project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/awesome-animals-safari/ |
| Description | Young XR: Blockout VR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Young XR R&D webpage for the BlockoutVR Project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/blockout/ |
| Description | Young XR: Change Maker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Young XR R&D webpage for the Change Maker Project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/change-maker/ |
| Description | Young XR: Space, Time and Streets in the Sky |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Young XR R&D webpage for the Space, Time and Streets in the Sky Project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/space-time-and-streets-in-the-sky/ |
| Description | Young XR: TRUSTD |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Young XR R&D webpage for the TRUSTD Project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/trustd/ |
| Description | Young XR: The Happiness Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Published Young XR R&D webpage for The Happiness Project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://xrstories.co.uk/project/happiness-project |
| Description | Zulfiya Hamzaki Presentation (DCIC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | XR Stories Researcher Zulfiya Hamzaki delivered a 15 minute presentation as part of the multidisciplinary conference on Digital Creativity, Industry and Culture (DCIC) at the University of York's School of Arts and Creative Technologies. The presentation was followed by audience Q and A with the panel that sparked discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |