What XR-related events are coming up soon?

Executive summary

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Analysis

What XR-related events are coming up soon? Quite a few, actually:

• Krakow Film Festival is running an XR strand this year, which has also just started.

• AWE USA is happening from 18 June, this year in Long Beach in California.

• I have an event too! 20 June, in-person in London.

• XR Fair Tokyo, which is what it says on the tin, is happening 3 July.

• Finally, Siggraph, a big conference on interaction techniques and computing, is happening 28 July.

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Other notable stories

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• Blender Starts Here is a challenge which lets 3D artists learn the program.

• HTC VIVE announced its latest summer promotions that will be running from 20 May to 30 June.

• Karta announced new hires from Tommy Hilfiger, Epic Games and Emperia. 

• The Park Playground expanded into Porto, Portugal, and is set to open on 24 June.

• Raindance Immersive commences on 1 June, with the month-long online festival running till 30 June in VRChat.

• Resolution Games announced that Demeo for Apple Vision Pro is now available on the visionOS App Store.

• Swave unveiled full spatial colour for its proprietary Holographic eXtended Reality (HXR) technology.

• Unity announced its Unity for Humanity Grant winners.

• VITURE announced the launch of VITURE Pro.

• “What If…? – An Immersive Story is coming to Apple Vision Pro for free on 30 May. 

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