Thursday 5 June 2025, 1.30pm - 6.45pm
Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub, Jesus College, Oxford
Registration if free, but required.
Curious about extended reality, AI, and the Metaverse? Want to experience cutting-edge technology firsthand and meet the researchers and innovators behind it?
Then don’t miss Immers-eXpo 2025 — Oxford’s annual showcase of immersive technologies. Now in its 6th year, this special edition focuses on the growing intersection of AI and XR (extended reality), with industry experts and leading academics exploring how these technologies are transforming research and innovation. Expect hands-on demonstrations, interactive exhibits, networking opportunities, and lightning talks covering fields from cultural heritage, development, urban space, engineering and beyond.
Programme:
1.30pm Doors open and time to browse stalls
2.30pm Talks
3.30pm Time to browse stalls
4.30pm Talks
5.30pm Networking reception
6.45pm Event finishes
Speakers:
Prof Dejan Draschkow (Adaptive Behaviour & Cognition Lab, University of Oxford) - Immersive Cognition: studying complex cognitive processes using VR
Prof Fridolin Wild (Institute of Educational Technology of The Open University) - Reality embedded learning for space with AI
Dr Claudio Cortes Rodriguez (Institute of Developmental & Regenerative Medicine, University of Oxford) - Rhythms of the Growing Heart: Exploring Cellular Choreography Through Science and Art
Dr Avar Almukhtar (Senior Lecturer at the School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University) - Reimagining the Built Environment through XR
Dr Giovanni Pala (Faculty of History, University of Oxford) & Romée van Oostenbrugge(Utrecht University) - 3D Scans of ship models as a source for the history of navigation
Dr Mattia Montanari (Principal Engineer, PhysicsX) - AI and Engineering - Today’s landscape and tomorrow’s horizon
Alice Wroe (XR Lead, Atlantic Institute) - When you give yourself to machine learning and watch yourself walk away...
Azmat Hossain (Director, Extended Robotics) - How VR enabled robots will shape future work in Industries
Myles Greyson (VirtualSpeech) - Leveraging XR and AI for Workplace Readiness
Yin-Chien Yeap (Founder, Playko) - Lost in Spaces? Explore, engage, embrace immersion
Dr. Lia Costiner (Utrecht University) - The Oxford X-Reality Hub
For more information, email oxr@eng.ox.ac.uk or digitalhub@jesus.ox.ac.uk, and visit us at The Oxford X-Reality Hub.
The event is co-organised by the Oxford X-Reality Hub and the Jesus College Digital Hub, in collaboration with Utrecht University and support from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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