XR:WA 2023 Opens Today
Australia’s Leading Independent Film Festival
XR:WA 2023 Opens Today
It’s on again for 2023 and it opens today and it’s completely free!
For four days, XR:WA explores the dynamic and fascinating world of immersive technology across VR, AR, games and everything in between.
Featuring talks and presentations from local, national and international guests, the program includes sessions looking at pitching your ideas, building your business, what funding agencies are up to, working with music and soundscapes in VR and games, documentary in VR, building creative ecosystems, VR and immersive in architecture and engineering and a host of other meaty sessions.
On show on Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 July, the WA Museum Boola Bardip will play host to around 30 local and international playable games, more than 30 new internationally acclaimed Augmented Reality works and around 20 VR experiences. These include international award winners and the local works are accompanied by the developers themselves.
We’re kicking off today with a free workshop session from 12-4.30pm examining the nature of ’the pitch’ with our international guest Jason Della Rocca followed by a full day of talks and workshops on Friday both at the WA State Library so we’d love to see you there.
Doors open and sessions start across the next four days at 10.30am-5pm, so if you're interested in these new and exciting forms, it’s all on offer for any and all ages. If a careerin games and immersive is for you, so is XR:WA.
Sessions feature:
Thursday July 21
12-2pm - What’s in a Pitch Pt 1
2.30-4.30 - What’s in a Pitch Pt 2
State Library WA
Friday July 22
11am-4pm - Workshop: Game Business Bootcamp
10.30am -12pm - Panel: What the Blazes are Funding Agencies Doing?
12.30-1.45pm - Panel: Factual Convergence in Immersive
2.15-3.30pm - VR and Immersive in Urban Planning, Architecture & Engineering
3.45-5pm - Don’t Shoot the Messenger: The Implications of AI
State Library WA
Saturday July 22
10.30am-5pm - Games and Experience Emporium
10.30-1.30pm - Workshop: Imagining New Narratives
10.30-11.45pm - Talk: Finding Your Funding & Audience
1-45-.2.45pm - Talk: AI Disruption and Opportunity
2-4.45pm - Workshop: Designing Game and VR Soundscapes
3.30-4.45pm - Panel: Building Business Ecosystems
Sunday July 23
10.30am-5pm - Games and Experience Emporium
10.30-1.30pm - Workshop: Funding Models and Being Venture Investible
12-1.30pm: Talk: Exploring Narrative Forms
2-3.15pm - Panel: Working with Music in Games
2-4.45pm - Workshop: Imagining New Worlds
See the full program and exhibits here: xrwa.com.au - and it’s completely free.
XR:WA is presented by the Revelation Perth International Film Festival and is supported by the Australian and Western Australian governments through Screenwest, Lotterywest, Screen Australia and the City of Perth.
