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SUMMARY:Making Social VR Safe\, Accessible\, and Meaningful
DESCRIPTION:  \nIt’s been a hot minute\, but we’re back with another event at Colony King Street on Wednesday\, 29th April. We’ll have a full news update (lots to unpack there)\, a talk from Virtuware Founder Hamza Qureshi on Social VR\, plus a few demos to dive into. \nLagan’s Healthcare are graciously sponsoring pizza and drinks for all of us this time round – thanks to Carren Bell for organising this! Carren will also be giving us a little update on what they’ve been up to in the Immersive Space. \n\n\nWe’re also very excited to be helping baptise the new Colony King Street co-working space as they once again open their doors to our own particular brand of tech meetup nerdery. \n\nSchedule\n\n6:00pm: Doors open\, registration\, demos and networking.\n7:00pm: Immersive News & Community Updates\n7:30pm: Main speaker: Hamza Qureshi – Beyond the Chaos: Designing Safe\, Accessible\, and Meaningful Social VR.\n8:00pm: More networking and demos.\n9:30pm: Event end\, after-drinks (venue TBC)\n\nTalk Details\nBeyond the Chaos: Designing Safe\, Accessible\, and Meaningful Social VR\nWith massive social platforms already dominating the VR landscape\, why build a brand-new one? In this talk\, Virtuware founder Hamza Qureshi will share the strategic decisions and real-world challenges behind creating his new social platform\, StageTime. Drawing on years of experience building massive VR spaces and working inside major social platforms\, Hamza will explore the specific gaps he identified in the market. He will discuss how existing platforms often cater heavily to hardcore ‘enthusiasts’ at the expense of casual users\, leading to bloated interfaces\, chaotic environments\, and high user friction. This session dives into the realities of designing a virtual ‘third place’ optimised for standalone headsets\, human-centric expression\, and healthy community building. Attendees will leave with candid insights into what it takes to build a seamless and meaningful immersive community from scratch.\n \nAbout Hamza\nHamza Qureshi is the Founder of Virtuware Ltd\, an immersive technology company based in MediaCityUK. He has been building experiences in virtual reality since 2016\, initially making his mark by creating one of the most popular karaoke spaces in VR. After spending several years working internally at VRChat\, Hamza took his deep understanding of virtual communities and founded StageTime – a platform dedicated to immersive social experiences. He is passionate about the evolution of the metaverse\, community building\, and the unique design challenges of social VR.\n\n \nDemo Details\nStudio Liddell\nStudio Liddell is a multi-BAFTA nominated creative studio at the forefront of animation\, immersive storytelling\, and next-generation interactive experiences. With a heritage spanning high-end CGI production through to cutting-edge XR development. \n \nKnown for delivering award-recognised content including BooSnoo! for Sky Kids\, Studio Liddell is once again stepping into location-based entertainment with Battleverse – a scalable mixed-reality platform designed for high-energy\, social gameplay. \n \nSpellcaster\, is the initial flagship game and is intended to be highly accessible for all ages and venues.\n \n \nBattleverse | Spellcaster\nStep into Battleverse: Spellcaster—a thrilling mixed reality experience that transforms any space into a living\, breathing arena of magic and mild mayhem. Designed for the latest generation of immersive play\, Spellcaster invites players to dodge\, cast\, and compete as they harness ‘Water\, Fire and Ice’ elemental powers to try and defeat their opposing team. Fast-paced\, intuitive\, and endlessly replayable\, it blends the physical energy of sport with the spectacle of cinematic gaming—delivering a high-impact\, social experience that’s as exhilarating to watch as it is to play. Perfect for all ages\, Battleverse redefines what’s possible in location-based entertainment.
URL:https://digitalcreatorsnetwork.com/event/making-social-vr-safe-accessible-and-meaningful/
LOCATION:Colony King Street\, 76 King Street\, Manchester\, M2 4NH
CATEGORIES:In person,XR
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SUMMARY:VR Manchester 10th July 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us at a 1 Circle Square to hear from a Silicon Valley XR veteran\, try some VR demos\, and (as always)\, join in the chat with immersive enthusiasts from Greater Manchester and beyond. \n\n\nWe’re so excited to be hosted by our old friends Bruntwood SciTech who will also be providing food and drink. Please join us in thanking them for their help in keeping our community alive. \nThe venue is just off Oxford Road. To find us\, come into Symphony Park opposite The Dancehouse/Northern Ballet School. Once you’ve found No1 Circle Square\, come into the main entrance and go up the open staircase in the main reception to the first floor. Follow it around to the left where we’ll be just above the main reception area. Look out for our banner stand to help you. \nPlease note there will be a well-trained\, fully domesticated dog present at our event. \nSchedule \n\n18:00: Check-in opens.\n18:30: Food and Drinks served\n19:00: Welcome & VR Industry Update\n19:20: Main speaker: Clorama Dorvilias – Lessons I’ve Learned Building XR at Scale: From Meta to Google)\n20:00: Community Announcements & Wrap Up\n20:05: More demos\, socialising etc\n21:00: End\, retire for chat and drinks to the Refuge\n\nTalk Details\nAs a veteran XR practitioner from Silicon Valley and now “across the pond\,” Clorama will share lessons learned from building immersive technologies at two of the world’s leading XR companies — Meta and Google. \nShe’ll unpack the different motivations that shaped each company’s approach to XR\, how content and partnership strategies evolved\, and what these teams look for when hiring or collaborating with developers and creators. \nFrom designing meaningful avatars to nurturing developer ecosystems — and navigating the tension between cutting-edge research and real-world product constraints — this talk will explore what it really takes to build XR at scale\, and how smaller teams can apply these insights without needing a billion-dollar budget. \n*** \nDemos \nImmersiV XP is a cutting-edge virtual reality training program designed exclusively for the hospitality industry. Alison Magee-Barker (Founder of ImmersivXP) will be demoing the latest prototype and looking for feedback. \nThe WieldVR OneStock is a high-end\, modular VR gunstock designed for serious VR FPS players. Community member Ryan Burnell will be sharing his model for you to try in tandem with the Quest 3. \nWe’re always on the hunt for more demos. If you have something you can share\, please fill in this form and let us know: https://forms.gle/kxKuFgzZnXBpJN929
URL:https://digitalcreatorsnetwork.com/event/vr-manchester-10th-july-2025/
LOCATION:Bruntwood Manchester\, No 1 Circle Square\, Manchester\, Manchester\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:In person,XR
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