About
Based in Leeds, UK and founded in June 2019. Our mission is to build a
university-wide platform for students, academics and external organisations
to collaborate, innovate and shape the future of Extended Reality.
The ultimate goal for this society is to bring students from different
courses, skillsets and passions together to build immersive experiences that create a
positive change in society. We will be using virtual, augmented and mixed reality
technologies to create projects that can be used to shape the future of education,
medicine, design, geography, computing, psychology, engineering, business and more.
We deem it very important to work closely with external organisations and academics
throughout the events we hold.
We will work to fill the skills gap in the technological/digital field and encourage
contacts to be made with future employers. We want to be a go-to hub and resource
for researchers/lecturers wanting to do AR/VR research at the university.
Leeds XR Society aims to be a powerhouse for innovation and a bridge between
academia and industry. In future, we want our society’s model to be replicated
across other university’s as the importance of XR for students is realised.
