Live Demos

Meet William Shakespeare face-to-face, stand before Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn as royal intrigue unfolds, hear Winston Churchill’s iconic words resonate around you, and witness the tension and drama of the gunpowder plot brought vividly to life in mixed reality.

Blending live performance, immersive storytelling and cutting-edge technology, Xtra Reality transforms the world around you into a living historical stage. Guided by a host, you journey through a series of interactive scenes where legendary figures and pivotal moments from British history appear seamlessly within your surroundings.

History is stepping out of the past and into the present.

Explore the creative potential of robotics within traditional craft practices, and how the two might work in dialogue to make something that is neither entirely handmade nor fully machine fabricated.

Hand Thought is a collaborative research project from Justin Marshall, a digital craft practitioner and Northumbria University professor, and Tavs Jorgensen with his team at the Bridge Studios and the Centre for Print Research at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Uncover an alternative way to capture the scale and urgency of sea level rise. Bringing geographic and flood data to life inside video game engines, this project seeks to overcome the limitations of 2D maps, creating immersive visualisations and simulations that more effectively convey the consequences of rising sea levels on the landscapes and communities of the past, present and future.

Initiated by artist and researcher Louis Nixon at Norwich University of the Arts in 2022. Project team: Toby Hills, Louis Nixon, Ben Stopher and Liam Wells.