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Signals XR Lab 2025

Featuring Exclusive XR Projects

Signals Creative Tech Expo, Oct 3 - 12, 2025 | DigiBC Studio, Vancouver, BC

Immerse Yourself - Step Into Boundless Extended Reality (XR)

XR Lab returns to Signals 2025 with new bold, immersive projects on the cutting edge of XR exploring Indigenous storytelling, speculative futures, and digital artistry.
Back for its third year, XR LAB is a platform for BC-based creators to push the boundaries of storytelling through virtual, augmented, and mixed reality. Taking place at the core of the expo, the XR Lab is uniquely bold, and uniquely ‘Signals’. This year’s theme—“Indigenous Realities, Collective Futures”—has sparked powerful, imaginative work that asks what XR can do when guided by community, land, and radical creativity.

Meet the XR Lab 2025 Projects

Rewind

Rewind is a VR journaling experience designed to create a safe, private, and tactile space for users to express themselves through voice, sound or letters.

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Echoes of Me

Echoes of Me is an experience that invites participants into an intimate dialogue with themselves through an immersive XR journey inspired by research on self-compassion and perspective-taking in VR.

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Game [4 Vancouver]

Game [4 Vancouver] is a live, interactive performance that merges digital technology with urban exploration, transforming public space into a dynamic stage.

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Intergenerational mural

Imagining Good Futures: Thunderbird Dreams is an intergenerational XR mural that unites Indigenous youth, Elders, artists, and technologists in a shared exploration of care, sustainability, unity, and kinship.

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Putting XR Creators in the Spotlight

The Signals XR Lab is a one-of-a-kind platform for creators working in XR, virtual production, and immersive storytelling. Every year since 2022, creators have had the opportunity to make a splash by showcasing their projects on the world stage at Signals Creative Tech Expo. This year, from October 3-12, the Signals XR Lab is back to offer the structure, tools, and guidance needed to bring bold ideas to life.
Lab participants can take advantage of:
  • Hands-on mentorship from leading voices in the industry, including Loretta Todd, Loc Dao, Debi Wong, and guest advisors from the Signals Alumni network
  • Access to cutting-edge tech through the Signals XR Hardware Library (headsets, mocap rigs, gaming computers, and more)
  • Professional and compassionate support to help prepare a project for public exhibition at Signals 2025

Curatorial Team

Loretta Sarah Todd

IM4 Lab

Debi Wong

re:Naissance Opera

Loc Dao

DigiBC

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