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.
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.
IM4 Lab
The lab was founded in 2018 under the visionary leadership of Creative Director Loretta Todd and the Media Matriarchs. It empowers Indigenous creators through free, accessible workshops in VR/AR, Unreal Engine, animation, and game design, having already supported over 1,000 Indigenous artists and creators. Operating through Indigenous governance structures that prioritize cultural authenticity, the IM4 Lab creates sustainable pathways for Indigenous creators to lead digital innovation while preserving traditional knowledge systems. Their collaborative work includes Thunderbird Dreams, an intergenerational XR mural exploring care, sustainability, and kinship. Also featured is Shemanshe, Zachery C Longboy’s deeply personal XR exploration of belonging and identity as a Sixties Scoop survivor seeking his place within Sayisi Dene culture and community.
XR Lab Projects
Imagining Good Futures: Thunderbird Dreams
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.
Lili
In an Iranian city shrouded in secrets, Lili, the lonely wife of a militia commander, orchestrates a murder to secure her husband’s ascent within a corrupt regime.
Entropic Fields of Displacement
Entropic Fields of Displacement is an 8-channel audio video installation that brings together the lived experiences of women and marginalized gender individuals from West Asia, including Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Lebanon, whether living in their own cities or cities to which they have been displaced.
Voxelite
Voxelite is a volumetric light sculpture featuring over 20,000 LEDs arranged in a cubic lattice, transforming three-dimensional space into a photon playground.
TamagotchU
TamagotchU is an AI agent driven creature interact with collections of emotional data generated in real-time from audience.
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.
Rift x Voxelite
Step into the Kingdom of the Immortals in RIFT, an immersive interactive musical experience where you join the goddess Nüwa to save the world.
Fading Places
An otherworldly storm changes the city of Vancouver overnight, transforming its buildings into surreal, sentient spaces.
Transformation, by design
Step into a future where screen time fuels your transformation—by design.
Beats of Pride
Beats of Pride is an interactive XR installation that transports audiences to the 2019 World Pride March in New York City, experienced through the rhythms of the Poongmul Movement Builders—a Korean drumming team of queer Asians and allies.
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.
Tech A Jump
Tech A Jump is a vibrant, family-friendly celebration blending the soul of Caribbean Carnival with the magic of creative technology.
sumaxatkʷ (huckleberry)
sumaxatkʷ offers a beautiful prayer song and immersive experience to spark conversations about the beauty and importance of st̓xałq and land.
Digital Feast
What was taken can be made anew, the spirits of our ceremony wait for us to take up our lost practices and make new ones as the world opens up into the virtual.
Point of Reflection
Exploring themes of delayed trauma, race, confrontation, and introspection, Point of Reflection gives participants the opportunity to process all that has transpired over the past four years.
Protopica
Protopica is a realm where you can envision future possibilities and explore forgotten pasts.
Calling Home
Calling Home is a narrative roleplay set in the expansive world building platform of Aexia.
