AVimmerse founder Keith Myers has been selected from hundreds of applicants to join an exclusive programme run by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The milestone supports AVimmerse’s mission to build immersive, place-based heritage experiences through digital storytelling, XR, and emerging technologies.

A practitioner’s perspective on where immersive technology is really heading. Drawing on nearly a decade of work across AR, mixed reality, mapping and heritage, this Manchester Tech Festival keynote looks beyond hype to focus on meaningful, place-based experiences.

Professor Bob Stone explores how digital visualisation and extended reality techniques can help interpret submerged landscapes and communicate hidden histories responsibly.

Professor Trevor Cox explores how scale modelling and acoustic research can help assess the prehistoric soundscape of Stonehenge and inform heritage interpretation.

Juan Hiriart explores how videogame technology can be used to preserve and interpret Indigenous cultural heritage, drawing on his work with the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island.

A recorded discussion bringing together researchers and practitioners to explore how heritage and technology can work together to help audiences engage more meaningfully with history and place.

A heritage film commission at Salford Lads Club exploring a mysterious 1939 photograph, community memory, and the living role of place in social history.