Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The potential for games and immersive technologies to contribute to mental healthcare will be the focus of an important event coming to Dundee this autumn. The 2025 Mindset-XR Innovation In Mental Health Roadshow will take place at Abertay University on Thursday, 2nd October 2025. The event serves as a forum for innovators, clinicians, academics, and …
Dundee-based studio Pocket Sized Hands has revealed its involvement in the recently released Realize Music: Sing - a brand new Virtual Reality (VR) singing experience, which brings some of the world's biggest musical hits to gamers, singers and fans. The virtual reality application invites performers to lose themselves in an ever-growing catalogue of music with …
Edinburgh Theatre Announces Immersive Creatives Its First Ever Event For Immersive Creators, Developers & Students Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre - the home of new writing - is holding its first ever event for developers and creators working with immersive technology (VR/AR/XR/MR). Immersive Creatives is part of the theatre's Festival programme, taking place at 18:00 on August …
Independent Edinburgh VR developer Bearhammer Games, has released its debut title, Venture's Gauntlet, a challenging and immersive VR experience that blends parkour-inspired obstacle courses with compelling narrative, across a landcsape inspired by the Scottish highlands.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-_P6S83Chg A Legacy Tested: The Gauntlet Beckons The game throws players into the shoes of a hopeful heir vying for …
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Pocket Sized Hands, the Dundee-based VR expert is the studio behind the recently-released Smalland: Survive The Wilds VR edition - exclusively for MetaQuest. Published by Maximum Entertainment, Smalland: Survive the Wilds VR brings the towering open world of Smalland to players from a whole new perspective, as you explore, scavenge, craft and build across the …
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Immersive and AI focused education company The VR Hive has picked up 3 trophies - Startup of the Year, Most Innovative Startup, and Most Creative Startup at the Scottish Startup Awards
The VR Hive in Scotland has partnered with Redhill High School in Wales to create a new VR mental health app for kids aged 11 to 17
Dundee-based games studio Hyper Luminal Games is one of two studios to receive funding of £35,000 from the Inclusive Design for Immersive Experiences Challenge, alongside Sugar Creative. The challenge enables small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to work with InGAME, the StoryFutures Academy, Open Inclusion and XR Access, to create experimental inclusive innovation processes and pilots. …
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you have a VR headset, Glasgow School of Art research student Austin Wolf is inviting you to take part in a study about narrative engagement in VR - based upon Scottish folklore.
ChangingDay, a Glasgow-based start-up, has raised more than £670,000 to create virtual reality games for autistic people.