John Rose Adams & Caroline White
University of York.
XR Stories.

XR Stories will establish the Yorkshire
and Humber Screen Industries Cluster as
the UK Centre of Excellence in Immersive
and Interactive Digital Storytelling.
XR Stories is a £15m
investment in R&D for the
Yorkshire and Humber Screen
Industries Cluster.

Research Industry

Collaborative R&D
Enriching the visual environments of
interactive story-driven games
Moving from 2D to 3D
and
Retaining hand-drawn visual style
while
Managing production costs

Strategic XR R&D
Old Jim’s Library of Forgotten
Curiosity and Infinite Adventure
This R&D project brings academic expertise in
game design and narrative together with Fierce
Kaiju and regional coding and sound expertise to:
• Identify best practice for player interaction and
interweaving of story and interaction that is
intuitive, coherent, and engaging
• Deliver a polished prototype of Old Jim
• Development and deliver pitch at GDC 2020

Collaborative R&D
By the rising tide of Humber:
Flooding Andrew Marvell’s Hull in VR
Masters by Research
Digital Storytelling with Amarna3D

More Masters by
Research
Lag-free audio
communication in a multi-
user virtual reality
environment
How do immersive
storytelling technologies
have the capacity to
generate personal meaning?

Strategic XR R&D Fund.
To enable SMEs to collaborate with researchers on R&D challenges.
• SmallGrants
Up to £30,000 for early stage R&D
• LargeGrants
Up to £100,000 -late stage R&D focused on strong market intelligence to enable
development to final marketplaces, clients, or investors.

Strategic XR R&D FundR&D focused on strong market intelligence to enable development to final marketplaces, clients, or investors
.
Dec2019
Jan2020
Feb2020
Mar2020
Mar2020
Rolling Deadline Projects Start

Young XR Fund
£5,000- £30,000 to explore the future of digital storytelling for young audiences
.
Feb2020
Apr2020
Jul2020
Oct2020
Childrens Media
Conference
Application Deadline Projects Start

XR Stories Funding Criteria:
Collaboration:
Between XR Stories partners to include at least one industry and one academic partner.
Co-created R&D:
Developed by the project partners with the industry partner being the primary beneficiary of the
R&D activity.
Co-funding:
Partners must support the project through their own cash/in-kind support to unlock the funding
that XR Stories holds.
Shared IP:
A model that is flexible and supportive with the maximum opportunity for successful leverage of
any IP created.

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