Welcome to Helsinki XR Center – the Home of Extended Reality!

Helsinki XR Center is an incubator for talent in the field of virtual and augmented reality (VR & AR). Follow us on the journey of becoming the largest extended reality dedicated innovation, development and startup center in the Nordics!

XR Hub

Our XR Hub offers shared workspace, equipment, co-learning and mentoring for teams in their early phase of VR and AR development. Get to know our teams and operations!

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Showroom & services

Take a look at our state-of-the-art XR Showroom presenting the fruits of Finnish XR, or maybe you want to book a time for your own XR Workshop!

Events

We actively arrange meetups, workshops, showcases and other events for XR people. Take a look at our upcoming events!

Events

The planning of next year’s event is underway: Match XR 2020 will take place on 18th Nov 2020.

6–7 February 2021 – Skeleton Conductor XR Art at Side Step Festival

During 6.–7 February 2021, Skeleton Conductor XR Art – an inclusive, individual virtual reality (VR) art experience – will be available at Helsinki XR Center’s showroom as part of the Side Step Festival.

TBA – Match XR 2021

Match XR is an experimental immersive technology conference and get-together in virtual reality.

Planning of our next year’s Match XR 2021 event is underway! We are already looking for sponsors and partners – send us a message [email protected] if your company or organization is interested to be a part of our event next year!

If you missed Match XR 2020 – or simply wish to take a moment to reminisce the presentations of Match XR 2020 – have a look at this video on Youtube.

Take also a look at Match XR official website here!

XR Workshops

We are actively arranging private workshops and other visits to the Helsinki XR Center and XR Showroom.

If you are interested in arranging a workshop with us, read more about our services from this link.

News

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News

Helsinki XR Center 2020 wrap-up – The year of the Pandemic

Needless to say, year 2020 was very unusual, as the COVID-19 pandemic emerged across the globe and affected everybody’s businesses. In this post we are describing shortly what the year 2020 meant for us and what we managed to do in spite of it all.

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About Us

HELSINKI XR CENTER …

Supports Finnish XR startups by for example offering office space and equipment, mentoring and access to the Finnish XR community,
Organizes various XR events for networking purposes, and
Carries out RDI (research, development & innovation) projects with universities.

IN ADDITION, HXRC …

Offers various services such as XR Workshops, and
Works very closely with Metropolia UAS’s XR Design Degree.

Helsinki XR Center – the home of Extended Realities – opened its doors in early 2019.

Located in Helsinki Arabia next to Metropolia University of Applied Sciences culture campus, Helsinki XR Center (HXRC) is an incubator for talent, a cultural hub for co-creation and learning for all XR artists, entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, students and enthusiasts.

HXRC aims to become the largest innovation, development and startup center in the Nordics dedicated to VR and AR technologies.

HXRC is operated by Metropolia University of Applied Sciences together with Finnish Virtual Reality Association FIVR. The Center is powered by the City of Helsinki, Business Finland.

WHAT IS XR?

XR means Extended Reality, an umbrella term for technologies that create, augment and merge digital elements with physical space. They are also known as immersive technologies.

XR consists of VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality) and MR (Mixed Reality).