For the past year, Lauri Kuusisto has been doing his non-military service at the Helsinki XR Center. For him, combining programming and XR technologies was a dream come true!
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Recruiting: Technology specialist
The HXRC team is looking for a technology specialist! The specialist will be in charge of application development in HXRC projects.
HXRC Team: Producer to be! Trainee summer with King’s Road: Renascence
This summer, Lumi joined the HXRC team as a trainee. She headed out to capture and preserve the attractions of the historic King’s Road on a 360 camera.
Happy Midsummer from the Helsinki XR Center team!
Happy Midsummer, everyone! Behind the curtains we have shuffled the team, moved, and greeted new hub teams. Now it’s time to relax!
Meet the HXRC team: Essi Leivo
Meet Essi Leivo, the Events and Collaboration Specialist at Helsinki XR Center. Essi is in charge of Match XR and industry collaboration.
Helsinki XR Center 2020 wrap-up – The year of the Pandemic
Take a look how the year of 2020 was like for the HXRC team, and check out what we managed to do in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic!
Helsinki XR Center featured on IteWiki
An article about Helsinki XR Center was recently published on a Finnish digital industry focused online magazine called IteWiki.
HXRC Team’s summer greetings!
The HXRC Team will be starting summer vacations soon, but our social media channels and website will still be full of life! Stay posted!
HXRC Team: Insights about working remotely in virtual reality
This spring the HXRC team tested out several platforms for working in VR. This article covers the insights on that experiment.
HXRC Team: Creating a Virtual Helsinki XR Center
Meet the XR developer interns Mikko & Veli-Matti, who are working to create a virtual Helsinki XR Center in VR!
HXRC Team: Testing Mozilla Hubs, a mobile-friendly VR platform
In the midst of working from home, Helsinki XR Center team is testing Mozilla Hubs, a mobile-friendly VR platform.
HXRC Team: Testing VRChat, a community creation focused social VR application
Due to the pandemic, the HXRC team is testing out virtual coworking tools. Does VRChat work as a professional platform?