Virtual Trade Show

Virtual Trade Show aims to assist XR companies to recover from Covid-19 by improving their potential, business opportunities, and networking.

A screenshot of Match XR 2020 event at the VR Pavilion Finland virtual venue. One big screen and two smaller screens are used for presenting and virtual avatars are watching. The "evening sun" has coloured everything purple.

STATUS: Active
TIME SPAN: 04/2021 – 12/2022
FUNDED BY: European Regional Development Fund, Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council
OUR ROLE: Coordination and development
SCOPE: Finnish
FIELDS: Business Support, VR

In this project our goal is to assist XR companies to recover from Covid-19 and the financial issues it has caused by improving their innovation potential, business opportunities and networking.

We will map all of the companies working in the XR field in Uusimaa region, and their needs in regards to development, recruitment and marketing. After this, we will create a model for virtual and hybrid events and develop a virtual platform which will include virtual spaces for all of the companies taking part in the interviews of the project, thus creating a permanent virtual trade show of Finnish XR field.

VTS – Industry interview report

From September 2021 to August of 2022, Helsinki XR Center conducted an interview study of the Finnish XR industry: its the current state, challenges and possibilities. Find the report containing questions relating to VTS below.

Read the VTS XR industry interview report