Working Groups
About Working groups
Our Advisory Working Groups critically examine the latest innovation insights related to the group’s theme alongside challenges in the XR industry, in line with the Immersive Tech Network’s mission to empower connections to content, applications, services, solution providers, buyers and customers in the UK immersive tech ecosystem. The groups are made up of members and non-members who are experts from various areas of immersive technology from a broad spectrum of organisations, with the aim of crowdsourcing best practises and solutions.
Ethics
The Ethics Working Group will focus on creating an open forum to regularly discuss ethics in immersive technology, spatial computing, and the metaverse. It seeks to contribute to the development of ethical standards in the sector, establishing the UK as a global leader in ethical practices for immersive technologies. Bringing to...
Environmental Sustainability
The Environmental Sustainability Working Group will address environmental challenges within the XR industry. The group aims to set industry standards and best practices for sustainability. This will be done by creating a platform for ongoing discussions about environmental issues in immersive technologies, spatial computing, and...
ED&I
The ED&I Working Group seeks to unify stakeholders across XR to better support diversity and inclusion. The group will stay informed on ongoing diversity initiatives and build collective momentum to advance equity in the XR landscape, and will also serve as an open forum to discuss ED&I in immersive technology, share knowledge, ...
Accessibility
This group’s primary focus is to create an open forum to discuss accessibility in immersive technologies, like spatial computing and the metaverse. The group will be contributing to the sector’s development of best practices, and will explore specific technological challenges in XR, such as accessibility in haptics, augmente...
International
Innovate UK Immersive Technology Network supports UK businesses and research organisations in the immersive tech sector, to be the most successful and innovative they can be whilst also promoting and connecting the UK immersive tech sector on an international stage.
Founders
The Founders Working Group is comprised of the pioneers who launched the Immerse UK network (now Innovate UK Immersive Technology Network) in 2016 bringing together all areas of the immersive tech ecosystem, and the innovators who have joined since, working at the heart of XR across creative and industry sectors, from content to...
Academic
The Academic Working Group is comprised of members working across academia, universities and research organisations at the forefront of immersive technology R&D. This group spans the UK from the games cluster in Dundee with Abertay University to the various exciting new immersive lab openings in 2022 at the University of Portsmo...