VRINN Immersive Learning Cluster

07/04/2026

VRINN is now partnering with XRCC, the world’s biggest XR hackathon. This is a great opportunity to join a global XR community, build real projects over three weeks, learn from top mentors, and compete for a $20,000 prize pool.

Link in the comments:

30/03/2026

13/02/2026

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03/02/2026

One of our new members, Connect the Dot, is hosting a webinar together with Vestre Viken on how VR 🥽 and AI 🤖 are transforming training in acute medicine 🚑.

Learn how ambulance personnel can train for the incident commander role through realistic, AI-driven VR scenarios — focusing on leadership, coordination, and collaboration with police and fire services.

🕚 Today, 11:00–11:30
🎙 Featuring experts from Vestre Viken
🆓 Free webinar
🔗 Link in the comments

26/01/2026

🚀 VRINN Hackathon – Hamar

📅 Friday–Sunday | Running in parallel with 🎮 Global Game Jam

Join the VRINN Hackathon in Hamar, running in parallel with Global Game Jam and connected as a satellite event to the Immersive Sweden Hackathon in Stockholm 🇸🇪✨

This is a hands-on weekend where you’ll explore 🥽 XR, 🎮 VR and immersive experiences, experiment with ideas 💡, and build prototypes together 🤝.
You don’t need to be an expert — curiosity and a willingness to create are enough ✨

🎨 What you can create
This hackathon is open-ended and experimental. You can create:
• 🎮 Games
• 🥽 XR / VR experiences
• 🎨 Art & visual concepts
• 🎧 Sound & music
• 🧩 Design, interaction or storytelling
• 🧪 Prototypes or experiments for games, hackathons, or other creative ideas
🌍 Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or background.

🛠️ Tools & platforms
Participants will have access to low-code and rapid-prototyping tools, including:
• 🧠 Fynd Core
• 🧩 Next Layer
• 🧱 Ordinary Objects
• 🌐 Mattercraft (by Zappar)
These tools make it possible to quickly build and test ideas — even without heavy programming skills ⚡

🌟 Prototypes & visibility
Prototypes and demos created during the VRINN Hackathon will be presented to the Swedish immersive community through the Immersive Sweden network 🇸🇪✨

🎟️ Free tickets (limited)
We have 10 free tickets available for participants joining the hackathon task.
📩 To request a free ticket, contact: [email protected]
before registering.

🎫 Normal registration
Standard registration happens here:
👉 https://www.geekevents.org/HGA26/ #/shop

🗓️ Agenda
(VRINN Hackathon runs in parallel with Global Game Jam)

🔹 Friday
• 14:00 – 🚪 Doors open
• 16:00 – 👋 Welcome & practical information
• 16:40 – 🎤 Local keynote
• 17:00 – 🌍 Global Game Jam keynote & theme reveal
• 18:00 – 🧠 Brainstorming & pizza 🍕
• 19:00 – 📣 Pitching & team formation
• 20:00 – 💻 Development starts

🔹 Saturday
• 11:00 – 🚿 Showers available
• 11:00–15:00 – 🥽 XR presentations and talks (parallel with development)
• All day – 🛠️ Development & testing
• 16:00 – 🧪 Test-bonanza
• 18:00 – 🍽️ Dinner
• 19:00 – 🎮 Unity talk
• 20:00 – 🏆 Game tournament

🔹 Sunday
• 11:00 – 🚿 Showers available
• All day – ✨ Final development & polishing
• 15:00 – ⏰ Submission deadline (Global Game Jam & VRINN Hackathon)
• 16:00 – 🎬 Presentations & demos
• 18:00 – 🚪 Doors close

📍 Location
📌 Holsetgata 31, Universitetet i Innlandet, Hamar
🏛️ Main venue: Auditorium 1
➕ Additional rooms may be available: Auditorium 2–3

👥 Who is this for?
🔞 18+
The hackathon is open to developers, designers, students, creators, and anyone curious about 🥽 XR and immersive technology.

17/12/2025

We are proud to share that Fynd Reality has signed a new agreement with Lesja Dovre Brannvesen 🤝

We are launching a joint preparedness project together with Bane NOR and VRINN Immersive Learning Cluster aimed at strengthening emergency response in the event of train derailments.
A great example of how cross-sector collaboration and realistic training can improve readiness, before incidents happen.

Looking forward to the work ahead! 🚒🚆

08/12/2025

We VRINN are at United XR Europe together with helsinkixrcenter and Visual Sweden

05/11/2025

Kurs i design av gode virtuelle rom for VR

Hvordan skaper man gode virtuelle rom som er intuitive å navigere, komfortable å være i og fremmer samhandling? Dette kurset gir deg verktøyene du trenger!

📍 Park Grunderhus, Hamar – Digital sløyd
📅 27. november 2025
⏰ 10:45 – 16:00

Mer om kurset og påmelding finner du her
https://vrinn.no/event/kurs-i-design-av-gode-virtuelle-rom-for-vr-applikasjoner-og-omsluttende-opplevelser/

14/10/2025

🎥 LIVE from Hamar Kulturhus tonight at 18:00 (Norwegian time) —
the VRINN Awards 2025, the Nordics’ only VR/AR awards show!

🏆 Celebrating the year’s most innovative XR projects.

✨ Don’t miss it: https://lnkd.in/dZWfa6wy

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06/10/2025

✨ Just one week to go until Nordic VR Forum 2025!

We’re excited to welcome Oliver Kadel MPSE, AMPS, 1.618 DIGITAL., an award-winning sound designer with 200+ immersive projects for companies like Meta, Apple, and Dolby. He will give a talk on spatial audio in immersive storytelling and lead host a course under the Workshop : “Introduction to Spatial Audio for Immersive Films”

📅 October 13–15 | Hamar, Norway
🎟 Program & tickets: www.vrforum.no

🎧 Speaker & Workshop Spotlight: Oliver Kadel, 1.618 DIGITAL

What defines auditory immersion? At Nordic VR Forum 2025, multi-award-winning senior sound designer, recording and mixing engineer specialising in spatial and interactive audio for immersive media. Oliver will explore how spatial audio shapes immersive storytelling, communications, and XR experiences.

Based in London, Oliver has delivered interactive audio for 200+ immersive titles across VR, AR, MR, and 360 films, collaborating with Meta, Apple, Google, Dolby, Bang & Olufsen, Bose, Magic Leap, and more. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Spatial Psychoacoustics at the University of York, researching how sound impacts cognitive load and learning in VR training.

Oliver is also a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Motion Picture Sound Editors, and the Audio Engineering Society.

💡 In addition to his talk, Oliver will host a course under Workshop Day: “Introduction to Spatial Audio for Immersive Films” — a hands-on dive into spatial audio creation.

🔗 Explore the program & speakers: www.vrforum.no

📅 October 13–15 | Hamar, Norway
🎟 Explore the program & get tickets: www.vrforum.no

01/10/2025

We’re excited to havet Eirik Wahl, CTO at Weave Reality to present at Nordic VR Forum. With long experience in 3D graphics, game technology, and digital twins, he will show how 3D maps in Mixed Reality can bring Trondheim to life on the table in front of you.

📅 October 13–15 | Hamar, Norway
🎟 Program & tickets: www.vrforum.no

🗺️ Speaker Spotlight: Eirik Wahl, Weave Reality

Forget flat maps — the future is 3D maps in Mixed Reality! At Nordic VR Forum 2025, Eirik Wahl will show how tools like Meta Quest 3, Unity, and Google Photorealistic 3D Maps can bring Trondheim to life in 3D right on the table in front of you. 🚀

Eirik is CTO and system developer at Weave Reality (part of Breach VR), with 24 years of software development experience — including 9 years in 3D graphics & game tech and 7 years working with digital twins. As CTO, he shapes technology and product strategy while staying hands-on as a project manager and developer.

🔗 Explore the program & speakers: www.vrforum.no

📅 October 13–15 | Hamar, Norway
🎟 Explore program & get tickets: www.vrforum.no