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ROOM
  • Individual Project 2025
Sonic XR  Installation

This work explores how temporary living spaces shape shifting feelings of intimacy and estrangement. A translucent bedroom and a series of interactive drawers reveal fragmented voice recordings from London residents, suggesting the unstable and continually reconstructed nature of home-making.

🏆Immersive Category Finalist at the 2026 BAFTA Student Awards    
🏆Immersive Category Finalist at the 2026 The ROOKIES Awards    

EchoMemo
  • Hackathon Project 2026
AI-Powered XR Memory Companion

EchoMemo turns memories into something you can see and touch.
By transforming spoken stories into spatial AR objects, it creates a new form of emotional connection between generations.

🏆 Cambridge AI/XR Hackathon Grand Prize 
🏆 Social Interaction and Well-being  Track Winner

The Warming Table
  • Group Project 2025 (WIP)
  • Leyi Zhou
  • Yiping Li
  • Kewin Skrzekut
  • Kris Harwood
Multiplayer MR Game

This mixed-reality game explores the environmental impact of food choices on global warming.

🏆 Best Immersive Game at the 2025 Innovate UK Immersive Tech Awards    

StepWise
  • Hackathon Project 2026
AI-Powered WebXR  Assistant

StepWise reimagines repair manuals as immersive AI-guided WebXR experiences, enabling users to learn, troubleshoot, and repair devices through intuitive step-by-step spatial instructions.

🏆 XRCC Hackathon Finalist

Italia Terromotata
  • Studio Project 2025
Interactive VR Documentary

This interactive documentary combines 3D visualisation and multi-modal storytelling to tell the story of Senerchia terremotata, that is, the earthquake that devastated the Irpinia region (South Italy) in 1980.



Departure Lounge

  • Collaborative Project
Multiplayer MR Serious Game

The Departure Lounge combines VR and MR technologies to deliver a futuristic experience exploring climate change’s impact on our immediate environment. A collaboration between XR professionals and the University of the Arts London.

Merry Go Round

  • Collaborative Project
Interactive Immersive Media

Merry Go Round is designed for a 360° ring-screen environment. Inspired by the carousel as a symbol of contemporary digital culture, the project combines large-scale spatial visuals, interactive participation, and dynamic storytelling to explore the relationship between entertainment, consumption, and playbour in life.

Dopamine Eyes

  • Collaborative Project
360° Music Video

Dopamine Eyes is an immersive music video created for musician Colin MacIntyre. Combining cinematic visuals, spatial storytelling, and 360° video production, the project transforms the song into a visually engaging experience that enhances its emotional atmosphere and narrative themes.

Three Locks
  • Group Project 2025
  • Leyi Zhou
  • Wanqi Fu
  • Junxin Deng
Cross-platform XR Experience

Three Locks is a VR and MR multi-version storytelling with an interactive experience. It is a metaphor that suggests the three hikers locked each other’s way of life due to their own motivations.

Recording in Progress
Individual Project 2024 (WIP)
Strategy VR Game Prototype

Players experience the duality of modern surveillance systems. As the monitored, they evade cameras; as the monitor, they track targets. Set in a heterotopian world, players confront the endless loop of surveillance: from the monitored to the monitor, and ultimately becoming part of the system itself.