18 university teams from all over Germany made their way to the Places _ VR Festival in mid-September to take part in the DIVR Science Award 2021 with their research project. In the underground [...]

Imagine Green Urban Futures: This was the motto of lala.ruhr’s programme at the Places VR Festival. The aim was to transport the idea of a greener city in immersive images. Conventional plans and [...]

Five startups competed on Thursday 16.09.2021 to win the Places _ Startup Pitch. Digifactura from Bochum was able to prevail over the four other startups. The company, which provides a VR archive [...]

Whether it’s hacker attacks, espionage or security breaches – problems around the topic of IT and data security occupy corporations and start-ups, municipalities and ministries. During the 24 [...]

From 16 to 18 September, Bochumer Straße in Gelsenkirchen presented itself for the third time as a centre for the German and international VR scene. The wide range of applications showed that VR [...]

In an emergency, every second counts – fast workflows are therefore essential. With VR and AR, it is possible to make the training of medical professionals even more efficient with virtual [...]

Art and culture have always been an important part of our social coexistence and have constantly evolved, just like people. VR and AR now add a whole new component that opens up new worlds. This [...]

Have you ever had a news reporter standing in your own living room? Or explored a city with your smartphone and brought long-forgotten historical buildings back to life? This is possible with [...]

Arrival The easiest way to get there is by train to Gelsenkirchen main station. You can reach the festival site on foot in about 10 minutes if you leave the main station heading south / exit [...]

How can squares, open spaces and buildings be designed sustainably? How does a new building fit into the cityscape and how can communication be optimised during the construction phase? These are [...]

Training electrical and metal technology trainees on a virtual offshore wind turbine or creating your own VR application without much programming: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality offer [...]

For the competition “Imagine green urban futures”,the initiative lala.ruhr and us were looking for planners and designers for innovative urban development. Now the participants have been chosen: [...]

After many events did not take place at all or only digitally last year, we are looking forward to conferences, expos and meetings around VR, AR and related technologies again in 2021. We have [...]

On the occasion of the Places _ VR Festival 202 this year, the urbanana-Areal with five augmented reality artworks was created in the area around Bochumer Straße. The works of art take up already [...]

Can Virtual Reality make a real contribution if you want to do sports better, more efficiently or with more fun? We asked ourselves these questions in the run-up to the festival and therefore, [...]

What should the city of the future look like? Somehow digital – probably but also sustainable and worth living in? At this year’s Places _ VR Hackathon, the participants tried to find answers to [...]

Apple, Google or Amazon – the story of these three tech companies began in a garage. So that’s where the ideas that can change the world are born. That’s why there were real innovations to be [...]

From Experience _ Places to Speakers, Panels, Talks, Workshops, the Creative _ Places Kunst-WG, Hackathon and the DIVR Science Award: From August 20-22, 2020, the Places _ Virtual Reality [...]

The Places _ Virtual Reality Festival takes place from 20 – 22.08.2020 and will not be postponed again. Together with the responsible persons of the city of Gelsenkirchen we will observe the [...]

The first contents at Germany’s largest festival for virtual reality are ready! On 20.05., the first participants of the Places _ Virtual Reality Festival 2020 were presented in a live show on [...]

Actually the Places _ VR Festival 2020 would have ended on Saturday. The corona pandemic has put a damper on this. But we are still looking into the future and the new festival date in August! [...]

How Eike Langbehn went from award winner to start-up founder In 2019 Dr. Eike Langbehn won the DIVR Science Award in the category “best concept” with his “SpaceWalk” demo. This year he his [...]

This year again, the DIVR Science Award will be presented in Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf. Together with the German Institute for Virtual Realities, we are looking for university projects that produce [...]

For 20 years, the “Laval Virtual World” festival has been held in France and has been bringing together experts on the topic of extended reality every year since then. On three days, visitors can [...]

Why did we choose to postpone the Festival instead of making a virtual event and why is a real festival, where we meet in person so important to us. In our latest video message, the head of [...]

The current situation around the Corona pandemic also has an impact on the Places _ VR Festival. In the last few days, we have been thinking a lot about if and how the Places _ VR Festival 2020, [...]

In the run-up to the festival some of our companions, partners and supporters of the last two years have given their views on VR.

The Places _ VR Festival in 2020 offers new events in the whole city quarter, in addition to the well-known program parts such as the VR _ Hackathon, the DIVR-Science-Award or the Experience _ [...]

When we talk to possible partners, sponsors or supporters about the festival, the explanation of what we are actually doing here always starts the same way. For one thing: We are not a fair, the [...]

What do the approximately 4.5 million people suffering from clinical depression in Germany feel? What do the approximately 10,000 people who take their own lives each year think? With the Virtual [...]

Together with partners of the festival, the City of Gelsenkirchen and the press, we have heralded the festival year 2020. At the kick-off event, Lord Mayor Frank Baranowski was very pleased about [...]