XR Hackathon and Get-Together Before and During Gamescom Announced

gamescom will once again be an important meeting place for the XR scene in 2025. The Meta-sponsored Global XR/AI Hack will take place immediately before the trade fair. In cooperation with the DLR Project Management Agency and the Erster Deutscher Fachverband für Virtual Reality, there will also be a get-together directly at gamescom.

Thomas Riedel from Spatial Realities is behind the two dates for the XR community at gamescom. Under this brand, XR journalist Riedel runs a podcast, a newsletter and a meetup for the German-speaking XR industry in collaboration with Thomas Bedenk and Christian Steiner, among others. He has also been organising XR events at gamescom for years.

And they will be back again in 2025. Immediately before the trade fair, the Global XR/AI Hack will take place in Cologne from 17 to 19 August. This is a hackathon for game designers sponsored by Meta. Other partners include Schenker and Impact Reality, as well as regional XR sponsors and networks from Bavaria, Berlin-Brandenburg, Hamburg, Belgium and Flanders. Information is available on the homepage of the hackathon, where registrations can also be made.

An XR Get-Together is also planned for 20 August at gamescom, for which Riedel has secured KölnBusiness as one of its partners. The XR Get-Together is organised by Spatial Realities in cooperation with the Erster Deutscher Fachverband für Virtual Reality (EDFVR; First German Professional Association for Virtual Reality) and the DLR Projektträger.

"I am happy that we are able to offer regular meeting places for the XR industry in Cologne with the Spatial Realities Meetup. At the highlight of the gaming year, there is now a regular hackathon for game designers. And with the XR Get-Together, we are also creating a meeting place for the business side, now in its third year", says Thomas Riedel.