RiT is dedicated to consolidating and sharing XR related knowledge, tools, and methodologies. By taking a critical approach to XR, RiT integrates creation, curation, and dissemination practices with educational methods, while also addressing crucial issues such as privacy, ethics, and sustainability. This holistic perspective not only enhances the development of XR technologies but also ensures that they serve diverse communities effectively, fostering a collaborative environment where innovation meets responsibility. Through this initiative, we aspire to empower individuals and organizations to harness XR for positive societal impact.

RiT aspires to be a major actor in the XR sector, exploring innovative narratives and creative processes while inspiring the entire community. By supporting emerging XR creatives, artists, and projects, RiT fosters common and open-source methodologies, emphasizing inclusive and sustainable practices in experimental XR creations. This commitment not only enriches the creative landscape but also encourages collaboration and the sharing of resources, ensuring that diverse voices are heard and that XR becomes a powerful medium for storytelling and social change.

RiT gathers a diverse  European XR community, composed of emerging artists, experts and mentors who want to reflect on and promote a sustainable, open and inclusive XR.
Consolidating this community means creating opportunities for networking and peer-to-peer learning between existing independent and activist XR initiatives, artists, researchers, coders, cultural and creative sector professionals, while acting as a catalyst, helping  them gain recognition at European level.

The RiT project is punctuated by a series of events, such as XR labs and workshops combining virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) to create immersive and interactive experiences hosted in the various venues that welcomed our experts and participants. 

Aimed at imparting open-source technical, cultural and critical thinking tools for XR, these initiatives are  designed to engage members of the European creative and activist community around XR, fostering a Europe-wide exchange of ideas and skills. 

Aimed primarily at local students and young creators, the RiT project  inspires the next generation of innovators and thinkers, offering them the resources they need to explore and develop bold XR projects.

RiT is a space of expression for artists who have the opportunity to explore extended realities through a comprehensive program designed to support them. In total, RiT supported artists with:

• 3 international calls to encourage inclusive and sustainable projects;
• 2-month residencies for 15 emerging artists, mentored by RIT experts;
• Showcase of artworks at different exhibitions, fairs and festivals supported by RiT. 

By encouraging artists to work together and push the boundaries of co-creation in XR, RiT fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration, knowledge sharing among artists and experts, innovation in XR storytelling and experiences. 

The RiT XR Camps are an opportunity to bring together the Creative and Activist European XR community over a short period of time around XR related topics. Between 2023 and 2024, RiT organized 3 XR Camps to explore the diversity of extended realities through exhibitions, performances, networking, workshops, talks, seminars, hackathons.

Through its long-term multidisciplinary collaborative work, the EU XR community has come to bring together a great amount of resources that promote inclusive and sustainable XR. 

Open source tools, good practices, reports, expert talks, interviews and projects has resulted in the creation of a database available on the RiT website.