Xtra realities
about
Xtra Realities is a quarterly print magazine dedicated to Extended Reality — augmented, virtual and mixed reality — as a cultural, artistic and creative medium.
Founded and edited from Portugal, the magazine addresses XR through essays, interviews, criticism and commissioned visual work, focusing on the ideas, artists and practices shaping the field today.
As XR evolves, the conversation around it remains fragmented, split between technical coverage, industry news and product cycles. Xtra Realities brings the focus back to the work itself: to creative practices, authorship and the cultural significance of XR as a medium.
Each issue is carefully art-directed, designed as a physical object for sustained reading and long-term reference. Print offers a slower space for context, depth and editorial perspective in a fast-moving field.
The magazine is international in scope, with a European perspective grounded in Portugal, and distributed across specialist cultural, academic and creative networks.
First issue: June 2027.
Institutional Partners
AIXR — Academy of International Extended Reality (UK) Founding institutional partner. AIXR is the world's leading professional body for the XR industry, supporting education, standards and community across the global XR ecosystem.
Raindance Immersive (UK) Editorial partner. Raindance Immersive is the XR strand of the Raindance Film Festival, one of the UK's most established independent film organisations. It supports and showcases immersive work from emerging and established creators across Europe and beyond.
CaUSAL — Culture, Arts and Society Applications Lab University of Salamanca (ES) Academic partner. CaUSAL is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to the study of immersive technologies, emerging narratives, and their intersections with culture, communication, heritage and social memory.
XR Must (France) Editorial partner. XR Must is a French organisation dedicated to promoting XR creation and connecting artists, producers and cultural institutions across Europe.