The Venice Immersive 2023 edition is set to take place from August 30 to September 9th featuring 43 immersive storytelling projects from 25 countries and 24 works in the Worlds Gallery section. There are 28 projects in competition this year, and Venice Immersive has established itself as having one of the deepest and most diverse and most robust selection of immersive stories and immersive worlds. They are featuring well over 21 hours of content in the main selections, and that's not even counting the 23 VRChat worlds (plus one from EngageXR) in the worlds gallery.

I had a chance to catch up with the co-curators of Venice Immersive Liz Rosenthal & Michel Reilhac to give a sneak peak of this year's main competition as well reflect upon some of the trends in immersive storytelling and emerging genres.

I'll be on site at Venice Immersive from August 28 to September 5, and I'm really looking to watching all of the work and interviewing as many of the creators as I can track down. Keep an eye on my @kentbye account on X (Twitter) as I give some of my first impressions of this year's selection. Here's a cheat sheet of this year's selection for as a quick reference guide:

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