JAN 2026
Enugu community chapter launches
First monthly meetup at Beaconsmith House, with Meta Quest 2 and SwiftXR demos.
ARVR Africa · Since 2016
Changing the African narrative from consumers to creators of exponential technologies.
A continent-wide community of XR creators — building, learning, and shipping extended reality experiences from Africa to the world.
2022 · ARVR AFRICA HACKATHON, LAGOS
What is ARVR Africa
A community of XR creators across Africa
ARVR Africa is a continent-wide initiative by Imisi 3D — a leading African XR Creation Lab based in Lagos, Nigeria — to build a community of extended reality creators across Africa.
Since Nigeria’s first VR hackathon in 2016, the community has grown into hackathons, bootcamps, masterclasses, meetups, and physical labs spanning the continent.
Our story →
5,000+
hackathon participants over 10 years
42
countries reached in the 2022 hackathon
3
labs outside Nigeria — Kigali, Maputo, Dakar
2016
building the community since
What we do
Four ways in
Hackathon
Continent-wide XR building sprints, from Nigeria’s first VR hackathon in 2016 to the 42-country 2022 edition.
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Bootcamp
Months-long programmes turning winning hackathon teams into startups, products, and careers.
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Masterclasses
Monthly, in-person, tool-specific sessions at the Imisi 3D lab in Lagos.
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Meetups
The community gathering since 2017 — in Lagos and across labs and chapters.
Explore →What’s on
Next up
Monthly programme
The next masterclass and meetup are announced on Instagram.
Masterclasses run monthly at the Imisi 3D lab in Lagos, and meetups continue across the community. Follow @arvrafrica to be first to know — or browse the programme archive.
Latest
From the community
SEP 2024
Dakar Lab opens at UCAD
The third ARVR Africa lab outside Nigeria opens within the CURI centre at Université Cheikh Anta Diop.
APR 2023
17 hackathon teams pitch at Demo Day
Bootcamp teams from 16 countries pitched to industry leaders and investors at The Village Garden, Lagos.
From the community
@arvrafrica on Instagram →
