Pakistan, Oct. 1 -- VXR Festival, founded by Dr Najamul Assar, is a new international festival celebrating virtual and extended reality (XR) art.

The festival is coming to Pakistan, with editions in Lahore from 8-11 November 2026 and Islamabad from 13-15 November 2026, bringing immersive art, digital creativity and emerging technologies to audiences across both cities.

Immersive technologies and artificial intelligence are changing how we see, remember and represent ourselves. Most of these tools are designed far from Pakistan and trained on archives in which the region is often misread or missing. VXR brings audiences in Pakistan face to face with virtual and extended reality art and asks what these technologies see when they look at u...