Our thanks go to Springer for sponsoring the XR Salento 2022 awards Congratulations to the winners of the Best Papers and the XR Competition! Best Full Papers 3D Audio + Augmented Reality + AI Chatbots + IoT: An Immersive Conversational Cultural Guide Michalis Tsepapadakis, Damianos Gavalas and Panayiotis Koutsabasis Factors in the cognitive-emotional impact of educational environmental narrative videogames Sofia Pescarin, Delfina S.M. Pandiani Best Short Paper Virtual reality as a collaborative tool for digitalised crime scene examination Vincenzo Rinaldi, Lucina Hackman, Niamh Nic Daeid XR Competition A virtual reality serious game for children with dyslexia: DixGame Henar Guillen-Sanz, Bruno Garcia-Rodriguez, Kim Martinez, Mar.a Consuelo Saiz Manzanares