The field of Extended Reality (XR) is rapidly evolving, with a focus on improving user experience, interaction, and immersion. Recent developments have seen a surge in innovative applications of XR in various domains, including medical education, art, and entertainment. Researchers are exploring new ways to enhance XR interactions, such as on-body touch input, touch segmentation on ad hoc surfaces, and hybrid user interfaces. Additionally, there is a growing emphasis on addressing security and privacy concerns in XR development. Noteworthy papers in this area include: Unlocking Mixed Reality for Medical Education, which presents an MR application for head anatomy education, enabling learners to interact with 3D anatomical structures via hand gestures and controllers. EgoTouch, which demonstrates high accuracy bare hands skin input using just an RGB camera, like those already integrated into all modern XR headsets. Promisedland, which introduces a low-cost, high-fidelity Diorama-to-Virtual pipeline for prototyping MR narrative attractions. From Perception to Protection, which examines developers' perceptions of security and privacy threats in XR and proposes actionable recommendations to improve XR S&P throughout the development process.