About

 

MIT Reality Hack is a community-run XR hackathon held at MIT co-hosted by a team of community volunteers (alumni, friends, and others) with the Reality Hack Organization 501-c3 and a student org VR/AR@MIT.  We all share a common goal: to educate, empower and enable people to be part of the XR industry.

At MIT Reality Hack, we strive to provide opportunities to:

✏️ Learn: Presentations and tech workshops prepare participants with the fundamentals for creating an immersive experience/game/app, not to mention the organic discussions, fireside chats and more!

🤝Connect: Reality Hack participants are artists, creatives, domain experts, storytellers, designers, students, and experts. The hackathon facilitates the chance to collaborate with people from various cultures and skill levels, with the aim to expand networks of friends and colleagues who are passionate about creativity and technology.

🛠️Create: This is where dream projects are made! Practice creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, time management, and problem solving while boosting skill sets!

The culture we aim to shape at Reality Hack is one of inclusion, a culture that includes accessibility and diversity for both the participants and the things created at this event. 

  • We provide a positive, friendly, safe, and welcoming environment at Reality Hack, as governed by our Participant Experience Team and Code of Conduct. 

  • We value imagination, ingenuity, kindness, and shared vision of participants who work together to drive change by tackling a variety of subject matters using an assortment of hardware solutions.

  • We promote the creation of open source assets and tools to empower XR creators beyond our direct community.

We believe Reality Hack offers a new perspective into the positive potential of spatial computing, in an unforgettable five days of collaboration, ideation and creativity. We’re excited to meet you and see how you Hack to the Future!

—Reality Hack team

#HackToTheFuture 🙌
#RHack 🔮
#RealityHack 🔥

Meet the Team

  • Scott W. Greenwald, PhD

    Executive Chairperson

  • Sultan Sharrief

    Event Experience Director

  • Maria Rice

    Chief of Outreach and Operations

  • Austin Edelman

    Executive Director

  • Patrick Waechter

    Director of Event Operations

  • Lukasz (Luke) Porwol, PhD

    Sponsorship Lead

  • Brian Hui

    Communications & Brand Lead

  • Santiago Dimaren

    Development Operations Lead

  • Catherine Dumas, PhD

    Recruitment Lead

  • Luka Srsic

    Head of Finance

  • Lucas De Bonet

    Hardware Hack Director

  • Mehek Gosalia

    Logistics Lead

  • T Chen

    Hardware Hack
    Head of Operations

  • John Maloney

    Director of Operations

  • Ashley Neall

    Event Design

  • Rina Kim

    Design Lead

  • Shane Engelman

    GitHub Specialist and Platform Development

  • Peter Iordanov

    Platform Development

  • Christopher Butler

    Design

  • Stepan Shabalin

    Platform Development

  • Jason Morris

    Platform Development

  • Bryant Wood

    Communications and Outreach

  • Jared Bienz

    Mentoring Recruitment and Experience Lead

  • Axel Witt

    Platform Development

  • Vik Gupta

    Outreach and Design

  • Parth Arora

    Technology

  • Ian MacKenzie

    Event Advisor

  • Lavin Amarnani

    People Experience

  • Bryan Chris Brown

    Event Advisor

  • Robert Pluma

    Project Management

  • Roy McGill

    Development Operations

  • Wiley Corning

    Judging & Platform Development

  • Tariq Bahaaaldeen

    Augmented Reality Developer

  • Oksana Slyusar

    Design

  • Zade Bosco Lobo

    Logistics and Design

  • Viktor Makarskyy

    Logistics and Experience