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
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Scott W. Greenwald, PhD
Executive Chairperson
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Sultan Sharrief
Event Experience Director
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Maria Rice
Chief of Outreach and Operations
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Austin Edelman
Executive Director
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Patrick Waechter
Director of Event Operations
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Lukasz (Luke) Porwol, PhD
Sponsorship Lead
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Brian Hui
Communications & Brand Lead
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Santiago Dimaren
Development Operations Lead
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Catherine Dumas, PhD
Recruitment Lead
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Luka Srsic
Head of Finance
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Lucas De Bonet
Hardware Hack Director
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Mehek Gosalia
Logistics Lead
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T Chen
Hardware Hack
Head of Operations -
John Maloney
Director of Operations
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Ashley Neall
Event Design
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Rina Kim
Design Lead
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Shane Engelman
GitHub Specialist and Platform Development
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Peter Iordanov
Platform Development
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Christopher Butler
Design
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Stepan Shabalin
Platform Development
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Jason Morris
Platform Development
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Bryant Wood
Communications and Outreach
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Jared Bienz
Mentoring Recruitment and Experience Lead
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Axel Witt
Platform Development
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Vik Gupta
Outreach and Design
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Parth Arora
Technology
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Ian MacKenzie
Event Advisor
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Lavin Amarnani
People Experience
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Bryan Chris Brown
Event Advisor
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Robert Pluma
Project Management
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Roy McGill
Development Operations
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Wiley Corning
Judging & Platform Development
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Tariq Bahaaaldeen
Augmented Reality Developer
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Oksana Slyusar
Design
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Zade Bosco Lobo
Logistics and Design
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Viktor Makarskyy
Logistics and Experience