About

Reality Hack: Promoting Inclusive Access to Tools for Creation and Making the World a Better Place Through Experiential Technologies

Our mission is to propel experiential technology towards a maximally positive role in society, by supporting a creator-oriented ecosystem, and making ideas for good into reality.

Why Experiential? XR and – more broadly – experiential technology is an immensely important category of new and maturing technologies that will play a central role for the human experience in the near and further future.

Minting creators. A new generation of technology enables us to support creators, not just consumers. We pursue this by building an inclusive community focused on collaboration and hands-on learning.

Ideas for good. Prototyping offers a chance to learn and envision a better future. By centering our ideation processes on this concept, we've seen world-changing ideas emerge.

Making it real. Prototypes are a crucial first step in building ventures that positively impact the world. We leverage our events, resources, and network to support the entire venture creation process, turning ideas into reality.

A future that works for everyone. We believe a better future for humanity must include everyone, and this future can only be achieved if all are involved in its creation. As stewards of access to knowledge and resources, we play a crucial role in counteracting systemic biases that could otherwise prevent people from participating in our events and community, ensuring everyone contributes to building this better future.

 

About the Hackathon
MIT Reality Hack is a community-run experiential technology 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 experiential technology industries.

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. This experiential technology event 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 experiential technology, 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

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