HARVARDXR About Us

Presented by Harvard i-Lab Founders in XR & Metaverse

Harvard i-Lab Founders in XR & Metaverse is the subcommunity at Harvard Innovation Lab.  By connecting students and alumni with investors and industry leaders in the XR, metaverse, and blockchain fields, our goal is to enable participants to explore the technology and business opportunities in the metaverse. We aim to empower and enable people to build ventures in the metaverse by connecting participants, experts, and investors in the metaverse-related field.

HarvardXR
Co-Founders

HarvardXR
Advisory Board

HarvardXR
SPonsors and partners

Sponsorship

Partnerships

Harvard CSSA Venture Club
HGSE AR/VR/XR Club
Harvard Chinese Students and Scholars Association
Harvard Chan Chinese Student Health Club
Harvard GSAS Entrepreneur Community
Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs
HBS Club of the GCC
ChinaGSD
MIT Chinese Entrepreneurs Organization (MIT CEO)
MIT-CHIEF (MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum)
Reality Virtually AR/VR Hackathon at the MIT Media Lab
Quakers Penn Venture Club
Chinese Entrepreneurs Organization
Brown Chinese Students and Scholars Association
Cornell CSSA (Cornell University Chinese Students and Scholars Association)
Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale (ACSSY)
Yale Venture Club
Cornell Venture and Entrepreneurship Club
Boston Chinese Investment Club BCIC
Tsinghua Alumni Association at Greater Boston (THAA-Boston)
Maverick
Peking University Student Innovation Association
Chinese Elite Consortium
G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance
Startup Boston
VR/AR @ MIT
GSD Mixed Realities

Past Speakers

Dwight Merriman, Co-Founder & Chairman @ MongoDB
Vishal Punwani, MD, Co-Founder & CEO @ SoWork
Taylor Freeman, Co-Founder & CEO @ Axon Park
Hakan Satiroglu, Founder & CEO, XR Terra
Athena Demos, Co-Founder & CEO, Big Rock Creative
Max Newlon, President BrainCo USA
Rus Gant, Director of the Harvard Visualization Research Laboratory and the Director of the Virtual Harvard Project

Past Events by Our Co-Founders

New Digital Design International Forum

"New Digital Design" promotes post-digital and phygital culture in China and beyond. It is a series of events that discusses the new meaning, future impact, and novel application of digital in breadth design fields. The topics are transdisciplinary, including architecture, art, fashion, motion graphics, business, etc. New Digital Design can be any design strategy or method that is not constrained in the past digital age. The participants include professors of architecture and design, designers and digital artists in practice, and industry pioneers.

Speakers include Yambo, Davide Quayola, Wang Jing, Luis Hernan, Yang, Nix Liu Xin, Maik Bluhm (CATK Berlin), Fredrik Hellberg & Lara Lesmes (Space Popular), Shaun McCallum (iheartblob), kefan404, Baoyang Chen, etc.

More than 10,000 audiences participated during the live streaming.

Venture In Metaverse Hackathon

Harvard i-lab Venture in Metaverse Hackathon is run by the Founder in XR & Metaverse Subcommunity. By connecting students and alumni with investors and industry leaders in the XR, metaverse, and blockchain fields, our goal is to enable participants to explore the technology and business opportunities in the metaverse.

CAMLab Cave

Located at 485 Broadway—just outside Harvard Yard—CAMLab Cave opened in the fall of 2022. The headquarters of Harvard FAS CAMLab, the Cave is equipped with cutting-edge media infrastructure that instantiates CAMLab's interdisciplinary projects as immersive installations and sensory experiences. The Cave serves as a hub of innovative forms of knowledge production, pedagogy, and sensorial media practice. ​

Harvard Web3 Demo Day

Organized by Harvard GSAS Entrepreneurs Community, Web3 Demo Day provides opportunities for startups to increase exposure, expand network, and unlock business potential.Join 200+ investors, founders, and industry partners for networking, sharing, and growth! Institutions like Binance, OKX, Chainlink and University Web3 Clubs participated in this demo day.