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HarvardXRHarvardXR
An annual conference at Harvard on XR, AI and spatial computing.
Timeline
2022
Type
community
A non-profit founded at Harvard in November 2022 and co-founded with Jenny Jiang. It runs an annual conference at the Graduate School of Design in Gund Hall, where students, researchers, practitioners and founders work through how digital realities are reshaping entertainment, education, technology and healthcare. Local event, global vision.
Every edition takes a theme and builds a year of production around it — the identity and printed collateral, the showcase and ideathon, the media kit, and the films that open the day.
2023 — Inaugural Conference
The first one.
2024 — Extended Intelligence
Machine intelligence as something that extends the people using it rather than replacing them. The opening film ran on the hall screens through the day.
2025 — The Augmented Self
The theme film is at the top of this page. Alongside it, a mixed-reality short shot for the edition.
2026 — XR+: From Pixel to Voxel
The move from flat pixels to volumetric space. Saturday, April 11, 2026, at Gund Hall.
Press & RecognitionPress & Recognition
[harvardxr.com](https://www.harvardxr.com/)
[About 2026](https://www.harvardxr.com/2026/about-2026)
