About Meaningful XR

💡About the Conference

The Meaningful XR conference has roots in the Meaningful Play conference hosted at Michigan State University (MSU) since 2008, the SPARTIE Lab at MSU, and the NSF-funded Beyond Meet Space project team. The inaugural Meaningful XR Conference (MXR24), held on Stanford University campus in May 2024, was characterized by 2.5 days (27+ hours) of spectacular presentations, intellectual conversations, and exciting (but safe!) social events. With ~90 participants, MXR hit a sweet spot in size: small enough for sufficiently long convos, large enough to meet many new people. We also supported remote attendance in a virtual world (in VR Chat) with a livestream of the physical conference room, with some physical attendees also in the virtual world via VR headset. …sounds about right for Meaningful XR. 

We had a truly wonderful event at MXR 2025 in UC Davis, with ~80 attendees in person and ~25 virtual. True to theme, all in-person sessions were streamed both to a zoom room and to a VR-accessible virtual world in VR Chat called "Beyond Meet Space", which we built ourselves (it's publicly available -- search BMS in VR Chat). Some virtual attendees spent more than 12 hours total in VR to attend our conference! 

We hope you will consider joining us for the next MXR and becoming part of the growing Meaningful XR Community! 

Thanks,

MXR Organizing Team