About Meaningful XR

💡About the Conference

The Meaningful XR Community grew out of the Meaningful XR conference, which was a product of serendipity, with 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.  We are grateful to MSU's Department of Media & Information, Stanford's Department of Communication, Professor Jeremy Bailenson and his Virtual Human Interaction Lab, the Journal of Media Psychology, and the many co-organizers and committee members helped make this inaugural event happen. We are also deeply grateful to our sponsors whose financial support make it possible to bring out an amazing lineup of keynote speakers and also to help students travel to the conference. 

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 virtual attendance with an OBS capture of the main conference room Zoom plus screenshare streamed to our VR Chat world, which some attendees viewed in VR headsets. …about right for Meaningful XR. 

We hope you will consider joining us for MXR 2025 and becoming part of the growing Meaningful XR Community! 

Thanks,

Rabindra (Robby) Ratan, MXR Association Director

Jorge Pena, MXR 25 Conference Chair

Maxwell Foxman, MXR 25 Submissions Chair

David Beyea, MXR 25 Special Issue Chair

Brian Klebig, MXR 25 Submissions Vice Chair

Alex Leith, MXR 25 Special Issue Hybrid Chair