Hack Reality & Build the Future of Human Experience
Win Mentra Smart Glasses and Other Prizes
A half-day intensive where builders, researchers, creators, and visionaries come together to prototype immersive experiences that expand human potential.
Make-a-thon Tracks
Each track invites teams to design, prototype, and present an immersive experience rooted in the Luminara's core research.
Build XR experiences that cultivate expanded awareness, mindfulness, and inner stillness — using biofeedback, spatial audio, and contemplative design.
Track ACreate immersive environments that deepen empathy, bridge perspectives, and strengthen the bonds between people, communities, and the living world.
Track BDesign experiences that invoke awe, wonder, and self-transcendence — exploring how immersive worlds can catalyze profound personal and collective growth.
Track CSchedule
Check in, meet your fellow builders, and get oriented. Coffee and light breakfast provided.
Dr. Tom Furness and the Luminara team set the stage — the research, the principles, and the challenge ahead.
Form cross-disciplinary teams. Choose your track. Begin prototyping with mentors, tools, and research resources on hand.
Fuel up while teams share early progress. Quick-fire feedback from mentors and peers.
Each team presents their prototype. Judges evaluate on vision, feasibility, alignment with core principles, and potential for impact.
Winners announced. Connections made. The journey continues.
Categories
Build something real. Each category connects to the Luminara's research into how technology can awaken deeper human capacities.
Build systems that synchronize people, rhythms, attention, or physiology.
Make vibration, frequency, and resonance visible.
Use light to shift mood, focus, presence, or perception.
Explore sensing, communication, and interaction through fields.
Give people abilities they normally don't have.
Show how reality is constructed by the brain.
Build tools that improve relationships in real time.
Build agents that elevate awareness and performance.
Build new ways to interact with environments.
Judging
Awards
Venue
Long Beach Convention Center
300 E Ocean Blvd
Long Beach, CA 90802
Monday, June 2026
Part of the AWE (Augmented World Expo) conference week
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM PT
Half-day intensive — come ready to build
Limited to 60 participants
Builders, researchers, designers, educators, and visionaries
Ready?
Whether you're an XR developer, researcher, designer, educator, or dreamer — if you believe technology should serve the deepest parts of what makes us human, this is your Make-a-thon.
Questions? Reach out to info@luminara.institute