When we started Agog, our goal wasn’t just to make immersive media more accessible—it was to make it more human. We believe XR—extended reality—can spark empathy, deepen understanding, and expand what feels possible.
This year, we saw that belief come alive through new creators, curious partners, and a field that continues to grow.
Here’s some of what we’ve been up to:
- 🔆Fueling changemakers who are telling stories with immersive media
With more than 30 grants and hands-on collaborations, we helped nonprofit leaders, creators, and advocates explore XR’s potential—from taking steps to preserve Diné (Navajo) culture in New Mexico to reimagining climate futures in Oregon and documenting wildfire recovery in California. Watch our grantmaking Q&A session → - 🎓Inspiring the next generation of creators
We introduced up-and-comers to immersive storytelling—from hosting career panels for high school students to co-leading a week-long design lab with Arizona State University, which invited emerging creators to get hands-on with XR and expand how stories for good are told. Read our blog about the ASU × Agog Lab → - 💬 Creating spaces for connection and dialogue
Every month in Agog House—our virtual gathering space—XR enthusiasts, artists, and impact leaders came together for conversations about how immersive media can advance empathy, learning, and social change. Check out recordings of recent meetups on YouTube → - 🎨 Supporting creators and storytellers pushing boundaries
With our partners at innovative arts and culture organization PHI, we welcomed Mira Musank—whose expanding XR project spotlights global textile waste—as the 2025/2026 PHI Immersive resident. We backed Reality Hack, an annual hackathon held at MIT where 600+ creators from around the world turn ideas for good into reality, and WORLDING, an incubator uniting Indigenous knowledge and immersive technology to imagine just climate futures. We also debuted the Agog Immersive Impact Award at SXSW, where judges honored Cameron Kostopoulos for In the Current of Being, a powerful VR work sharing the true story of a survivor of inhumane electroshock conversion therapy. - 💡 Bringing XR for good to stages where it matters
Through panels and gatherings at events from SXSW in Austin and The Barbican in London to Tribeca Festival where we partnered to put on the immersive program, Agog showed up across events large and small that offered opportunities for immersive storytelling to spark connection and change. And we didn’t stop at XR-centered events. At Climate Week NYC, for example, we introduced new audiences to the possibilities of social-impact immersive storytelling. Why immersive? Read my Mashable op-ed → - 📚 Building resources for the growing XR-for-good community
With tools like our Best of Impact XR list, a mobile map of immersive projects in the Big Apple, and our new Discord community, we’re helping creators and organizations connect, learn, and grow.
Our team shares one mission: to make XR a force for connection, creativity, and positive change.
There is so much more to imagine and build, and we’re grateful you’re here for it. If this work sparks an idea or question, send us a message. I read every note.
Here’s to more wonder—and more impact—in 2026.