Past Events
2024
NeuroVR Hackathon
The NeuroVR hackathon was the first of its kind to engage the McGill community in integrating neuroscience with emerging XR technologies. Students gained technical knowledge and practical skills by developing VR applications as a team. 50 students competed in a 24-hour hackathon, creating 9 outstanding interdisciplinary projects.
NeuroVR Showcase & Social Mixer
McGillXR invited Dr. Argerie Tsimicalis and Dr. Yiming Xiao to speak about their experience at the convergence of neuroscience, healthcare, and VR technology. This was a precursor event to the NeuroVR hackathon, held at McGill Engine, and was concluded with a reception and team building opportunity for the attendees.
XR Development Workshops
As a precursor event to the NeuroVR Hackathon, two workshops were held at Building 21: (1) Introduction to Unity & XR Development Set-Up, and (2) XR Development with the Meta Presence Platform Workshop.
McGameJam 2024
McGilXR partnered with McGill Game Devs for their 2024 game jam. We sponsored a <Best VR Game> award and provided support for teams working with VR during the jam!
McGillXR x CinéCampus : Everything Everywhere All At Once Film Screening
Join McGillXR and Campus Life & Engagement for our first joint CinéCampus showing Everything Everywhere All At Once, an Oscar wining 2022 comedy-drama. Come meet other students, learn about McGill XR and virtual reality on Friday, Januray 19h, at 1:30pm in Brown 5001! This event counts towards your co-curricular record with myInvolvement.
2023
FNC Info Session
McGilXR hosted Philippe Bédard from the FNC team to deliver a presentation and host a discussion around Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, a film festival held in Montreal that garners over 160,000 attendees each year.
Undergraduate Orientation Beat Saber Tournament
New students at McGill got exposure to the world of XR and the chance to compete for a $20 Steam gift card at McGillXR's booth.
Winter Workshop Series 2: Introduction to XR Inputs
Builds on the fundamentals of the first workshop in the series with a deep dive into utilizing VR inputs.
Winter Workshop Series 1: Introduction to OOP
We will introduce the concept of object oriented programming, spend time learning the game engine Unity interface, do a hands-on-tutorial where you will build a small project, and share other resources for developing in VR.
Engineering Beat Saber Tournament
Multi-day Beat Saber tournament event pitting the undergraduate mechanical engineering student club versus the graduate mechanical engineering student club. The club was hired for headset rental, live projection setup, and safety and sanitization services.
2022
Phi Centre Outing
Team building event at the Phi Centre where we experienced the Horizons VR exhibition.
FNC VR Film Festival
We hosted our first VR film festival in collaboration with Festival du Nouveau Cinema (FNC) and McGill Engine. We showcased some of the most experimental films that the VR medium has to offer on the McGill campus to over 100 students. FNC is a premier international film festival showcasing innovative films from around the world. With their 50 years of history, they are at the forefront of film innovation. Through this event, we provided the McGill community with opportunities to meet VR industry professionals in the film VR space and helped foster a social space for McGill students with an interest in VR.
VR Social Event
Our inception VR social gathering event on campus with a fun evening of Beat Saber, drinks, and snacks!