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We're Agog. A new kind of institute helping creators and nonprofit leaders harness the power of extended reality to imagine a more just and sustainable future.
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Join Agog’s Nov 19 Community Meetup for a live VRChat conversation with Trans Academy—exploring how virtual worlds foster safety, creativity, and belonging across identities.

RSVP forms.gle/qPCCyWW9BSK4...
#VRChatCommunity #XRforGood
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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📣 Agog is hiring an Executive Administrative Partner!
Support our senior leaders, streamline systems, and help us keep our mission on track.

📍 U.S.-based remote (LA, SF, or SEA preferred).
Apply here: jobs.lever.co/schmidt-enti...

#AdminJobs #XRforGood #Hiring
Help wanted: Organizer of Chaos [zoom screenshot with participants using a variety of AR filters and background effects]
November 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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🗂️ New role alert: Agog is hiring a Grants Coordinator!
Love systems, spreadsheets, and social good? Join us.

📍 U.S.-based remote (LA, SF, or SEA preferred).

Apply here: jobs.lever.co/schmidt-enti...

#GrantsJobs #XRforImpact #hiring
Keep the grants flowing and your avatar glowing [VRchat avatar with luminous flower accessory]
November 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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In NYC? Don’t sleep on this:
⚠️ Final weekend for KIN at WSA (slide 1) + Collective Body at Lincoln Center (slide 2)—two must-see immersive XR experiences.
✨ Just added: ENCODED at The Met (slide 3). Indigenous AR reclaiming the American Wing. Thru Dec 31.
Got XR recs? Share!
👉 tours.agog.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Agog’s next Meetup explores connection & creativity in virtual worlds—with a special #VRChat screening of “The Reality of Hope” & conversation with Joe Hunting.

🗓️ Oct 30 | 12:30–2 PM PT

@joeahunting.bsky.social @hiyu.bsky.social @photographotter.bsky.social

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October 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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🚀 After launching three mission-driven cultural institutions, it’s fair to say Alex Capriotti is pretty stellar.

Now she’s our new Head of Marketing & Comms, and we’re over the moon to have her. 💫
Welcome Alex Capriotti, Head of Marketing & Communications [headshot of Alex]
October 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Agog House just got a little... haunted. 👻
We’ve given our VRChat world a Halloween makeover—just for a limited time. Come explore if you dare.
Or join us on Oct 30 for the next Community Meetup: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#VRChat
October 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Join Agog’s Oct 30 meetup for a in-VRChat screening of “The Reality of Hope,” followed by a talk with Joe Hunting, Hiyu & Photographotter, exploring connection & compassion in virtual worlds. RSVP: forms.gle/sTz5xbQVYdSJ...

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Join the next community meetup. Thursday October 30th, 12:30pm-2pm Featuring Joe Hunting, Director, Painted Clouds (We Met in Virtual Reality, The Reality of hope) [Headshot of Joe] Special Guests Hiyu & Photographotter Schedule: 12:30-1pm: Special screening in Agog House "The Reality of Hope" 1pm-1:45pm Moderated conversation & Q&A 1:45-2pm World hop social: "Furality Aqua" & "Room between realities"
October 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Climate Week NYC was one for the books.

From methane visualized in 360° to inter-island systems thinking to LED karaoke—we saw what’s possible when art, science, and story come together.

Immersive media for good is gaining momentum. Let’s keep going.

#XRforGood #ClimateWeekNYC
October 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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The world is a lot. But recently, we co-hosted an #XRCommunityMixer with ASU that reminded us what really matters: connection, imagination, and care.
Grateful to share space with brilliant creators and showcase work by Simeone Scaramozzino, GRX Immersive, VRX, and Nonny de la Peña.
October 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Recapping our visit to Marketplace of the Future during #ClimateWeekNYC 🌱
We soaked up climate optimism at the @grist.org panel with Pinterest, Imagine5, and others, skillfully moderated by @annetheresegennari.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Got to experience the premiere of “In Plain Sight: A Climate Solution Unlocked”—a 360° immersive film that reveals how methane, an invisible climate threat, can be tackled.

Art + science + data = a powerful experience. It made us think: What could it look like as a full XR story?
#ClimateWeekNYC
Making the invisible visible We attended the U.S. premiere of In Plain Sight: A Climate Solution Unlocked—a 360° immersive film showing how methane emissions can be seen, solved, and acted on. The event brought together science, data, and art—proving again how powerful it is to experience a story from the inside. 🌍 Stunning visuals 
📊 Smart storytelling 
🌟 Ran into our friend & activist Daphne Frias 

September 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Our #BestOfImpactXR list is live! 12 immersive experiences that moved us—and might move you, too. Read here: agog.org/best-of-impa...

What immersive experiences have moved you? Reply and share!
September 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Want to change the world and maybe score some limited-edition Agog socks?

Apply to New Dimensions Lab by Sept 17.

10 African artists will join a week-long XR lab in South Africa—with $20K up for grabs.

📍 electricsouth.org

#XRforGood #ImmersiveMedia #AfricanCreators #AgogCommunity
Open Call 8th edition New Dimensions Lab 2025 Lab participant wears VR headset. Lab participants sit in circle showing off their agog socks.
September 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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We’re counting down to our #BestOfImpactXR list of immersive stories that changed us. Launching September 15! What VR or AR experiences have moved you? Share your favorites below and we might feature them. #XRforGood
September 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Our next VRChat meetup is all about wonder, resilience, and how XR storytelling can move us to climate action.

Feat. Sandra Turner (NatGeo Explorer) & Jaz Hee-jeong Choi (Civic Interaction Designer)

Moderated by Agog’s Chip Giller, Sept 19, 11 AM PT
🔗 RSVP: forms.gle/YmLnhmFMr4Kc...
Agog Community Meetup with Special Guests Jaz Hee-jeong Choi & Sandra Turner Friday Sept 19 Moderated by Chip Giller Co-founder, Agog
September 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Agog is hiring a Director of Programs!

Lead a team working at the intersection of immersive media + social change.

Ideal candidate:

✅ Loves strategy
✅ Builds culture
✅ Can out-organize a whiteboard

#Jobs #XR #SocialImpact #ImmersiveTech
Over a virtual gather space the words "This meeting could have been a spatial experience" appear.
August 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Immersive media’s future is taking shape—hear about trends in XR from Venice Immersive 2025 curators Liz Rosenthal & Michel Reilhac, moderated by Gayatri Parameswaran.
🗓 Thursday, August 21 | 1pm PT
RSVP 🔗 forms.gle/DTLhEqDtEg24...
August 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Curious how Agog funds immersive work for good? 🌀

At our next Community Meetup, we’re pulling back the curtain on how we support XR creators, technologists & nonprofits — and what we’re learning along the way.

🗓️ July 31
🔗 forms.gle/9AcCVqFNMerh...

#XRforImpact
July 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Guided 5 civic leaders and curators through “In Search of Us” today — and the conversations afterward were as powerful as the art.

This is how we grow the field: through real dialogue and shared wonder.
#XRforImpact
"I wanted to take notes as I was going through because there was so much to understand." -- Participant "I found myself wondering about the combination of elements--community, resistance, and imagination." -- A participant on "New Maqam City"
June 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Film asks you to watch. XR dares you to be there.

Tribeca’s immersive section isn’t a side dish — it’s the neural spark of what storytelling can become.

tribecafilm.com/films/tribec...

#Tribeca2025
May 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Save the date: May 29, 3 PM PT!
We’re teaming up with Black Public Media to spotlight groundbreaking projects from PitchBlack, their annual pitch competition showcasing film & immersive storytelling.
Feat. Aya, Dominick Rabrun + Lisa Osborne
RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#XRforImpact
May 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Join our May 15 meetup for a look inside “In Search of Us,” the 2025 Tribeca Immersive showcase, co-presented by Tribeca, Onassis ONX, and Agog.
Hear from @kayseabee.bsky.social (Tribeca), Jazia Hammoudi (ONX), and Loren Hammonds (TIME Studios). #ImmersiveMedia #Tribeca2025
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May 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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The Tribeca Immersive 2025 lineup dropped 👀

11 projects. 6 world premieres. All exploring connection, understanding, and truth through XR, AI, music & more.

Proud to be co-presenting with Tribeca & Onassis ONX ✨

🗓️ June 4–15
📍 Water Street Projects at WSA
🔗 tribecafilm.com/films/tribec...
April 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Save the date: April 17, 1–2pm PT ⏰

Our next Agog Community Meetup explores Indigeneity in XR with Melanie Nepinak Hadley and Isabelle Ruiz of the Indigenous Screen Office.

From immersive ethics to worlding futures, you won’t want to miss this. @iso-bea.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM