Open World Hackathon: building the future of physical AI

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Join us for a full day of building physical AI through three different tracks:

Theme 1 • Open Narrative

Build real-world scenarios and puzzle experiences inside VLGE. Capture real environments with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) for photoreal worlds, or build faster using VLGE's growing library of 3D templates. Whether it's an escape room, a navigation challenge, or a recreation of a real-life situation, create an experience that feels believable, immersive, and fun to solve.

Theme 2 • VLGE Together

Create multiplayer worlds that bring people together. Build experiences where users collaborate, compete, explore, or simply hang out in real time. From co-op challenges and party games to social hubs and live events, the best worlds will make people want to come back and play together.

Theme 3 • Free Track

Got an idea that doesn't fit anywhere else? This is your chance to build it. Use any tools, data, or features available in VLGE, from world generation and behavioral telemetry to spatial capture and templates. Surprise us with something original that pushes the platform further than we thought possible.

Win up to $10,000 worth in prizes.

Brought to you by VLGE AI, building the human behavioral layer for physical AI: spatial and human data of real people moving through the real world, with provenance you can trace.

We believe in transparency about where physical-world data is coming from. Come build with us!

Supported by the residency to empower founders in physical ai with better data.

Open to engineers, researchers, roboticists, and anyone who builds things that move in the physical world.

Schedule

9:30 — DOORS OPEN
10:00 — Kickoff: tracks, datasets, rules, release forms
13:00 — Lunch
17:00 — Mentor check-ins
18:30 — Submissions close
19:00 — Demos
19:45 — Judging and prizes
20:00 — Close

Judges

Evelyn Mora - CEO & cofounder of VLGE

Drew Jaegle - Member of Technical Staff at Prometheus

Paige Bailey - DevX Eng. Lead at Deepmind

Ignacio López-Francos - AI Research Lead at NASA, SETI Institute

Riya Dashoriya - Engineering Manager at Meta

Nureldin Mohamed - Harvard University, Wyss Institute

Harsh Sharma - ComputerVision at NVIDIA

Apply below! You can join solo or as a team.