Snap Inc.
The company behind Snapchat and the Spectacles AR glasses.
Sponsorship 2026–27 is open
Sponsor McGillXR
Meet the students building Montreal's next XR, health tech and neurotech projects. We are planning our 2027 hackathon and this season's demo nights, and we are looking for partners.
Our 2026–27 prospectus is being prepared; last season's (2025–26) shows the kind of packages we offer.
Who you reach
CareXR 2026 brought together 105 students from computer science, engineering, neuroscience, medicine and the arts, who built 23 projects. Every event is open to students from any school, and no XR experience is needed to take part.
- Students at our hackathons
- 231+
- XR projects built
- 45
- Organizations backing us since 2022
- 31
- Events run since 2022
- 22
How you can back us
These are the partnerships we run most often. Have something else in mind? Tell us.
Sponsor the 2027 hackathon
Fund prizes or the event itself. Sponsors get their logo on our website, posters, banners and social media, and depending on the package a booth, a company talk, and a challenge track of their own for teams to build for.
Put your hardware in their hands
Headsets, devices or software for participants to build on. Teams at CareXR built for Snap Spectacles in a sponsor track of their own.
Speak, demo or judge
Give a talk at a workshop, sit on a demo night panel, show your product to students, or judge and mentor at the hackathon.
Host or feed an event
A room for a workshop or a weekend, or food for a room of hungry builders. Food partners are credited on the event and on this page.
Who has backed us
31 organizations since 2022, by the year they supported us.
2026
Sponsors
Shriners Hospitals for Children — Canada
Since 2025
Pediatric orthopaedic hospital in Montreal, and the home of our hackathons.
SickKids Foundation
The fundraising foundation of The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
Centre for Digital Brain Therapies (CDBT)
National hub for digital brain therapies at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.
Network for Applied Technology (NAT)
Edmonton nonprofit running workshops and competitions in emerging technology, including natHacks.
Forces AVENIR
Quebec organization that recognizes and promotes student engagement.
Poptronic
Since 2025
Canadian virtual reality rental and event company.
Réseau santé numérique (RSN)
Quebec research network for digital health.
Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon
Montreal business law firm.
Food partners
Parc-Ex Curry Collective
2025
Sponsors
Shriners Hospitals for Children — Canada
Pediatric orthopaedic hospital in Montreal, and the home of our hackathons.
SilicoLabs
Since 2024
Montreal software company building tools for designing and running VR experiments.
Niantic
Augmented reality company behind the 8th Wall and Niantic Studio WebXR tools.
Réseau de recherche en santé buccodentaire et osseuse (RSBO)
Quebec research network for oral and bone health.
NeurAlbertaTech
Since 2024
Student organization at the intersection of neuroscience and technology.
Poptronic
Canadian virtual reality rental and event company.
McGill Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship
McGill's entrepreneurship centre and home of the Dobson Cup startup competition.
Coopérathon
Open-innovation program that mentors teams from a challenge idea to a startup.
ÉlanTech
Montreal non-profit, formerly Montréal NewTech, that has supported the tech startup community since 2008.
Aesculapian Society, Queen's University School of Medicine
The student society of Queen's University's School of Medicine.
McGill Faculty of Engineering
Food partners
2024
Sponsors
The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital)
McGill's Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital and the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute.
Meshy
3D asset generation tooling for creators and developers.
Meta
The company behind the Meta Quest headsets.
SilicoLabs
Montreal software company building tools for designing and running VR experiments.
2023
2022
Networks
Get involved
Sponsor our 2026–27 season
Back prizes, hardware, a venue, a talk or a challenge track of your own, at the 2027 hackathon or at a demo night. Write to mcgillxr@gmail.com and we will put together a package that fits.