Immersive experiences. Community connection. Flourishing futures.

Immersive experiences that transform you.

Makers of Awe uses the latest technology to create experiences built for connection, creativity, presence, and awe.

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Our team has built experiences for
Human+Tech Week, Deloitte, YouTube, Sphere, Nickelodeon, Snickers, Microsoft
Our Mission
Our mission is to build technology that brings exceptional people together, co-creating transformative experiences that enable the future we want to live in.
Embodied Futurism in practice
The experiences

Our immersive experiences.

Working pieces of art and engineering, designed to deepen presence, spark connection, and support transformation. We use the latest AI to build technology that's more human, not less.

Dream Forward · Film
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These experiences blend cutting-edge vision models, realtime video generation, and somatic sensing in ways well beyond anything I saw at Google — or in my 20+ years of being responsible for knowing what cool shit is, and is about to be.
Seth Raphael
TED Fellow · MIT Media Lab · Google Senior Designer of the Future

Work with us

Tell us what you're imagining.

Every inquiry gets our overview doc and a 15-minute call on the calendar.

How to work with us

Rent an immersive experience.

Or go further. Three ways to bring Makers of Awe to your event, brand, or clients.

Book a Rental

Bring Dream Forward, Rise, HeartMirror, or any of our experiences to your event, deployed and run by our team.

Commission a Custom Build

An ownable or licensable immersive world built on our technology, custom-created for your brand, venue, or event.

Join Our Partner Program

For agencies and event companies: offer Makers of Awe experiences to your clients, with partner pricing and our production team behind you.

Every inquiry gets our overview doc and a 15-minute call on the calendar.
What's available to rent
  • Dream Forward. Speak, and AI renders your vision as moving image in real time.
  • Rise. Interactive dance that reacts to your movement and music across multiple synced screens.
  • Stillness. Guided breathwork with your chakras projected in real time.
  • The Oracle. A glowing AI entity that listens and answers like a fortune-teller.
  • HeartMirror. Real-time biofeedback that projects your own heartbeat.
  • The Bullshit Genie. An agent oracle that gives absurdly specific, weirdly profound fortunes.
Past gatherings

Embody the Future.

Our inaugural immersion. July 11, 2026, Los Angeles.

Artists, thinkers, creators, and doers came together for an evening of conscious dance, immersive art, creative shared visioning, and a long beautiful meal. The next gathering is already taking shape.

Embody the Future poster
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Immersive art that inspires you to move.
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What's inside

The ingredients of our immersive experiences.

Five elements we compose into every experience.

01

Embodiment

Change lands in the body before it reaches the mind. Drop into your body and feeling, presence, and real connection all become possible.

02

Play

Play is where it is safe to try, fail, and be surprised. Lower the stakes and people take real chances, and open up.

03

Connection

The point is each other. We build the conditions for genuine bonds between people who would never otherwise meet.

04

Presence

Most of life is spent somewhere else. Every moment is designed to pull your attention fully into this room, with these people.

05

Imagination

Picturing a better future is the first step toward building one. We give people the tools to imagine what they want, and to share it.

What we believe

Our Principles.

Ten things we hold as we make the experience.

i. Embodiment ii. Participation iii. Connection iv. Play v. Abundance vi. Mystery vii. Technology viii. Consent ix. Compassion x. Integration
The stewards

The team.

Kyle Ruddick
Founder
Rob Johnson
Senior AI & Technology Lead
Erin Rose Ward
Movement / Experience Facilitator
Robert Brown
Lead Designer
Riley Gatz
Engineering & Software
Cristina Poindexter
BD & Strategy
Advisors
Alan Macy
Biomedical Sensor Designer · BIOPAC
Brigitte Wittmer
Movement / Experience Facilitator
Carly Bindon
Movement / Experience Facilitator
Grace Kay Matelich
AI Strategist
Nicholas Paul
Philosopher
Seth Raphael
High-Tech Magician
We're hiring

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Get in touch

Rent an experience, or commission a custom build.

Bring a Makers of Awe experience to your event, or have us design an immersive world just for you. Tell us what you're imagining and we'll be in touch.

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