December 2016 – Immersive Riggs

The Holy Grail of consumer-viable VR right now is finding a reliable combination of 1)untethered, 2)room-scale, and 3)social immersive environments. Pick 2 of of the…

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About Stephanie Riggs

VR:
Holojam in Wonderland (2017)
Angst: the Panic Attack (2017)
Monet in Giverny (2017)
'Kanju' (Tribeca 2016)
1st to film US President in VR (2015)
1st feature film on Oculus Rift (2014)
all the way back to...
SIGGRAPH99

Film:
Director, "The Standbys", NYT Critic's Pick
Producer, "Banshee Chapter", Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Award Winner

Select Collaborations:
Disney Imagineering, Intel, Bleeding Edge Interactive, Disney Creative Entertainment, Walt Disney Productions, HBO, GoogleVR, JauntVR, InceptionVR, UnityLabs, Fox Innovation Lab

Select Speaking Engagements:
SIGGRAPH, Tribeca Film Festival, World Immersion Forum, IEEE, Hollywood Entertainment Technology Festival, Digital Hollywood, YHouse, Yale University

Select Speaking Topics:
Experiential Storytelling (Tribeca '16)
The Reality of Virtual Reality (Financial Times '16)
Incorporating HCI to create better immersive environments (SIGGRAPH '16)
The End of Storytelling (World Immersion Forum '17)
The Art of Immersion (IEEE '18)

Education Initiatives:
Guest Lecturer, Yale University
Blended Reality Research co-lead, Yale University
AR/VR Academy NYC
Oculus/Facebook VR for Good

Grad:
CMU, Directing, School of Drama
CMU, HCI, School of Computer Science

Company:
Sunchaser Entertainment

Contact:
stephanie (at) immersiveriggs (dot) com

Month: December 2016

The Case Against Reality

Can Holojam be the Holy Grail of VR?