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She truly is the renaissance woman of the immersive era.

VR/AR Association

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Clients

  • Riggs possesses a rare interdisciplinary dexterity that allows her to break new ground in conceptualizing and crafting narratives in immersive technology.

    Jerome Solomon, Conference Chair, ACM SIGGRAPH 2017

  • Stephanie Riggs has been at the forefront of narrative innovation for years.

    Frank Rose, author “The Art of Immersion”

  • Stephanie’s extensive experience across corporations, start-ups, non-profit, and academia creates a unique perspective that has the potential to evolve how immersive creators think about and develop stories in a profound way.

    Jake Zim, SVP of Virtual Reality, Sony Pictures Entertainment

  • At Refinery29, we have a mission to change the way people see the world, to shake up the status quo, to reflect the world we are seeing around us. Stephanie embodies that vision.

    Amy Emmerich, President of North America & Chief Content Officer, Refinery29

  • Stephanie Riggs emerges as a 21st century Marshall McLuhan, proving that the medium is so much more than just a message.

    Jesse Schell, CEO Schell Games

About Stephanie

For over twenty-five years, Stephanie Riggs has been researching, designing, building, and sharing immersive creations around the world. A former Disney Imagineer and Refinery29/Vice Media Experiential Creative Director, she has transformed narrative, experience and immersive technology in ground-breaking projects across theatre, theme park, film, VR, AR, and experiential. From generative narratives to artificial intelligence, Stephanie passionately explores the possibilities of the future of story and technology with diverse, interdisciplinary teams.

Stephanie is the author of the acclaimed book “The End of Storytelling: The Future of Narrative in the Storyplex”, which was the #1 book on VR in Amazon and is listed in the Best Mixed Reality Books of All Time and 100 Best Selling Augmented Reality Books of All Time by BookAuthority. She earned simultaneous degrees from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama (Directing) and School of Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction), and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and an Andrew Carnegie Society Scholar.