Michelle Cortese

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Facebook Horizon: VR Design System

Meta Horizon OS: Quest Design Guide

Designing VR Safety: Research and Performance

Oculus Quest: Casting

#ShoutOutKindness: Born This Way Foundation Installation App

FAKETYPE: Tribeca Film Festival VR Installation

Facebook 3D Posts: Building a New Media Type

NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism: VR Installation

29 Rooms: Official Website

NYX Cosmetics: Interactive Store Experience

Phonemics: Making Microphones from Telecom Trash

VR29: Refinery29’s WebVR Viewer

ChipCodes: Moogfest Installation

log(me): Speech-Tracking Wearable

Ultimate 2013: Programmatic Typeface Design

Synchresis: Kinetic Closed Captioning Experiment

Bob Moses: Dynamic Digital Stage Installation

OpenTrons: Online Makeover

Orbitor 2: Anti-Gravity Digital Pinball

Lord & Taylor’s First Shoppable Lookbook

NIME: Bodysynth

Hudson’s Bay’s The Room: Web and Book Design

Arboration: Gamified Synthesizer

Silents: Accessible Typeface Design

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Michelle Cortese is a Canadian virtual reality designer, artist and futurist residing in Brooklyn. She splits her professional time between designing VR experiences for Oculus at Facebook and teaching creative technology at NYU. Most of her work investigates the transmutation of communication across new technologies and formats. Michelle was previously a Design Technologist at Refinery29; an Experiential Art Director at Fake Love; and has exhibited work at CES, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Sundance Film Festival.