Michelle Cortese

Michelle Cortese is an AR/VR designer, educator and futurist. She splits her professional time between AR/VR design leadership at Meta Reality Labs and teaching VR at NYU. Her work investigates the ethical transmutation of communication and expression across new technologies and formats.

Michelle has authored AR/VR design research published via Bloomsbury, Meta, IEEE, OneZero, MIT's Immerse Journal and more; she has also exhibited work at CES, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Sundance.