Jessica Brillhart


Jessica Brillhart is an American immersive director, writer, and theorist, known for her pioneering techniques in virtual reality filmmaking.

Career

Google

As principal filmmaker for virtual reality at Google, Brillhart developed content including "," the first virtual reality film created using the Jump platform, and pioneered editing techniques for virtual reality including Probabilistic Experiential Editing.
Following Ann Druyan's use of the term in an interview, Brillhart began differentiating between VR film experiences and 2D films, or "flatties," and popularizing the term in interviews and conferences.

Vrai Pictures, Traverse, and University of Southern California

In 2018, Brillhart founded , an immersive content company.
In 2019, Vrai Pictures and Superbright created , a platform for spatial audio experiences which uses a mobile device and AR audio wearables. Traverse was awarded Special Jury Recognition for The Future of Experience at SXSW. On June 25, 2019, USC announced Brillhart as the incoming director of the Institute for Creative Technologies' Mixed Reality Lab.