E051 - Interview - Monica Arés, former Head of Immersive Learning at Meta, Executive Director at IDEA Lab of the Imperial College London

Spatial Realities (english) · Oct 5, 2023 · 1h 9m

Thomas Riedel

Monica Arés

Interview

In this episode I am incredibly happy that I was able to talk to Monica Ares. Monica is a global leader for Immersive Learning, XR and AI. Her immersive journey started as Director of the Dr. William Russell Blake Planetarium in Plymouth, teaching over 5.000 students annually. To bring the benefits of Immersive Learning to more people, she went to Amazon and finally to Meta, where she was responsible to develop VR content with 3rd party developers to create high-quality VR educational experiences for the Oculus App Store among other things. She was…