Our Team
Reagan Louie, Project Lead
Reagan Louie is an internationally recognized photographer. His work is collected and exhibited in museums such as; MOMA, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Gwangju Biennale. His first book on China, “Toward a Truer Life” was named the photography book of the year by the New York Times. Reagan’s journeys to China were the inspiration for Ralston’s Wing Wor VR project. He has worked closely with the team to help shape the narrative arc of the experience.
Awu Chen, Immersive Media Director
Awu Chen graduated from the USC Interactive Media & Games program where he met Ralston while developing Ama’s Momento. Ama’s Momento was Awu’s personal VR project dedicated to preserving his grandma’s life story as a Taiwanese art collector. Ralston and Awu bonded over their shared interest in using VR to preserve personal stories. Ralston became a developer on the project and worked with Awu to finish the project which won the IndieCade 2019 award. Awu then went on to produce Dear Mom which won BAFTAs immersive media award in 2020. Awu now leads the team creating Wing Wor.
Marientina Gotsis, Design Researcher
Marientina Gotsis is Professor of Practice at USC and director of the Creative Media & Behavioral Health Center. Motivated by his grandmother’s struggle with Alzheimer's, Ralston was interested in health applications for VR. He studied with Marientina, and she eventually became a mentor for Wing Wor.
Vangelis Lympouridis, Advisory Committee Lead
Vangelis Lympouridis is the founder of Enosis, a design innovation studio known for producing the Bohemian Rhapsody VR experience for Google and Queen and working on immersive R&D projects with clients such as Deloitte, HP Labs, LSE, AppliedVR, JPL-NASA, and others. Lympouridis taught the AR/VR and Mixed Reality course at the Viterbi School of Engineering, where he met and supervised Ralston first as a student and later as a teaching assistant to the same class. He mentored Ralston during his thesis project and lent him the Lidar system to scan the Wing Wor village in China. He is the lead advisor on the project.
AmaVR, The Studio
AmaVR is a collective of immersive media storytellers dedicated to remembering moments that keep us together, even when we are apart. The group was founded in 2017 while creating Ama’s Momento, a mixed reality exhibit preserving the grandmother of co-founder Awu Chen. A project Ralston was deeply involved with. Since then, their work has been recognized by the LA Times as “heart-achingly thoughtful”, earned them nominations for prestigious awards such as the BAFTA, and gain distribution from Meta.
Awu Chen - Director
Lizzy Hogenson - Producer
Nicholas Pudjarminta - Technical Producer & 3D Generalist
Kevin Wu - Unity Developer
Steven Harmon - Technical Artist
Zong Chiang - Composer & Sound Designer
Fernando Cabrera - Sound Mixer