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  • Jenn Duong

Meet the 21-Year-Old Woman Who Is Plotting the Future of VR

It's a warm morning in March and Jenn Duong is sitting on the stoop of a soundstage pondering the future of virtual reality. "I love interactive virtual reality. I play that all the time, but I think the unique thing is you're putting someone into a headset right now. I don't know if it will be this way forever," she says. "In my dreams, VR and augmented reality [AR] will converge in glasses that are like ours, and we'll take them on and off."
Duong, who recently turned 21, is a freelance VR director who got her start at Mack Sennett Studios and 1215creative; she's also the co-founder of SH//FT (Shaping Holistic Inclusion in Future Technology) and the group Women in VR. And she did all this without being able to legally drink or rent a car.
Read the full article here. Words by Jonny Coleman.