Interactivity Researcher / XR Creative
A researcher and designer, Loup Vuarnesson explores the links between cognitive sciences, immersive experiences and contemplative practices.
Within the Spatial Media group at EnsadLab, he defended a PhD thesis on improvised gesture and natural interfaces as foundations for designing optimal experiences in immersive media (PSL University, SACRe, 2023). His research notably explored the concept of "Shared Diminished Reality", a virtual reality paradigm for the study of embodied intersubjectivity. He then pursued his work at the LNCO laboratory at EPFL, investigating the potential of immersive technologies to support meditative experiences and altered states of consciousness.
He is co-founder of the Hypnoscope collective, whose flagship project La Tisseuse d'Histoires — a multimodal improvisation performance blending VR, storytelling and puppeteering — has been presented at Festival Chroniques (Marseille) and RectoVRso (Laval).
Now Design Director at All Here, he co-designed Zenbu Koko, a platform dedicated to learning contemplative practices, developed in collaboration with the architectural firm Kengo Kuma and Associates. There, he works on making complex meditative practices accessible through virtual reality, via interactive programs that engage the body and the representation of self.
