Fanni Fazakas is an Unreal Engine Technical Artist, Director, and Researcher who focuses on elevating the stories of underestimated individuals in XR to achieve measurable positive real-world impact. Her current project, Missing 10 Hours VR, is a non-fiction Virtual Reality experience with multiple endings that explores the use of GHB as a date-rape drug and the Bystander Effect. The project has earned recognition as the Best in Show VR at Siggraph Los Angeles and Best XR Impact at DocEdge Film Festival New Zealand.
Fanni is a Senior Lecturer at Victoria University Wellington – Te Herenga Waka, where she teaches in the Master of Design Technology program. Previously, she taught non-linear storytelling at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, where she also earned her BA degree. Fanni is a graduate of the New York University ITP Program, where she earned her master’s degree in 2019.