> immersive producer & lead technical artist
> senior realtime VFX artist
> unreal engine / unity

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Awards_
→ Siggraph Asia 2024
Best in Show XR Theatre

→ AWE ‘26 [Augmented World Expo]
Art Festival Winner

→ The PFCAT ‘26
Best DomeFilm Documentary

→ FIVARS ‘24
Best VR

→ Europan XR Award ‘24
Best Volumetric Experience

→ The PFCAT ‘24
Best VR

→ Epic MegaGrants Winner

Festival presentations_
◍ REALITY LOOKS BACK [2025]

→ IDFA ‘25 [World Premiere]
→ SXSW ‘26 [U.S Premiere]
→ Thessaloniki Film Festival ‘26
→ PFCAT ’26 [VR & DOME]
→ AWE ‘26 [Augmented World Expo]
→ Aesthetica ’26
→ NewImages ’26
→ SatFest ’26
→ JENA Fulldome Festival ’26
→ Bolten Film Festival ’26
→ AFO ‘26
→ ADAF ’26
→ ART*VR ‘26
→ Lichter Film Fest ‘26
→ SIGGRAPH Vancouver ‘25
→ FIVARS ’26
→ Labocine ‘26 [Science New Wave]

◍ A VOCAL LANDSCAPE [2023]

→ Venice Intl. Film Festival ‘24
Venice Immersive [World-Premiere]
→ SIGGRAPH U.S Denver 2024: VR Theater
→ Aesthetica ‘24
→ SIGGRAPH Asia Tokyo ‘24
→ NewImages ‘24
→ PFCAT ‘24
→ FIVARS ‘24
→ Stereopsia ‘24
→ Poppy Jasper Intl. Film Festival ‘24
→ Ji.hlava Intl Documentary Film Festival ‘24
→ Bridges Intl Film Festival ‘24
→ Kaboom Animation Festival ‘24
→ Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin ‘23 & ’24
→ Sehsüchte Film Festival ‘24
→ Harlem Intl Film Festival ‘24
→ Strasbourg Fantastic Film Festival ’24
→ Bozar: Dreaming in Dialogue ‘25
→ ADAF ‘25 Simulacra
→ Rencontres Internationales Amsterdam ‘25

Interviews_
SIGGRAPH Spotlight EP.10
Spatial Storytelling New Narrative Forms

SIGGRAPH Spotlight EP.81
VR Visionaries Breaking Boundaries

VOICES OF VR PODCAST EP.1703
IDFA 2025 ‘Reality Looks Back’

VOICES OF VR PODCAST EP.1277
Venice Biennale‘23 ‘A Vocal Landscape’

DR.VR Podcast EP.57
‘A Vocal Landscape’ Human Connection in VR

FIVARS 2024
Spotlight on ‘A Vocal Landscape’

real-time project snippets

Dome | SIM : Fully customizable dome simulator app for iOS, Win, Android TV. With PS4 controller over BT & recordable camera movement

Siggraph Asia 2024 Award : A Vocal Landscape won Best in Show XR Theatre

GSplats + VFX in UE

A Vocal Landscape VR premiere at Venice Biennale 2023

GSplats + VFX in UE

Realtime VFX + Volumetric in UE

UE char. animation, cinematic & VFX

Europan XR Awards 2024: A Vocal Lanscape won Best Volumetric Capture

GSplats + VFX in UE

UE VFX, mocap & cinematic

a vocal landscape - RT VR UE

toon shading in UE

unreal engine + stable diffusion

VFX + character animation UE

character animation & cinematic UE

bts irl cinematography

wonder dynamics - character animation

look dev + cinematics UE

previz FLIP sim

AVL RT exhibit at MOOR + unity

previz FLIP sim

at microsoft mixed reality studio - volumetric capture

A Vocal Landscape bts

A Vocal Landscape look dev. particle system

cine

projection mapping / performance. UE/Maya

Tuner AR concept art

previz - FLIP sim

volumetric AVL

Volumetric Capture for RT UE

Kinect depth recording + houdini FLIP particles

UE - Cinematics & ENV dev

specular map + anamorphic volumetric shading

IR cinematography

Houdini - particle system dev

UE - VFX, RT cinematics

cinematography showreel

UE - retargetting

Look DEV - UE

Omid Zarei is an award-winning realtime producer creating immersive stories that explore the unknown while staying grounded in human experience. His work combines cutting-edge emerging technologies with an analog, human approach, embracing the imperfections that makes audiences experience raw emotions.
His immersive projects have premiered at Venice Immersive, SXSW, IDFA, AWE, and presented internationally at SIGGRAPH U.S. (VR Theater), SIGGRAPH Vancouver (Spatial Storytelling), NewImages, FIVARS among others; receiving several awards including “Best XR Theater in Show” at SIGGRAPH Asia. He has initiated, produced and led multi-disciplinary projects with the aim to open a space for team collaboration with visual artists, filmmakers, game devs, sound designers, performers as well as specialised XR artists.