Nicole Stenger is a French-born American artist, pioneer in virtual reality and Internet movies.

The VR work was done at the Hitlab (University of Washington) using VPL's Virtualization interface and its Body Electric software running on the IRIS.

While at MIT, Stenger also contributed to the seminal Cyberspace First Steps edited by Michael L. Benedikt with the now famous essay "Mind is a Leaking Rainbow".

My Faux Cinema’s website (1998–2003) was a project composed of web pages with animated gifs, java applets, open source audio files, textual parts written by Stenger or sampled from the Internet.

During the first decade of the 21st century, Stenger worked on a series of VRML movies and environments, which, though she had no more access to VR interfaces, were still conceived for immersion.

The movie is a travel through time, in which users revisit their childhood and meet their ancestors from a remote past.

Created in Machinima style, this 3D/2D animation is a cautionary tale on the effects of cyberwar on our daily lives.

In 2016, Stenger began experimenting with moving past projects into Unity and Oculus for VR game exploration.