Stacey Spiegel

[7] As a new media installation designer and artist, Spiegel worked early on with Dr. Rodney Hoinkes (Harvard Graduate School of Design) creating state-of-the-art digital installations at events such as DEAF (Dutch Electronic Arts Festival) in 1995 and 1996, Rotterdam City Festival (Safe Harbour, a harbour simulator of Marine Safety featuring a 360-degree Virtual Reality environment for experiencing the multicultural city of Rotterdam),[8] MultiMediale, and Ars Electronica.

The goal of these labs was to test the potential for groups of users to co-create content for a learning system in real-time using a range of media assets - images, video, audio, text.

The inaugural Immersion Lab was established at the University of California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism in partnership with German media scholars Dr. Ute Ritterfeld and Dr. Peter Vorderer.

Immersion's subsequent products included the Immersion Cinema, a 180-degree HD digital cinema experience[10] which has been installed in museums and science centres around the world, including Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota Florida, Discovery Center of Springfield Missouri, Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration in Connecticut, and The Smithsonian in Washington DC.

[17] Another of Spiegel's installations, Synthetic Eden, can be discovered in a hidden courtyard within the Financial District (Yonge and Adelaide Street East), a collection of three eclectic water-based sculptures and etched glass windscreens.