Founder · Immersive Exposure · The Living Mirror
I build technology that puts people inside the moment, and lets them stay there.
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Corey Reese is a technology founder and commercial photographer based in Atlanta, building two companies around a single conviction: some experiences were never meant to be reduced to something you simply watch.
He is the founder of Immersive Exposure, an education platform that films real professional photography sessions in 8K 3D stereoscopic VR so students can stand inside the shoot instead of watching it, available on Meta Quest and any browser. He is also the founder of The Living Mirror, which captures a person’s stories, voice, and presence in immersive VR so their family can sit with them again. Not watching a recording. With them.
Before either company, he spent nearly two decades as a commercial photographer for clients including Essence, BET, Adidas, and BMW, served as Director of Photography for Who’s Who in Black Atlanta, and taught more than 56,000 students across 181 countries.
Ventures
Photography education has always been good at teaching settings. What is much harder to teach is judgment: the hundred decisions a working photographer makes with a real client, in a real room, under real pressure. Immersive Exposure films those sessions in 8K 3D stereoscopic VR and puts you in the room where they happen. It is the assisting year that most photographers never get access to.
immersiveexposure.com
A team comes to the family’s home and films their loved one in true 8K 3D VR. One session, one guided, story-driven conversation that captures their voice, their expressions, and the stories the family will carry forward. Weeks later the headsets go on together, and the room changes. This is the work Corey began with his own family, and it is why the company exists.
thelivingmirror.coStory
Corey Reese became a full-time photographer, building a career around capturing people, brands, and stories. Over the years his work would include campaigns and projects for national brands, publications, entrepreneurs, and public figures.
Corey expanded from creating images to teaching photographers how they are made. His photography education has now reached more than 56,000 students across 181 countries.
Traditional photography education could show the final image and explain the settings, but it could not recreate what it felt like to stand inside the shoot. Corey began exploring immersive video as a way to put photographers directly inside real sessions.
Corey began producing immersive experiences for live audiences, including a fashion experience viewed simultaneously through multiple VR headsets. More than 150 people attended the first activation, demonstrating that immersive media could create a shared experience, not just an individual one.
The experimentation evolved into Immersive Exposure, bringing real photography sessions and interactive photography experiences into immersive environments. The platform received support from Meta Horizon Start, ATDC at Georgia Tech, and Microsoft for Startups.
Immersive Exposure expanded beyond VR headsets, letting photographers step inside real shoots from a phone, tablet, computer, or headset. The technology changed, but the mission remained the same: give people access to the decisions and experiences traditional video leaves out.
After using immersive capture to document his own family, Corey realized the technology could preserve more than education. It could preserve people.
That realization became The Living Mirror, an immersive family biography experience designed to capture a person’s stories, wisdom, expressions, and voice so their family can continue experiencing them for generations.
Work
The technology is new. The eye is not. Nearly two decades of commercial, editorial, and entertainment photography is what makes an 8K 3D VR frame worth standing inside: lighting, direction, and the ability to make a person forget the camera is there.
Director of Photography for Who’s Who in Black Atlanta, with work across beauty, fashion, fitness, and entertainment for national brands and networks.
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For partnerships, press, speaking, and creator collaborations across Immersive Exposure and The Living Mirror.