Felicity Chen

About

Digital futures must be diverse, humane, and grounded in connection.

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Immersive Filmmaker and Game Designer · China / United Kingdom

Felicity Chen works at the intersection of film, game, documentary, and creative technology. Her work explores how interactive and digital storytelling can foster empathy and inclusion.

Through hybrid forms of cinematic and immersive expression, she creates spaces where underrepresented voices can be heard and where imagination becomes a tool for solidarity.

Education

BA Drama and Film Studies University of Manchester

MA Immersive Factual Storytelling University College London

Game Design VR/MR Experience Documentary

Work

Immersive Documentary

VR Documentary — In Development

Persona VR

Based on lived experiences from VRChat: two young individuals grew up under rigid gender norms in China and Russia, living as impostors; an autistic woman in the Netherlands, overwhelmed by a world her mind processes differently. Three lives confined by invisible walls, until they discover the transformative potential of virtual bodies and social spaces within VR.

What if they can become anything they want with no real consequences?

VRImmersive DocumentarySocial VR

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Persona VR

VR Exhibition

VR Exhibition — Director

Unseen Beauty

Unseen Beauty: Art Beyond Sight invites you to explore beauty beyond what we see, where sound, touch, memory, emotion, and imagination take the lead. This inclusive exhibition celebrates the diversity and richness of how beauty is perceived and experienced by visually impaired people.

Framework: Watch, listen, touch, and reflect.

Supported by: Arts Council England · Liverpool Hope University · Edge Hill University · Liverpool John Moores University

VRExhibitionMultisensory

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Unseen Beauty

VR Training Tools

VR Training — 360° Video Editor

Voices in the Dark

Launched April 2026. A Virtual Reality training tool exploring the female experience of night-time economy venues. Building on Calico's previous work CurfewVR, this project takes an empathy-led approach into bars, pubs, nightclubs, and music venues — supporting staff to better understand and respond to gendered violence and harassment.

Objective: Facilitate culture change and promote a victim-centred approach to safety in nightlife spaces.

Funded by: Innovate UK

VR Training360° VideoInteractive

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Voices in the Dark

XR Products

AR Product — Experience Design & Promo

Pinpoint (AR)

Turning physical touch into spatial memory, and fleeting intent into structured retail intelligence.

ARSnap SpectaclesIntelligent Retail

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Pinpoint AR

MR Product — Experience Design & Promo

HugPrint

A virtual hug.

Mixed RealityHapticsWearable

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HugPrint

Photography

A selection of stills and moments.

Panel

Panel — New Images Film Festival, Paris · April 2026

Digital Life: Connecting through Virtuality

A conversation on how people form real friendships and intimacy in virtual worlds — sharing the journey of Persona VR as a meta-VR story of unmasking and belonging within Social VR communities.

Social XR Digital Intimacy

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Felicity Chen on Digital Life panel at New Images Film Festival Paris

New Images, Paris

Panel — 8th Film & TV Industry Innovation Conference, Shenzhen

AI and the Contemporary Audience

A cross-cultural conversation on how AI is being understood and applied across film, game and immersive industries — not as a replacement for artistic labour, but as a means to liberate creators from structural constraints and unlock new narrative structures.

AI & Storytelling Cross-cultural Practice

Felicity Chen at the 8th Film and TV Industry Innovation Conference, Shenzhen

Shenzhen, China

Guest Lecture

Guest Lecture — Winchester School of Arts · April 2026

Beyond the Mask: Identity, Virtuality, and the Future of Immersive Storytelling

Deconstructing the creative odyssey of Persona VR — how advanced technology and humane narrative meet to drive radical empathy. A dialogue on building a digital future that is technologically advanced and authentically connected.

Winchester School of Arts