Human Scale: An Architect’s Path to VR with Aishwarya Balagopal

Aishwarya Balagopal traces her path from architecture into creative
technology, starting with an early fascination for how people move
through (and feel inside) spaces. After growing up in Mumbai and later
studying façade design at the University of Southern California, she
talks about how “human factors” in the built environment—scale, light,
material, and perception—became the foundation for how she now thinks
about immersive experiences.

From there, the conversation follows her pivot into UX and then XR/VR
during the COVID era, when she wanted a creative outlet that still
aligned with…