🌟 The Girl Next Door Who Built Dreams in Virtual Reality 🌟

Hey! I’m Giselle Ramirez—your friendly neighborhood VR designer, dreamer, and happy accident entrepreneurial spirit. 👋✨ This is not another overnight success story. It’s a messy, real, non-linear tale full of likely several moments where I almost gave up… but ultimately didn’t. And here is why you should care.

🎮 From Pizza Nights to Pixels

Imagine a 22-year-old me, fresh from design school, working a crummy desk job at a local print shop. My “office” was a rickety desk next to the coffee machine, and my “clients” were, mostly, small businesses looking for flyers for their weekend sales. Not the epic creative life I’d envisioned. 🥲
But one rainy Tuesday in May changed everything. A friend dragged me to a VR demo at a tech expo. From the moment I put on the headset, I felt I was home. I felt like a kid again—giddy and wide-eyed, totally convinced that this was the place where the magic lived. That night I stayed up past 3 a.m. sketching out VR concepts for myself (napkins are totally valid sketch pads... right? 😂).

💔 The Struggle Was Too Real

I quit my job. (gasp) My parents thought I was completely losing it. I managed to burn through my savings in 6 months. I survived on ramen noodles and stubbornness; I was self-teaching myself Unity and Blender by watching YouTube videos at 2x speed. There were days when I cried in the shower and wondered if this was the biggest mistake of my life.
And then (drum roll) my first break happened. A tiny indie game studio took a chance on me. The pay was embarrassing but I didn’t care—I was in. Fast forward two years: I now went from snugly freelancing with a pillow in my pajamas to starting my own VR design studio producing VR content for brands, artists, and some hush-hush projects that I can’t talk about yet. 🤫

🌈 Why Follow Me?

Because I’m not the elusive "tech genius" persona. I’m the girl next door who understands the struggle. I still geek out over cute coffee shops, binge-watch anime, and have accidentally spilled matcha on my keyboard (RIP 2023 MacBook). I share real stuff about:

• The highs (YAY I finally landed a client who paid me $ for a cup of coffee in emoji reactions.) 😱
• The lows (sorry—the pin I used to create a VR model for a client meeting was rendered upside down.) 🙃
• The WTFs moments of being a woman in tech (I’ve got my "Actually, I’m the designer" smile perfected.)

So if you’re dreaming of building something out of nothing—or just love VR, design, and the real behind-the-scenes chaos—let’s be weird together! 💖✨