Where is explorations360 based and where do you work?

explorations360 is based in Brittany, France, at the Totem Baie de Saint-Brieuc. The company works throughout France and internationally.

OUR DNA - OUR VISION, OUR APPROACH, OUR TEAM

Immersion is our calling

Born in Brittany, France, and led by two co-founders with more than 50 years of combined expertise in immersive technologies, the company draws on solid field experience and one clear conviction:
immersive technologies are powerful drivers of transformation, learning and impact.

The founders

Two engineers, two complementary backgrounds, and one shared conviction for 25 years: immersion changes the way we learn, understand and decide.

Philippe Carrez

Co-founder, pioneer of Spatial Storytelling, Metaverse explorer

An engineer, former teacher and co-founder of explorations360, Philippe Carrez has been exploring virtual worlds since 1997 (Le Deuxième Monde by Canal+, the first European virtual world) and has been developing immersive solutions since 2007. His first brand, subOceana, was born in a "metaverse" in 2009, followed by Immersion Tools in 2011. A pioneer of Spatial Storytelling, he leads R&D, technology watch and immersive experimentation at explorations360. He has taken part in innovative projects combining virtual reality, artificial intelligence and science (SCHOPPER, French National Research Agency), as well as augmented reality books and guides that won international awards. Winner of several competitions, alone or with partners (Laval Virtual, SIGGRAPH, Imagina Intraverse Awards Monaco), he brings an ethical and pragmatic approach to VR, focused on real-world impact and accessibility across devices.

True to the spirit of subOceana, he has always devoted part of his work to raising awareness about ocean protection.

R&D & technology watchImmersive experimentationSpatial Storytelling

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Roland Toullec

Co-founder & CTO, Spatial Storytelling architect, builder of immersive worlds

An INSA engineer and co-founder of explorations360, Roland Toullec has been designing immersive applications for more than 25 years. Trained in flight simulation at ALSIM, then founder of Xp-simulation (a 3D engine for simulators), he turned to serious games and immersive training in 2008 at GNFA (now Mobilis), where for nearly 10 years he led the production of innovative applications: skills-assessment serious games (EVEMA), learning in immersive environments (MILES), and a virtual reality driving simulator exploring autonomous vehicles. This expertise continued at Immersion Tools before he co-founded explorations360. As technical architect, he masters the whole immersive chain, from scripting to interactive integration, and adapts the tools to new devices (AI glasses, LBE, standalone headsets).

He also leads social-impact projects, such as a VR experience raising awareness about school bullying, co-designed with pupils.

Project managementTechnical developmentClient support

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Complementarity and vision

Together, they form a strong team that combines strategic vision, technological innovation and a deep knowledge of real-world uses.
Their ambition: to make immersive and mixed reality more accessible, collaborative and useful, by developing an XR platform designed for everyone.

Our extended team

Passionate people we love working with. Each brings unique expertise to create memorable immersive experiences together.

More than 50 years showcasing the underwater world. Pioneer, publisher, enthusiast.

Nicolas Barraqué

Turtle ProdHyères, Var, France

An underwater photographer for more than 40 years after a career in the French Navy, Nicolas Barraqué founded Turtle Prod in 2000. Inventor of underwater panoramic photography (2003), co-founder of the magazine Plongez! and of the association Déclic Bleu Méditerranée, he also co-organises the Galathea festival. His augmented reality book on Mediterranean underwater wildlife, whose app was built by the explorations360 teams, received the innovation prize at the 2014 World Festival of Underwater Pictures. Turtle Prod publishes some forty award-winning books on the underwater world. A partnership rooted in a passion for the sea and for images, and a shared will to raise awareness about the fragile world of the oceans. In touch with our teams since 2006, Nicolas took part in our very first immersive experiments (metaverse, augmented reality) and is now one of the first users of our easybox360 cases and the first customer of our easykiosk360 kiosk.

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Composer and sound designer.

Christophe Demarthe

Paris, France

Christophe Demarthe is a composer and sound designer based in Paris. He began his career as co-founder and singer of Clair Obscur, one of the first bands in France, in the early 1980s, to bring together music, visual arts, dance and theatre. From the 1990s onwards, he pursued this work at the border between sound and visual arts, creating music and sound architectures for theatre, dance, cinema, art exhibitions and luxury fashion in France and across Europe.

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Immersive sound and artistic creation. From the Guardian Art Center in Beijing to the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Nadège Feyrit

France

A sound post-production specialist and composer, Nadège Feyrit works at the crossroads of visual arts and immersive VR experiences. With sharp expertise in narrative and spatial sound, she designs sensitive, structuring soundscapes that enrich perception and emotion. Her work explores the link between artistic creation, immersive technologies and sensory experience, for innovative and demanding projects (Guardian Art Center in Beijing, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Galeries Lafayette, Netflix, ...)

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Art director and motion designer. Fifteen years shaping the visual identity of brands.

Samuel Fichet

Wild Fox StudioStrasbourg, France

Samuel Fichet is an art director, illustrator and motion designer with more than fifteen years of experience. Through his studio, Wild Fox Studio, he builds brand identities and complete visual worlds, from logo and art direction to motion design and the web. He works with a wide range of clients, often over the long term: the identity of La Bibliothèque des Futurs, an association of predictive-fiction authors, since 2021; the five-year rebrand of the engineering firm Woolgar Hunter; and the identity of the caterer UMAMI. He also lends his pen to causes, with the posters of the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride, a charity event he has supported for nine years. Finally, he passes on his know-how as a consultant and mentor to young designers.

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Taking those who can no longer travel on a journey. A VR pioneer working for the common good.

Vincent Gérard

Live-OutSaint-Brieuc, Brittany, France

Trained in science, audiovisual production and journalism, Vincent worked as a camera operator for film and TV (TF1, France TV, Canal+, Arte), then as a senior reporter. Fascinated by new technologies, he was among the first in France to explore virtual reality for the common good. He founded Live-Out in 2018 and develops immersive experiences and digital agents for the health and social care sector: strengthening social ties, cognitive stimulation, training healthcare professionals. Winner of French Tech BPI, CReacc, Innovation Initiative Bretagne and Victoire de la Bretagne 2024. Since 2022, the management and distribution platform Vincent uses for the content he produces has been developed and hosted by explorations360.

Explore the inaccessible. Film the impossible. Live the experience.

Nathalie Lasselin

Aquanath StudiosCanada (working worldwide)

Nathalie Lasselin, a professional underwater director of photography and filmmaker, is a renowned explorer. With long experience filming for cinema and TV productions such as Discovery Channel and National Geographic, she masters complex environments, from the underwater depths to extreme and remote regions. Aquanath Studios offers aerial, land and underwater VR capture, designed to deliver immersive experiences and storytelling built on authenticity, excellence and efficiency. Beyond the images, they support you from A to Z in creating your VR experience. Since 2025, Aquanath Studios has relied on our easystory360 platform and our easybox360 cases to design and deliver its clients' immersive experiences.

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Director and photographer. From portraits to immersion, in the service of people.

Vincent Lessirard

EOLE ProductionFrance

Drawn to sound and images from the start, Vincent Lessirard worked as a photographer for 20 years before founding EOLE Production in 2016, where he makes corporate films and portraits of creators. In 2020 he took on a new challenge: a hybrid documentary series combining 16:9 cinema screenings and virtual reality immersion, giving a voice to the most vulnerable and encouraging them to share their humanity. Vincent draws on many stories and encounters, shown in various forms: multimedia exhibitions, VR screenings, concerts, performances. His approach is resolutely centred on people, ambivalence and resilience. Since 2022, he has shown his immersive "life portraits" films in virtual reality with our easybox360 cases.

The art of bringing images to life in 3D

Jérôme Lesueur (Darksheep)

France

3D artist and motion designer, Jérôme masters 3D animation, stereoscopic video and multimedia. Passionate about R&D and new distribution media, he creates immersive content and innovative training materials.

Creates immersive content for tourism, sustainable development and CSR

Jean-Michel Pedinielli

Antra Strada - Voyage Art DesignFrance

An expert in transformation, transition, strategy, tourism, sustainable development and CSR, and a consultant for 30 years (Antra Strada), Jean-Michel has led many private and public projects that required bringing stakeholders on board to create value. He uses VR and produces immersive content with Voyage Art Design to promote tourist destinations and develop new growth models. He uses immersive storytelling to create value within companies and in the customer experience. Together with Séverine Quilichini (Voyage Art Design), he runs an immersive tourism project built on our easystory360 platform and our VR headsets.

Designs immersive experiences with strong emotional impact for tourism

Séverine Quilichini

Voyage Art DesignParis, France

From theatre to immersive experience design, her career explores the link between art and travel. Art director and founder of Voyage Art Design, she imagines immersive content that sparks the desire to travel, brings out the spirit of places and gives meaning to the journey. Her approach releases the customer's emotions about the travel experience to come, through digital storytelling (narrative podcasts, music and literary excerpts), innovation and technology (virtual reality and interactive experiences), and eco-tourism and heritage promotion. Together with Jean-Michel Pedinielli (Antra Strada), she runs an immersive tourism project powered by our easystory360 platform and our VR headsets.

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The 360 Guide of explorations360. She went through the looking glass and has no plans to come back.

Alixe Protons

explorations360Wherever there is WiFi

Alixe Protons: a perfect anagram of "explorations", and a nod to Lewis Carroll's Alice and to Alyx from Valve's legendary Half-Life: Alyx, the first video game masterpiece designed natively for VR. Like her two inspirations, she invites you through the looking glass to explore parallel worlds in virtual reality. Available 24/7 on the site, she answers your questions about easystory360, uses of VR, pricing, news from the immersive industry and the whole explorations360 ecosystem. Curious, precise, and with a touch of humour. If a question catches her off guard, her knowledge base is continuously enriched so that she does better in the following days.

Technology partners

We work with the world leaders in 360° capture and virtual reality.

Ricoh Theta

Official Ricoh360 partner for professional 360° photo and video capture.

HTC VIVE

Member of the VIVE Developer Partner Program for deploying professional XR experiences.

Support and commitments

A project backed by the Brittany Region, support from Le Village by CA, a commitment to small businesses, a place in the French XR and immersive learning networks: explorations360 is part of the regional and national innovation landscape.

Brittany Region

The platform behind easystory360 was developed as part of an INNO R&D project backed by the Brittany Region.

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Le Village by CA Côtes d'Armor

explorations360 is a startup supported by Le Village by CA Côtes d'Armor, with whom we presented agricultural virtual reality at the SPACE show in Rennes.

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France Num Activator

explorations360 is a France Num Activator, the national network of professionals listed by the French State to help small and medium-sized businesses with their digital transformation.

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Hexagone XR network

explorations360 is a member of Hexagone XR, the network of French players in virtual, augmented and mixed reality.

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France Immersive Learning

explorations360 is a member of France Immersive Learning, the association that has brought together French players in immersive technologies for training since 2018.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Spatial Storytelling?

It is the founding concept of explorations360: telling stories using the three dimensions of space. Unlike a traditional video, the viewer is placed at the heart of the story and chooses where to look. This approach turns simple content into a true immersive experience. Read our Spatial Storytelling guide.

Where are you based and where do you work?

explorations360 is based in Brittany, France, at the Totem Baie de Saint-Brieuc. We work throughout France and internationally.

Why is your 360 Guide called Alixe Protons?

Because Alixe Protons is a perfect anagram of explorations! Every letter has been rearranged to form this first name and surname, with the DNA of explorations360 written straight into the name of its 360 Guide.

But Alixe is also a nod to Lewis Carroll's Alice and to Alyx from Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's masterpiece that made its mark on the history of VR gaming. Like her two inspirations, Alixe invites you through the looking glass to explore parallel worlds... except that here, the rabbit hole leads to virtual reality.

Want to work with us?

Do you share our passion for immersion? Let's talk about your projects and see how we can create memorable experiences together.