Building Realities: Pi Bada's Career in VR
“I used to tell my manager, a dragon cannot get burned. It turns out, I was wrong. I was not a dragon, I was a person, and it's not fire—it's work.”
Pi Bada builds worlds for a living. As a digital technologist at Meta, her days sit at the intersection of engineering, art, and the very physical limits of the human body inside a headset.
The Dragon Story
She thought she was invincible. The burnout that followed rewrote how she thinks about ambition, and what she now tells younger colleagues about pacing a career.
What VR Teaches You About Reality
Working in immersive tech, Pi has developed a sharp sense of what makes a space feel real—lessons that apply well beyond a headset.
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