About Us

CGO Studios is a Los Angeles-based immersive media studio creating historically accurate virtual reality experiences that allow audiences to step inside the defining moments of the past.

We work with leading historians, museums, institutions, families, and subject-matter experts to recreate history with an extraordinary level of detail — not simply as entertainment, but as a new kind of visual historical record. From the first flight of the Wright Brothers to Anne Frank’s time in hiding, the first ascent of Everest, the discovery of DNA’s double helix, and the invention of the printing press, our work brings history closer, more vividly, and more personally than ever before.

CGO Studios was founded on a simple belief: history should not feel distant.

For more than a decade, we have developed immersive recreations of pivotal historical moments, combining deep research, expert curation, cinematic storytelling, and cutting-edge technology. Each project begins with a commitment to accuracy — studying primary sources, visual records, architectural details, historical accounts, and expert guidance — and ends with an experience designed to make audiences feel as if they are truly present.

Our work is created for museums, schools, cultural institutions, partners, and the general public, helping viewers understand not just what happened, but what it may have felt like to be there.

CGO Studios builds immersive historical experiences for virtual reality, museums, classrooms, cultural institutions, and emerging digital platforms.

Our projects range from standalone historical recreations to larger educational environments, including Ex Libris: Immersive Museum of History, a virtual museum where audiences can explore a growing collection of carefully curated historical exhibits. Across each format, our goal remains the same: to transform research into experiences that are accurate, accessible, emotionally resonant, and unforgettable.

Accuracy is at the center of everything we create. Each project begins with deep historical research, drawing from primary sources, photographs, architectural references, written accounts, archival materials, and expert insight.

From there, we work with historians, curators, institutions, families, and cultural partners to verify details and guide interpretation. When records are incomplete, we don’t guess casually. We compare evidence, consult experts, and make historically grounded decisions.

Using real-time 3D engines, cinematic production techniques, motion capture, photogrammetry, volumetric tools, and AI-assisted workflows, we transform that research into immersive worlds that feel vivid, respectful, and true to the history they represent.

History is often taught through text, photographs, artifacts, or documentary footage. These remain essential, but immersive media allows us to add something new: presence.

By placing viewers inside carefully reconstructed historical moments, we help make the past feel immediate and human. A classroom lesson becomes an experience. A museum exhibit becomes a world. A famous event becomes something a viewer can stand within, observe, and remember.

Our goal is not to replace traditional history education. It is to deepen it — helping audiences connect with history not only intellectually, but emotionally.

CGO Studios has developed and continues to develop a wide-ranging library of immersive historical recreations, including moments of scientific discovery, cultural achievement, exploration, social change, and world history.

Our projects include FIRST, focused on the Wright Brothers’ first flight and created with curation from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; ANNE, centered on Anne Frank’s time in hiding and the world surrounding her story; EVEREST ’53, following the first successful summit of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay; GUTENBERG, exploring the invention of the printing press; DNA, focused on the discovery of the double helix; and EUREKA, centered on the discovery of gold in California.

Together, these experiences form the foundation of a broader effort to make history more accessible, memorable, and alive for audiences everywhere.

Whether you are a museum, school, cultural institution, sponsor, media partner, or organization interested in immersive historical storytelling, CGO Studios would love to connect.