Bay Area XR studio / est. 2024

VR.For real.

VR games, immersive installations, and XR consulting.

Building worlds worth inhabiting.

Featured work

Games. Art. Direction.

Smash Eat Grow cover image

VR Multiplayer Game / 2025

Smash Eat Grow

A VR multiplayer game where alien Smashers eat their way through fully destructible cities, grow in size, and turn chaos into the point.

Osato cover image

Immersive Art Installation / 2025

Osato

A VR recreation of Bay Area artist Maya Fuji's ancestral home, connecting heritage, memory, and unreal space.

The studio

Stubborn about presence.

Obstinate is a VR development and consulting studio located in the Bay Area, California. Founded by Storm Griffith in 2024, the studio brings new concepts to Mixed and Virtual Reality across games, artistic experiences, and consumer applications.

The work sits between cutting-edge technology and artistry: impactful projects, innovative development practices, and partnerships with industry veterans and newcomers alike.

Obstinate / adjective

1: stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course.

2: not easily subdued, remedied, or removed.

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VR games & applications

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Immersive art installations

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VR/XR project consultation

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Full-stack design & development

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Project partnerships & management

Storm Griffith

Founder / developer

Storm Griffith

Storm Griffith is a multi-disciplinary games developer and artist specializing in PC and mobile VR, practicing since 2014. Self-taught, he works across Unity, Unreal Engine, C#, technical systems, level design, 3D production, lighting, performance analysis, tuning, and game systems design.

Storm is also a public speaker, appearing in panels to discuss the arts, project retrospectives, and the future of immersive development.

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Appearances

Talks, panels, rooms.

  1. 2018 University of Washington, Seattle VR is Now
  2. 2018 Oculus Connect 5 Onward VR League World Finals
  3. 2020 Meta Connect 1 Onward!: Porting from PCVR to Quest
  4. 2022 Untitled @ Miami Art Week Making & Claiming Space
  5. 2023 Shack 15 Nexus Black Art Week
  6. 2025 Glass Rice Osato/Quiet Conversations
  7. 2026 Root Division Flourish

Inquiry?

Drop us a line.

For project inquiries, partnerships, or consulting, send a note with the goal, platform, timeline, and where you need support.

storm@obstinate.io