The Creative Director and Co-founder of Spice VR and Spherie, Rico Chibac, has been active as a filmmaker, artist and musician for more than 22 years. He created contributions for Arte, MTV, WDR and commercials for various brands. His visuals have been featured on a variety of global media platforms from interactive applications and websites to advertising campaigns, magazine editorials, books, covers, commercials, music video, and films. He is also a music producer, producing and distributing several albums and mixtapes under the artist names Kojiro and Taube.

After finishing his diploma with an award in fine arts and a focus on experimental film, he was chosen by the video artist Michael Brynntrup to become his Meisterschüler at the University of Fine Arts Brunswick (HBK), which he also graduated with distinction. His masterpiece graduation film, the 360°movie Overstay, broke ground and was celebrated at several events and exhibitions in Europe and the US. While studying, he founded along with his brother, Nicolas Chibac, the film and VR production company SpiceVR (Nico&Rico). Together, they develop many projects for high-profile clients including Scooter for Kontor, Naked Elephant for EMI/Virgin, the Robin Schulz 360° experience for Warner Music, TUI Travels: Magic Life VR for bakery films and the European 360° marketing campaign Germany by Bike for the DZT (supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy), with over 3 million views on Youtube.

He won awards such as the German Rock and Pop Prize 2008, the Vegas VR Fest Award 2019, was 2 times nominated for the International Young Filmmaker Award and won several trophies with his companies, and was nominated with Spherie for the Innovation Award at South by Southwest Festival 2016 (SXSW).