Virtual and Augmented Reality Coventry University

Overview

The Virtual and Augmented Reality programme at Coventry University will take a broad interdisciplinary interpretation of what we mean by immersive practices.

Key facts

• Rather than focusing solely on headset immersive technologies, you can expect to work across disciplines, producing hybridised post-digital work that challenges the conventions of media disciplines and encourages you to operate at the forefront of the rapidly expanding immersive sector.

• The course builds upon extensive school expertise in the research and practice of immersive forms including performance/motion capture and networked performance, spatial, 360 and volumetric filmmaking, interactive media arts, installation, projection and site-specific working, immersive sound design and multichannel music composition, animation and games art, and play and games design (staff are subject to change).

Careers and opportunities

Upon successful completion of the course:

• you will be equipped with the creative critical skills to successfully realise a range of multisensory, interactive and immersive artistic products

• you will have worked independently and collaboratively to produce work in a range of professional contexts, including working to live briefs developed in partnership with industry

• you will have developed key transferable skills that enable you to operate at the forefront of the emerging immersive sector

• you may choose to progress into technical roles, but the course also supports those interested in developing agile skills as writers, performers, directors, producers, designers and facilitators of immersive work

• you should comprehend the interdisciplinary nature of immersive ways of working and the sector’s demand for flexible, ambitious, dynamic and self-aware practitioners.