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The Immersive Media Lab is the central hub for Extended Reality (XR) at CAMD. Encompassing Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR), and 360-degree video creation.
Students are able to fully immersive themselves in other worlds with high performance VR and MR headsets. Users develop and test games, explore new avenues for storytelling and journalism, leverage 3D scanners for photogrammetry, and engage in grant funded XR research.
Resources
The Experiential Technologies Lab and User Testing Environment includes a one-way mirror, camera setups, and high-end computing. The lab is used in software and interface development, game testing, and integration of biometrics tools including eye-tracking and wearable sensors.
Applications
Applications include designing, developing, and integrating new forms of software, user interfaces, and integration of perceptual, social, biometric, and environmental data.
Current Work
Current work includes development and testing of software and games, and integration of biometric and environmental data including eye-tracking and wearable sensors.
Resources
The Physical Computing Lab offers IDEs, microcontrollers, and circuit prototyping tools and components, including a wide array of input and output devices. The lab also includes basic tools for fabrication and testing, and soldering workstations for perfboard and PCB fabrication.
Applications
Applications and current work include investigations into human-computer interaction- particularly development of UIs- graphic, interactive, auditory, and tangible. Other areas of interest include integration of physical data in biological and environmental applications, and material explorations connected to digital fabrication processes and integration of innovative materials.
The Interdisciplinary Research Lab provides space for research across the college, supporting the Dean’s Research Fellows, who are engaged in research and scholarship in the areas of design, data storytelling, and critical creative practice.
