The Faculty of Arts and Humanties' Immersive Media Laboratory is an exciting new development which is being established as a core facility to support teaching, research and enterprise activities across art, architecture, design, the built environment and engineering subjects. The new facility will be open to testing new games, products, immersive experiences, educational innovations and medical simulations to name a few uses, and will welcome creative interdisciplinary collaborations from all sectors wishing to experiment with augmented (AR), mixed (MR) and virtual reality (VR).
The new labs will provide facilities for 3D scanning and motion capture as well as a black box space to experiment with VR, AR and MR technologies. The space offers an opportunity for experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration and will be intimately connected with the Digital Fabrication Lab next door.
The lab aspires not only to create greater connections across subject areas and to seek out innovation at the intersection of disciplines, but also to re-define the way in which we teach students and undertake research with a far greater emphasis on Industry involvement and engagement.