Digital innovations

Research in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business is underpinned with digital innovation
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3D printer, digital fabrication laboratory

Digital Fabrication Laboratory

Advanced digital fabrication resources to support design ideation, prototyping and product development.

Our new Digital Fabrication Laboratory is established as a core facility supporting research, enterprise and academic development in architecture, design and engineering. Through the use of cutting-edge technologies, the laboratory enables new solutions to close the gaps between digital media and physical production processes, forcing a step change in the way we design, make and build.

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Immersive Media Laboratory

Advanced digital, immersive visualisation resources to support creative ideation, prototyping and product development.

The Immersive Media Laboratory provides facilities for 3D scanning and motion capture as well as a black box space to experiment with augmented (AR), mixed (MR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies. The space offers an opportunity for experimentation and interdisciplinary collaboration and is open to testing new games, products, immersive experiences, educational innovations and medical simulations to name a few uses. We welcome creative interdisciplinary collaborations from all sectors wishing to experiment with AR, MR and VR.

Discover our Digital Fabrication and Immersive Media Laboratories (DFIML)

Virtual Reality / Immersive Media

Research at the cutting edge of digital innovation

Inside i-DAT's Tate Modern installation This Is Where We Are (TIWWA) - an immersive and interactive algorithmic sculpture fuelled by the data we collectively generate. i-DAT
 An Open Research Lab for playful experimentation with creative technology. We co-create and share technological prototypes and practices, that push and challenge the boundaries of digital arts and creative media practice.

ICCMR Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR)
 Cutting-edge research in music technology and creativity. Research expertise ranges from musicology and composition, to biomedical applications of music and development of new technologies for musical creativity

Transtecnology Transtechnology research
 A transdisciplinary research group with the objective of understanding science and technology as a manifestation of a range of human desires and cultural imperatives

Holding a tablet in Plymouth to view virtual information. Smart cities / smart urban futures. Smart Cities Working Group (SCWG)
 SCWG comprises a mix of private, public and third sector stakeholders with an interest in the Smart Cities agenda and an appetite for taking projects forward