Master of Arts - Virtual and Augmented Reality

The course has been structured to allow students the opportunity to gain a breadth of experience and also to work in-depth on a chosen specialism, with the aim of becoming a dynamic and agile graduate who is prepared for an evolving, creative-critical discipline, not tied to the limitations of any one particular technology or approach. Graduates from the course should be able to excel across the realisation and actualisation of live projects with collaborators across communities and industries, digital, cultural, creative and third sectors. The course will take a broad interdisciplinary interpretation of what University mean by immersive practices. Rather than focusing solely on headset immersive technologies, students can expect to work across disciplines, producing hybridised post-digital work that challenges the conventions of media disciplines and encourages them 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.