Virtual Reality Production

Description: This course focuses on career management skills needed to navigate the evolving workplace. Students will evaluate their skills, attitudes, and expectations within their chosen careers and explore emerging trends in the workplace. Students will refine their networking strategies and create marketing documents to position them for success. Mock interviews will provide the opportunity for practice, feedback, and reflection as students prepare for future interviews. Students will explore communication strategies that support workplace success and advancement. By the end of this course, students will have created a personalized career management plan.

• Hours: 28
• Credits: 2
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: $10.55

Description: Building extended realities requires realistic and believable environments. This course will build on previous knowledge of creating assets to help build these virtual worlds inside a game engine. Students will learn the importance of well-placed objects, particles, lights, and audio cues within an immersive environment.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: Prototyping is one of the most valuable tools for creating extended realities. Knowing that a design direction is solid before investing great effort, speeds up design validation in the creation of VR applications. Using existing best practices, students will learn how to create rapid prototypes to explore the promise of a design vision.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: One of the most challenging aspects of extended realities is creating realistic interactions that reflect human tendencies. In this course, further development of interfaces and user experience will be examined. Students will design and implement clear interactions within established guidelines. This course will explore human interaction as it pertains to alternate realities, including gestures, user input, and interfaces

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: End to end understanding, oversight, and managing of XR production through prototyping, testing, and delivery are essential to any project. Successful management depends on properly assessing the needs and challenges of a project and aligning key people for the tasks. Students will learn how to identify challenges, including costs and barriers, while managing XR projects. This course will also review current global market and ecosystems changing the way consumers interact with products.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: This course represents the culmination of the skills required to create a virtual experience. In a capstone project, students will construct their own extended reality experience with emphasis on conveying a narrative while considering presence, scene setting, and character development. The final project will demonstrate an interesting point of view and presence.

• Hours: 84
• Credits: 6
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: Exploration and experimentation of concepts gained from the other courses will be the focus of this lab. Students will create an immersive experience and implement best practices for development. The time and effort spent here will augment the Story II capstone and allow the student the freedom to expand on their personal learning paths and goals with instructor guidance and experience.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.