The course 'Immersive Design' is created by Anne Marleen Olthof and part of the minor Virtual Reality Experience at the University of Applied Sciences Amsterdam. Since 2016, our educational team has created a demand-driven educational program, wherein students have been creating and developing VR & AR projects for KLM, UNICEF, Bartiméus, G-STAR, Mode Muze, Vlisco, Spaarne Gasthuis Hoofddorp, Museum Volkenkunde Leiden. We have successfully cooperated with Hypercraft, an exclusive virtual fashion minor at the international critically acclaimed Amsterdam Fashion Institute (AMFI).
This course will provide expertise in designing for alternate reality, such as virtual/augmented and mixed reality. I make use of Narration Techniques & Interactive Storytelling and after finishing this course students will have a firm base in User Experience Design and Interaction Design for 3D User Interfaces VR/AR/MR. Our team intends to work by means of Research through Design and make Reflective Thinking happen via dialogue & rationale.
My vision is formed on the premise that future designers will be Immersive Designers, who untie themselves from any device and will place the content in the world itself, eliminating the abstraction between the content and its users as much as possible. Students learn how to create multi-sensory experiences that fully captivate the user's potential to feel & sense, touch & taste, see & move, to listen & to speak, without losing grip on the user's needs for understanding and guidance throughout the experience. Students who take this course will become junior experts in Interaction Design for 3D User Interfaces.
Github is used in order to provide the Body of Knowledge to students. Via 25 chapters students can get informed about all aspects that are related to designing for 3-Dimensional Digital Experiences. Students choose their own learning track and challenges and use Github to cooperate on sample projects, experiments and their final team project.
At this moment, the course is not open. Some chapters are available below, in order to get an impression.
Who framed Roger Rabbit? Living in Xperience Reality XR (VR/AR/MR)
Getting Started: The History of VR
Getting Started: 52 definitions of Virtual Reality
Getting Started: Terminology VR
Getting Started: PLAY! Games in STEAM VR
Getting Started: SteamVR, Github, Timeline Unity, Cinemachine Unity, Arduino, VRTK toolkit, A-frame
Chapter I. Narrative Techniques & Interactive Storytelling
Chapter II. Social Space in VR
Chapter III. Inspirational Speakers Social Spaces
Chapter IV. Virtual Identity & Body Ownership
Chapter V. Design Principles and Guidelines
Chapter VI. Human Factors: Perception, Cognition, Attention
Chapter VII. Gamefulness & Playfulness
Chapter VIII. Embodied Interaction & Flow States
Chapter IX. The Senses, Affective Intensity & Emotional Immersion
Chapter X. Hardware Technology & Health Adverse Issues
Chapter XI. Head Mounted Displays & Controllers
Chapter XII. Prototyping by YOU
Chapter XIII. Tutorial Design & 3D Design Patterns
Chapter XIV. Navigation
Chapter XV. Wayfinding
Chapter XVI. System Control
Chapter XVII. Selection & Manipulation
Chapter XVIII. Feedback
Chapter XIX. Movement, Motion Capture & Animation
Chapter XX. Audio & Sound
Chapter XXI. Testing in XR: Immersion & Presence
Software: Unity, Unreal, Maya, Clo3D, Mixamo, Marvelous, DAZ Studio, Make Human, Adobe Fuse, Vuforia, FMOD
Hardware: HTC Vive, Oculus, Leap Motion, Hololens, Android AR, Gear VR, Perception Neuron (mocap), IKinema, Manus VR, Fove eye tracking.
- Course: Immersive Design XR (VR/AR/MR) by Anne Marleen Olthof: [email protected] //
- Course lecturer: Anne Marleen Olthof
- Minor: Virtual Reality Experience
- Minor coordinator: Lisette Vonk: [email protected]
- Credit: 30 ECTS
- Academic year: 2018 - 2019
- Period: Semester 1 & 2
- Programme: Faculty Digital Media and Creative Industries (full time bachelor)
- Language: English instructions and resources
- Entry requirements: N/A
- 3D Modeling & Game Engines by Freark Broersma: [email protected]
- Head-Mounted Displays & Tracking by Jurriaan Mulder: [email protected]
- Virtual Fashion (Clo3D) by Ineke Siersema: [email protected]
The course 'Immersive Design' is part of the minor Virtual Reality Experience at the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
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