Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Coast | Session 1,2 | Session 1,2 |
Unit description
Guides students through essential steps and processes in developing mixed reality immersive experience for desktop, mobile, and browser-based applications. Students will explore the state-of-the-art Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality technologies including Microsoft HoloLens, Windows Mixed Reality and Gear VR as well as the development environments, programming tools, and techniques.
Unit content
Topic 1: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality and Immersive Interaction
Topic 2: Environment for Immersive Interaction Development
Topic 3: Setup virtual world and its physics
Topic 4: Models, objects and interaction
Topic 5: Lightning and materials
Topic 6: Gesture and voice control
Topic 7: Stereo vision and immersive video contents
Topic 8: Interaction with physical world in augmented reality
Topic 9: Case study: design immersive experience with Windows Mixed Reality gear
Topic 10: Case study: design immersive experience with Microsoft HoloLens
Topic 11: Case study: design immersive experience with GearVR
Topic 12: Best practices in immersive interaction design
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discuss challenges and solutions in designing immersive interaction applications for different operating environments | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
| 2 | gather requirements and prepare the development environment for developing immersive interaction applications | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
| 3 | analyse and select appropriate immersive interaction technologies and platforms for maximising the user experience | Creativity | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 4 | design and develop immersive interaction applications using state-of-the-art Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies. | Creativity | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||
Prescribed texts
Session 1
- Parisi, T, 2015, Learning Virtual Reality: Developing Immersive Experiences and Applications for Desktop, Web, and Mobile.
Session 2
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Teaching and assessment
Gold Coast
| Teaching method |
| Lecture on-site 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Critical analysis of immersive interaction design | 20% |
| Assignment (Requirement engineering) | 30% |
| Assignment (Design and Implementation) | 50% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Commencing 2020 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 2
Fee paying courses
For POSTGRADUATE or UNDERGRADUATE full fee paying courses please check Domestic Postgraduate Fees OR Domestic Undergraduate Fees
International
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