Designing for Extended Realities is an startup accelerator-style design course that equips students with the skills and knowledge to design and develop extended reality (XR) products in a critical, intentional, and human-centered way. Students will work in multidisciplinary teams to explore a single XR design project throughout the quarter that culminates in a public XR exhibition. Through the practice of design thinking and prototyping, students will explore and experiment with state-of-the-art technologies like virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality. Project teams will receive mentorship guidance from world-class XR experts from Meta, Unity, IDEO, Snap, and more, including product designers, product managers, engineers, and VCs. Entrepreneurial, design, technical, or subject-matter interest highly encouraged. XR devices and software licenses will be provided to student groups. Final course enrollment codes is by granted application approval and attendance in the first week. APPLICATION at https://forms.gle/U4qE34SY5qVrEM4JA. Group applications encouraged.
3-4 units · Letter (ABCD/NP)
Designing for Extended Realities is an startup accelerator-style design course that equips students with the skills and knowledge to design and develop extended reality (XR) products in a critical, intentional, and human-centered way. Students will work in multidisciplinary teams to explore a single XR design project throughout the quarter that culminates in a public XR exhibition. Through the practice of design thinking and prototyping, students will explore and experiment with state-of-the-art technologies like virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality. Project teams will receive mentorship guidance from world-class XR experts from Meta, Unity, IDEO, Snap, and more, including product designers, product managers, engineers, and VCs. Entrepreneurial, design, technical, or subject-matter interest highly encouraged. XR devices and software licenses will be provided to student groups. Final course enrollment codes is by granted application approval and attendance in the first week. APPLICATION at https://forms.gle/U4qE34SY5qVrEM4JA. Group applications encouraged.