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Immersive Media Overview
Explore the Immersive Media Degree:
Building a Virtual Reality
Chatham University's immersive media program is dedicated to building immersive experiences for virtual and augmented reality that are compelling, believable, and desired by employers in a range of industries.
Access to Cutting-Edge Technology
IMM students have access to cutting edge virtual reality and augmented reality hardware, including their own Oculus Quest 3 headset, which is theirs to keep after the program ends. The lab contains a variety of VR and AR devices from Sony, HP, Oculus, HTC, Valve, Magic Leap, Microsoft, Tilt Five, and others. Core software programs include real-time 3D game engines Unity and Unreal Engine, and students also learn Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender & Maya, a variety of creative 3D and audio tools, and a variety of programming languages including C#, C++, Python, and more.
Studio Space
Renovated in 2021, the immersive media facilities were designed to meet the technological and social needs of the department. The studio is equipped with state-of-the art immersive technology including augmented reality devices, virtual reality headsets, and high-performance production computers. Full of modular furniture and whiteboards, the reconfigurable studio space is the center of our studio culture.
Immersive Media
The World-Builders
The program teaches a concrete set of skills, such using computer programming to create a 3D landscape, but the aptitudes that it develops are broad and would be welcomed by any employer: solving problems, thinking logically, working collaboratively.
A Glimpse Inside Christopher Brinkley’s NASA Internship
Christopher Brinkley will be one of the first students to graduate from Chatham’s Immersive Media program, an interdisciplinary learning experience that equips students with knowledge of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality technology, architecture, 3D modeling, game development and more. This spring, Chris got to put his learning expertise to good use by completing an internship with NASA!
Student Profile: Carson Custer ‘23
Carson Custer was only a first-year student in the Immersive Media program when his work started attracting attention outside of Chatham.
Immersive Media Program Brings the Past to the Present
As a part of the program’s Serious Play course, students’ projects varied from putting the user into historic photographs to projecting holographic-like artifacts for users to examine. Students collaborated with Chatham Archivist, Molly Tighe to create experiences that help make the archives more accessible.