Augmenting Shanghai

Catalog description

As an emerging technology, Augmented Reality offers designers new possibilities to create immersive experiences that blend digital and physical worlds. Through this course, students will learn how to create 3D models and animations with Gravity Sketch, an immersive 3D creation tool, and Unity, a widely used game engine for AR application development. They will explore how to mount these 3D animations to real places on the NYU Shanghai campus, and design interactive experiences that augment physical space. In addition to learning the technical aspects of AR design, students will also learn the design perspective of dualistic space, a new design field for future human life. Dualistic space explores the relationship between physical and virtual spaces, and how they can interact and coexist to create new experiences and possibilities.