Extended Reality (XR) Industry Survey

Catalog description

This is an interdisciplinary survey course that will expose students to various opportunities and applications in extended reality (XR), as well as provide diverse perspectives and novel approaches in XR with potential to solve complex problems. Augmented reality (AR), often referred to as mixed reality (MR), overlays digital content onto the real world and virtual reality (VR) submerges a viewer into a 360 virtual world. Extended reality is a term used to describe all of these immersive technologies (AR/MR/VR). VR and AR are being adopted widely across diverse fields such as health services, construction, real estate, entertainment, communications, manufacturing, and military training. Each week the course will introduce how XR is being adapted into many of these industries, as well as look at XR accessibility, storytelling, and how XR is pushing the boundaries of visual communication and imaging.