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Immersive Media, B.S.C.

Explore tracks in design or development and harness the power of VR, AR, 3D, and beyond.

Top Game Design School

The Princeton Review named the University of Miami a top Game Design School in 2024.

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Pursue a track that aligns best with your post-graduation plans and career goals.

Labs & Spaces

Tinker, create, and collaborate in cutting-edge labs and spaces across campus.

Create, Innovate, and Design Immersive Experiences

With Designer and Developer tracks, the Immersive Media, B.S.C. program prepares students to excel in VR, AR, and immersive content creation. Students apply cutting-edge technology and design thinking to innovate across industries, from education to entertainment.

Discover some of the featured courses:

Intro to Creative Coding

This course will introduce students to the building blocks of creative coding and will enable them to learn to create and communicate dynamic content and interfaces that can be deployed across platforms. Students will learn programming fundamentals that can be translated into virtually all programming settings.

Immersive Storytelling

A hands-on course dedicated to designing, producing, and evaluating various virtual reality experiences. Through a wide selection of materials, including videos, 360° films, games, immersive experiences, articles, and presentations, students will develop a strong foundation for storytelling techniques, technologies, and best practices used across immersive media.

Building Virtual Worlds

The purpose of this course is to explore the construction of virtual environments. Students will learn the principles of constructing interactive 3D environments using a game engine. Students will be responsible for creating a world that can be interacted with on various platforms, including virtual and mixed reality.

Advanced 3D Character Design and Motion Capture

This course covers the 3D game art development pipeline from modeling, texturing, rigging and animation to motion capture, and special effects.

Introduction to Game Programming

Fundamental programming issues in game design: Software design; Version control; Basic graphics; GUI programming. Large-scale game project: Team development of a functional game; Graphics and GUI component; Networking component; Core game engine.

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Dr. Michelle Seelig

Interim Department Chair
mseelig@miami.edu | (305) 284-5211

Tracks

Designer
Developer

Related Minors

Interactive Media
Game Design
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Hear from Lorena Lopez, Program Coordinator for the Immersive Media major, as she describes the types of students this unique major attracts, and what career outcomes are possible after graduation.

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Emerging Media Lab

The Emerging Media Lab is designed to immerse students in the latest digital technologies and rapid prototyping equipment. The lab promotes making throughout the ideation, prototyping, and development phases, inspiring students to create rapid prototypes of games, AR, VR, and interactive installations.

Virtual Experience Simulation Lab

VESL is central to UMVerse initiatives, offering students interdisciplinary, hands-on learning opportunities and supplying researchers with software development resources. The innovation and experiential lab for immersive media projects supports student innovation and engagement in real-world projects while fostering an inclusive, interdisciplinary community.

New Experience Research & Design Lab

The NERDLab is an award-winning student-faculty cooperative driven by research, development, and an enthusiasm for social impact. It is an incubator for initiatives that collaborate locally, nationally, and globally, as well as integrates classic and novel techniques to produce projects that inspire and educate.

User Experience Lab

The main function of the UX Lab is to inform web, mobile, gaming, and software interface design based on human attitudes, emotions, and performance data. A variety of research methods collect and analyze findings, including focus groups, ethnography, expert reviews, usability testing, eye-tracking, and more.

course Spotlight

Building Virtual Worlds

Step into the future with Building Virtual Worlds! This course teaches you how to create interactive 3D environments using a game engine, allowing you to design worlds that users can explore on both virtual and mixed reality platforms.