Virtual and Augmented Reality MA

This course aims to help develop the creative, critical and technical skills required for practitioners to develop, craft, perform, co-create and share immersive arts experiences.

The course will explore the use of a range of immersive techniques and technologies in contemporary creative practice including but not limited to:

• Headset Technologies: Virtual Reality (VR) / Augmented Reality (AR) / Mixed Reality (MR)
• Narrative Forms: Interactive Storytelling / Hypertext / Choose your own adventure
• Play: Role Playing Games / Escape Rooms / Street Games
• Performance: Immersive Theatre / Performance Capture / Digital Dance
• Leisure: Theme parks / Outdoor and “Secret” Cinema / Heritage Settings
• Sonic experiences: Multichannel Audio / ASMR / Spatial Composition
• Site-responsive Working: Projection Mapping / Real-time Mobile Technologies / 5G and IoT4

Applicants to this Master’s degree should normally possess a good honours degree (2:1 or equivalent) in a relevant subject. If the degree is in an unrelated subject, applicants need to demonstrate appropriate industry knowledge and experience in their application documentation.

Each applicant will be required to include a short statement regarding their interest in studying on the Virtual and Augmented Reality MA course at Coventry University (300-500 words) and are invited to include a link to an online portfolio in order that the course team can get to know their practice. All applicants will be offered a videoconferencing conversation as part of the application where they will have the opportunity to meet with a member of the course team and ask questions about the programme of study.

Upon successful completion of the course, you will be equipped with:

• The creative critical skills to successfully realise a range of multisensory, interactive and immersive artistic products.
• You will have worked independently and collaboratively to produce work in a range of professional contexts, including working to live briefs developed in partnership with industry.
• Graduates will have developed key transferable skills that enable them to operate at the forefront of the emerging immersive sector.
• Some may choose to progress into technical roles, but the course also supports those interested in developing agile skills as writers, performers, directors, producers, designers and facilitators of immersive work.
• Most importantly, the course will emphasise the interdisciplinary nature of immersive ways of working and the sector’s demand for flexible, ambitious, dynamic and self-aware practitioners.