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XR design skills lab opens in London

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City University of London and ARuVR have created an extended reality design skills lab in the heart of London: Enhances undergraduate programmes and courses to develop XR project designers in industry.

XR design skills lab opens at City University of London
XR design skills lab opens at City University of London 

City University of London and ARuVR have created an extended reality design skills lab in the heart of London.

The facility allows XR designers to create AR and VR resources for the University's undergraduate programmes, includes a motion capture studio to help build realistic, immersive XR resources, provides courses for XR designers and project managers in industry and uses the ARuVR XR content authoring platform. 

The centre opened in January and the team from City University of London and ARuVR invited Learning News along to find out all about it. Features, from the University's School of Science and Technology, Executive Dean, Rajkumar Roy and Senior Workshop Technician, Keith Pamment, and from ARuVR, CEO and Founder, Frank Furnari.

Rajkumar Roy, School of Science & Technology, City University of London:

“To take this technology and enhance education, that's my first priority.”

“My vision is to democratise immersive technology, that's what this centre is about.”

Frank Furnari, CEO & Founder, ARuVR: 

“It's important not only to teach how to build this technology and experiences using AR and VR, but also how to design and manage XR rollouts at scale.”

Programme links

About the centre: Augmented and Virtual Reality Learning Centre
Training course for industry: Introduction to Extended Reality Design and Production
ARuVR XR content authoring platform