Expanded Realities

Whether games or medicine, school, industry or science: virtual reality and expanded realities in general are about to break into almost every area of life. They will soon become part of everyday life just like the smartphone today. Students are helping to shape this future in the international bachelor’s program Expanded Realities. They conceive, design and develop new worlds and applications and contribute to a completely new media language. They master the technological aspects of virtual, augmented or mixed reality as well as the creative and conceptual production of content and develop an understanding of the ethical and social dimensions of this new medium.

The international Bachelor of Arts "Expanded Realities" at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences offers an innovative, interdisciplinary and practice-oriented curriculum that integrates relevant artistic, technological, cultural and methodological dimensions of immersive media productions. The Expanded Realities program is taught in English by a team of experienced lecturers with an industry background. The faculty's resources include state-of-the-art software and hardware, a motion capturing studio, a game and virtual reality laboratory, fully equipped film and sound studios and a usability laboratory. During seven semesters, the project-based program qualifies students for careers in the growing areas of design, development, production and marketing of virtual, augmented and mixed reality applications, such as VR / AR designers, VR / AR developers, VR / AR producers.