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[Commlist] Fully or Part-Funded PhD Opportunity in Mixed Reality Storytelling
Wed Jan 30 16:47:09 GMT 2019
PhD Exploring The Future of Mixed Reality for Immersive Entertainment
Immersive Technologies, such as AR, VR and MR, are continuing to
transform the way we can engage in entertainment experiences. From
television programmes and documentaries that you can literally walk
into, to cinematic experiences where you can become a part of the
narrative, to games that enable you to interact with your environment in
creative ways. The narrative possibilities for combining the real and
virtual are seemingly endless for media storytellers.
This blending of physical and digital worlds presents a number of
challenges for content makers. From thinking about the ways that we
might spatially engage with an interface or character, to using games
engines and data to dynamically trigger and render content, to creating
new opportunities and spaces to experience stories in location-based and
at home entertainment.
This practice-based PhD* will be exploring this future, working
between the Liverpool Screen School and the Department of Computing in
the Faculty of Engineering at LJMU and our network of industry
professionals across games, film, documentary and television.
You will be making and testing prototypes and speculative design ideas
and concepts. You should have an interest in the future of spatial
computing, mixed reality, augmented reality and immersive technology and
ideas for how it could transform documentary, fiction or other forms of
moving image.
Questions/Areas you might explore are:
· What are the future possibilities for the broadcast, film and
games industries in adopting mixed reality? And how might this be
appropriate for specific audiences
· What are the possibilities for narrative when it interacts with
you and your environment, in both at home and out of home contexts?
· What might mixed reality cinema or television entertainment look
like in the future?
· What are the User-Experience Design Challenges in developing
Spatial User Experiences?
You will have access to a wide variety of facilities including the new
Liverpool Immersive Experience Lab (LIVELab) and the content production
facilities and resources in the Screen School. This includes facilities
such as green screen film studios, mixed reality and augmented headsets,
volumetric creation tools, cameras, content creation software and games
engines, UX design tools and emotional measurement facilities.
There will also be opportunities to engage with our industry networks
across games, film, television and the growing immersive sector in the
region.
We are primarily looking for someone with strong conceptual and
realisation abilities and an interest in the future of Mixed Reality and
Augmented Reality. You should also have a background in either games
development, immersive experiences, animation, 3d modelling, film,
design or digital arts. Although we are open to interested candidates
from a range of other disciplines.
In the first instance, please send an expression of interest and a
brief outline of the area you would like to focus on to
(p.j.woodbridge /at/ ljmu.ac.uk) as soon as possible, and by 15th February 2019
at the latest. We will then look to working with you on the proposal
which needs to be submitted by Monday 4th March 2019.
*PhDs can either be fully funded scholarships including stipend and
fees, or fees only, they are offered on a competitive basis. For more
details about the terms please see this link
https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/research/phd-scholarships/phd-scholarship-application
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