[Commlist] Fully or Part-Funded PhD Opportunity in Mixed Reality Storytelling

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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