An exciting new partnership between the University of Adelaide and Light Adelaide, the city’s new home for creativity and hospitality, will see the boundaries of immersive reality stretched beyond the imagination.
Students and researchers from the University’s Immersive Media program will work with Light Adelaide at the cutting-edge of immersive technology to build the interactive and visual experiences of the future.
“Immersive technology is rapidly evolving to create an entirely new category of experience. Light Adelaide, with its innovative LED screen array, has the potential to revolutionize the way we create and interact with digital content,” says the University of Adelaide’s Steve Cook, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Realities Extended Business Unit in the School of Humanities.
“Collaborative interactive art, virtual production, live hybrid performances, interaction design research, and product/asset visualization, are just some of the areas we plan to experiment with in our partnership.
“Previously, students have not had access to create public-facing dynamic experiences using this kind of technology – but now we have it right here in the Adelaide CBD.”
“Immersive technology is rapidly evolving to create an entirely new category of experience. Light Adelaide, with its innovative LED screen array, has the potential to revolutionize the way we create and interact with digital content.” Steve Cook, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Realities Extended Business Unit in the School of Humanities, the University of Adelaide.
Nick Dunstone, co-founder of Light Adelaide, is excited about what the partnership could create.
“Sophie and I started Light Adelaide to give Australia’s creative community access to this new wave of technology – which we see as a key part of the future of creative expression and storytelling,” says Mr Dunstone.
“Dynamic immersive spaces provide extraordinary opportunities for artists to perform in any virtual environment- be it a real or imagined space. The LED walls “drop away” to become extensions of the physical room – and ultimately provide a new dimension to engage audiences and tell stories.
“We saw an immediate fit for the work being produced by the talent at the University of Adelaide, which will demonstrate what this kind of technology is capable of.”
Many of the University’s recent graduates from the immersive media technology program are being snapped up by local employers for their world-class software and design skills.
“We have established our own Realities Extended Business Unit at the University because there is an insatiable demand for these kind of skills, not just in Adelaide but around the country and abroad,” said Mr Cook.