Apr 18, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2022-23 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2022-23 [Archived Catalog]

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ECT 1700 - Foundations of Virtual Reality and Game Design


Introduction to the foundational concepts required to develop and design virtual reality, video games, and other emerging communication technologies that highlight concepts of human centered interaction. Students learn to communicate story, emotion, and ideas through the use of digital images and sound in a virtual environment utilizing the effects of area, color, motion, convergence and form–as well as time, space, proprioception, and way finding–to influence the end user.

Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to communicate story, emotion and idea within an emerging communication technology experience.
  • Students will be able to critique digital imagery within emerging communication technologies by considering the effects of area, color, motion, convergence and form on the end user.
  • Students will be able to utilize the workflow principles of emerging communication technologies via iterative and hierarchical problem-solving techniques.
  • Students will be able to apply various prototyping theories to communicate, influence, direct, entice and excite an end user of emerging communication technologies.



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