Subject: New course on Augmented Reality offered next spring Description: IMDM 498A Augmented Reality Design for Creatives and Coders MW 3:30-5:50 Prerequisite: junior or senior standing This course will explore what exactly makes an AR experience and how AR offers innovative new ways to merge our digital and analog worlds. Students will learn how to use design tools like Unity, Blender and Vuforia, alongside digital performance and storytelling tools like live-streaming and branching narrative applications. The course will be taught by adjunct Jonathan David Martin, a director, actor, producer, and teaching artist focused on the creation and presentation of contemporary works of performance. Martin is the co-artistic director of Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative, a non-profit that creates original works for theater, VR/XR, and the web that combine socially relevant themes with an ambitious, multi-disciplinary approach to storytelling. Contact Person: Alyssa Neuner Contact Email: [log in to unmask] Website URL: https://obj.umiacs.umd.edu/immersivemediadesign/IM498A.pdf You received this email because you are subscribed to the Daily eNews for CMNS Students (CMNS-UNDERGRAD-NEWS) mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, simply send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message signoff CMNS-UNDERGRAD-NEWS in the body.