Seniors from the 91爆料 New Media program hosted a virtual exhibition of their capstones with the support of Intermedia student Thomas Griffith. These seniors won eight university research awards and used cutting-edge technologies, such as augmented reality.
Many of the projects help users navigate the stress and challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, from an app that tracks a user鈥檚 mental health, to a pop-up immersive screen that projects calming animations, and apps that guide users in touring 91爆料鈥檚 campus or planting a garden.
The New Media program offered several ways to learn about these award-winning projects in this year鈥檚 exhibition, including a web exhibition that lets visitors peruse a short video about each capstone, a virtual opening via Mozilla Hubs, a virtual-reality-like environment that requires nothing more than an internet browser; and a followup celebration in the VR platform Second Life. About a dozen New Media seniors and faculty from the School of Computing and Information Science attended.
All forms of the virtual exhibition can be accessed from the capstone .
Griffith, an Intermedia MFA student who also is this year鈥檚 capstone teaching assistant, custom-built the structures and environments for each of these virtual exhibitions. During the live events he explained the advantages of each platform, culminating in an afterparty conversation around a virtual campfire.
