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Serious Games and Virtual Reality
Key Facts
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Programme Overview
Award
MSc Serious Games and Virtual Reality. All GSA degree programmes are validated by the University of Glasgow. Established in 1451, the University of Glasgow is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of leading UK research universities and a founder member of Universitas 21, an international grouping of universities dedicated to setting worldwide standards for higher education.
Duration
The programme is delivered over one year (full-time).
Indicative Additional Costs
Individual departments levy material fees as indicated on this page. You should budget for each year of your programme of study and should allow for costs over and above your fees and maintenance, particularly if expensive materials or projects are chosen.
Programme Leader
Dr Daniel Livingstone
Programme Team
Daisy Abbott
Dr Sandy Louchart
Brian Loranger
Fraser Dougan
Dr. Matthieu Poyade
Programme Overview
The MSc provides students with the skills to become key innovators in this exciting and rapidly developing area. The MSc offers students the transferable skills to design, develop and analyse games and simulations for a range of application areas and to conduct interdisciplinary research in the serious applications of games technology, particularly in healthcare, education and training.
As Virtual Reality and interaction technologies approach mainstream adoption, new opportunities for the application of immersive games technologies in engineering, medicine and in the home are putting games at the forefront of innovation worldwide.
At the School of Simulation and Visualisation we already have years of experience working on a wide range of serious games based projects for industrial, medical, heritage and education clients, building on our research and our expertise in 3D modeling and animation, motion capture technology and software development. We are pleased to be able to share our experience and expertise with this MSc.
Programme Structure
Stage 1
- Academic Skills for Masters Research
- Serious Games Design & Implementation
- 3D Modelling
- Interactive Application Development
- Serious Game Design & Research
Stage 2
- HCI and Virtual & Augmented Reality
- Serious Games Development
- Cross-school or SimVis Elective
Stage 3
- MSc Research Project
Entry Qualifications
This Masters is highly interdisciplinary in nature, and accepts students from a wide range of backgrouns. However, an Honours degree or equivalent professional practice in any of the following disciplines would be particularly beneficial:
- 3D art and design, product design, digital media, digital arts, 3D modelling and animation
- Computer science or computer graphics
- Computer games programming, game development, game design, game art, 3D modeling and animation, interactive systems
High calibre graduates from other disciplines may be considered if they are able to demonstrate an interest and ability in the field of serious games development or virtual reality.
IELTS 6.5 for overseas applicants for whom English is not their first language.
Contact
For more information please contact simvis@gsa.ac.uk
