Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Mixed Reality

Credit Points: 12.00


Course Coordinator: Allison Jing

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925

Course Coordinator Email: allison.jing@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: City campus


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Enforced Pre-Requisite Courses:
Successful completion of the following course/s:

  • COSC3119 Algorithms and Analysis (Course ID: 056579) or
  • COSC1285/2203 Algorithms and Analysis (Course ID: 004302).

Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course. 

For your information go to RMIT Course Requisites webpage. 

 

If you have completed prior studies at RMIT or another institution that developed the skills and knowledge covered in the above course/s you may be eligible to apply for credit transfer. Alternatively, if you have prior relevant work experience that developed the skills and knowledge covered in the above course/s you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning.

Please follow the link for further information on how to apply for credit for prior study or experience.


Course Description

Mixed Reality is intended to provide you with an opportunity to gain further knowledge and abilities for a career in the game or the AR/VR industries. Insights into the process of programming and designing mixed reality experiences, will primarily be via a ‘student centred’ learning approach based on project design and implementation along with presentations and reports. A multi-part studio-based project will provide you with an environment in which you will learn core aspects of building mixed reality games and applications.

Upon completion of the course, you will have gained problem solving skills, project management skills, an understanding of core knowledge areas of mixed reality design and programming, as well as furthering familiarity with tools and tool chains for designing and developing those. You will be required to brainstorm, implement and refine novel mixed reality experiences, and to document and present your work in this area repeatedly.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Program Learning Outcomes

This course is an option course so it is not required to contribute to the development of program learning outcomes (PLOs) though it may assist your achievement of several PLOs.

For more information on the program learning outcomes for your program, please see the program guide.


Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Apply fundamental knowledge to design mixed reality experiences and implement them in the form of game play using a variety of game engines and tools.
  2. Analyse existing mixed reality to detect flaws or areas for improvement.
  3. Critique specific design and implementation choices in yours or other developers work.
  4. Work in project teams in a self-directed manner.
  5. Find and assess suitable tools and resources for mixed reality programming.


Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities. The course takes a studio-based approach studio-based, with several opportunities to use, implement, or extend a game engine along with several game tools. Problem solving skills will be developed in a group discovery experience working in cooperation with a team of peers on the design, implementation and analysis of mixed reality experiences. You will learn creating, implementing, and refining new and/or existing mixed reality experiences using a choice of game tools and engines along with implementing game play.

You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course.


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course.

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.


Overview of Assessment

Note: This course has no hurdle requirements.

Assessment tasks

Assessment Task 1:  MR experience prototype
Weighting: 20%
This assessment task supports CLOs 4, 5.

Assessment Task 2: Preliminary implementation of an MR experience
Weighting: 35%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 4.

Assessment Task 3: Final MR experience implementation and release
Weighting: 45%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 3 & 4.

If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.