Full Sail wades into virtual reality coursework with new lab
"No one has spent money on the constant development side," said Armstrong, president and CEO of Engineering & Computer Simulations in Orlando. "Everyone is spending on hardware. That is what is going to change it: finding people to build the applications."
It's part of a $3 million space that combines two labs, one equipped with manufacturing tools as a sort of makerspace and another for the AR/VR program.
"There are going to be jobs out there that haven't even been created yet," said Rob Catto, Full Sail's director of game studies and simulation.
Cogswell College, which sits in California's Silicon Valley, introduced what Forbes called the first AR/VR studies certificate program in the U.S. this summer.
Professor Timothy Duncan said when the class was announced that virtual and augmented reality, though most common in gaming, would eventually "impact many industries across the globe."
"By having students learn these new areas now, they will position themselves as the next generation of technical and creative leaders within exciting new VR and AR frontiers," Duncan said in a news release.
"Educational institutions producing multi-disciplinary talent will play a major role in developing talent that will mature the technology and push it to greater heights," Civinskas said. "Lockheed Martin continues to partner with science, technology, engineering and math programs to help inspire future talent to address the next generation of challenges."
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