Games for Good: MDM Students Build Serious Games

This semester three MDM student projects are using games or gamified technology to teach healthy behavioral changes in response to three very different problems industry clients posed to them. The three teams: The Goal Diggers, Viva la Vida, and the Brain Bros—while given different problems and briefed by very different clients—all decided to solve their clients’ problems by building digital, gamified solutions.

Students Pitch Personalized Experiences at CBC Hackathon

The CBC hosted their annual hackathon at the beginning of February, which was focused around the theme of content personalization, with an aim at improving relationships with their audiences. Back in December, three teams from MDM Cohort 13 submitted their proposals and two were selected to participate in the hackathon.

MDM Students Create Ancient VR City with UBC Archeology

A team of MDM students are working to create an ancient VR city this semester. Working with UBC’s department of Archeology and KAMBE, the team has been tasked with creating a completely new type of archeological experience. By combining existing remote sensing technologies and geophysics with immersive technologies, the team wants to give users a sense of what it was like to live in Late Bronze Age Cyprus.

MDM Students Win Student UX Award at the Vancouver User Experience Awards

A team of MDM students won the student award at the Vancouver User Experience Awards last Thursday.

MDM Venture Internship Creates AR For Live Events

Cell phones at concerts and other live events are unavoidable, everyone uses them. Is there a way to leverage concert-goers’ cell phones to help enhance the event and give them access to more engaging experiences?

How Pre-MDM Prepares You To Become a Top Student in the MDM Program

The MDM program is unique in that, rather than focusing on hard skills like coding and design, the program focuses on soft skills such as collaboration, teamwork and leadership, and how to

Three MDM Student Cohorts Work Together To Develop VR Theater at SIGGRAPH

This past summer, Vancouver hosted SIGGRAPH, an annual computer graphics conference.

How We Managed an xR Prototyping Lab This Summer, Part 3

Improving a Game Prototype and Building an AR App for Set Designers

This semester, a team of MDM students