University of the Arts London – Augmented & Virtual Reality Confabulation

As another Sunday unfolds it’s time for another entry in The VR Job Hub. As always, there are plenty of exciting job listings below for a number of disciplines working on immersive content at a number of companies. This week companies such as Magic Leap, nDreams and Oculus VR are looking for project managers, programmers and developers to name a few. That is plenty more in the list below though so there is something for everyone.

Every weekend VRFocus gathers together a number open position from across the virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) industry, in locations around the globe, to help make finding the ideal job easier. Below are a selection of roles that are currently accepting applications across a number of disciplines, all within departments and companies that focus on VR, AR and MR.

Location	Company	Role	Link
Sunnyvale, CA, US	Magic Leap	Senior Project Manager	Click Here to Apply
London, UK	University of the Arts London	Associate Lecturer MA Virtual Reality	Click Here to Apply
Liverpool, UK	LJMU	MR System Developer	Click Here to Apply
Farnborough, UK	nDreams	Android VR Programmer	Click Here to Apply
New York City, NY, US	Spatial Wireless	Unity 3D AR/VR Developer	Click Here to Apply
Menlo Park, CA, US	Oculus VR	Producer – Location Based Entertainment VR	Click Here to Apply
Menlo Park, CA, US	Oculus VR	Director of AR/VR Partnerships	Click Here to Apply
Menlo Park, CA, US	Oculus VR	AR/VR Legal Program Manager	Click Here to Apply
San Francisco, CA, US	Accenture	Senior VR/AR Developer	Click Here to Apply
San Francisco, CA, US	Accenture	AR/VR Developer	Click Here to Apply
Brighton, UK	Make Real	Immersive Learning Designer	Click Here to Apply
Brighton, UK	Make Real	Internal R&D Developer	Click Here to Apply

As always, if there was nothing in this week’s feature that was a good fit for you, you can always look at the previous edition of The VR Job Hub.

As always, if you are an employer looking for someone to fill an immersive technology related role – regardless of the industry – don’t forget you can send us the lowdown on the position and we’ll be sure to feature it in that following week’s feature. Details should be sent to myself (keva@vrfocus.com) and also Peter Graham (pgraham@vrfocus.com).

Check back with VRFocus next Sunday at the usual time of 3PM (UK) for another selection of jobs from around the industry.

With virtual reality (VR) growing every day it was only a matter of time until more educational institutes began to offer recognised courses for students to enroll on and learn the growing industry. In the case of the University of the Arts London, they are in the process of setting up both BA and MA degrees in the VR field which will offer students all the skills they need to learn and master the technology, ready to enter the industry. VRFocus’ Nina Salomons sat down with Dan Bartlett, Program Director for Moving Images and Digital Arts, University of the Arts London to discuss this in more detail.

University of the arts London

“So art University of the arts London, London’s college of communication campus, we are developing BA and MA degrees specifically for virtual reality technical studies.” Barlett explains: “It’s recognition of what we are already doing, VR projects are popping up all over London, we’ve got really well established BA and MA games and animation courses and film courses, and we were seeing VR projects popping up all over the place, across all years of the courses so we thought ‘Maybe we need to recognize this’ and give people in London and in Europe an opportunity to train in the field.”

The importance of ensuring the emerging industry has a skilled workforce in the coming years will be key to it’s growing success. By facilitating the discovery and learning of technologies such as VR, University of the Arts London is helping to success the future of the industry by proving the skills and knowledge needed to cultivate new experiences and content. Courses won’t start until next year in 2019, and as Bartlett explains further, there will be room for any and all interested in VR.

“So, the BA in virtual reality launches in 2019 and it’s an opportunity to come at it from lots of different angles so if their interested in games design in virtual reality then we work with things like Maya and Unity to creative interactive, immersive experiences. If their interested in film making we’ve got our own live television and green screen studios but there’ll be using 360 cameras and depth cameras in order to create 3D, 360, immersive narrative sequences and the same for animation as well but we’re bringing it into virtual reality to create really immersive, narrative lead content.”

You can see the full interview below in which Bartlett explains in great details the plans that University of the Arts London has for the courses and how it will allow students to explore new opportunities for creative applications of VR. VRFocus will be sure to bring you all the latest on the courses in the future, along with all things VR, so stay tuned for more.

Category: University of the Arts London

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