Taking a break from reality and stepping into a world where you have a little more control over things probably sounds pretty good right now. Tech companies, like the one formerly known as Facebook, think […]
Tag: digital media
Q+A: Are NFTs Changing the Business of Art, or Making a Parody of It?
Whether they are just the latest iteration of cryptocurrency speculation, or a revolutionary financial development for creators, nonfungible tokens (NFTs) have undeniably spurred a great deal of conversation about the nature and possibility of a new currency system.
Q+A: Take ‘Me’ Out to the Ballgame — How FOX Sports Is Filling Stadiums with Virtual Fans During the Pandemic
Baseball is back, but COVID-19 is keeping fans safely at home. To help television audiences adjust to the new normal during the pandemic-shortened baseball season, some teams are seating cardboard cutouts of their fans, for […]
Haunting a House: Drexel’s VR Experts Help to Raise the Dead at Philly’s Newest Halloween Attraction
This month people who love getting scared will have another option for getting their frights in Philadelphia. With some help from researchers and students in Westphal College’s Immersive Research Lab, renowned performance art and dance […]
Sharing Means Winning in Drexel Students’ Video Game
The latest student-designed video game out of Drexel’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio is encouraging players to get close — really close — while racing through an obstacle course virtually and physically linked to their teammate. In […]
Biomedical Researchers Design Mobile Game for Teaching About HIV
CD4 HunterTM, a new educational mobile game developed by Drexel University College of Medicine researchers that turns players into microbes, is now available to download from iTunes and the Google Play app store. In the […]
Q+A: Don’t Blink! Ang Lee’s New Movie Packs in Detail by Dialing up the Frame Rate
This week the director who gave audiences acclaimed, visual masterpieces “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Life of Pi,” is asking viewers to trust him as he pushes beyond the limits of our collective visual comfort […]
Q+A: Survival of the Coolest? The Struggle to Get Noticed in the Marketplace of Games
As a small game development company or startup, it’s hard to get noticed in a sea of hundreds of thousands of new games each year. This is one of the constant challenges for students embarking […]
Visiting a Real Jurassic Park — In Virtual Reality
Armed with 3D scans of the most complete supermassive dinosaur skeleton ever unearthed, and the latest paleontology and biomechanical research, a graduate student in Westphal College’s Digital Media program, is bringing a giant dinosaur to […]
Student-Designed Game Squeezes Out Competition at Intel Game Developers Conference
While the latest edition of the Princeton Review’s annual rankings once again slotted Drexel among the top 10 schools for game design, a group of Dragons set the program apart with a game that edged […]