Help make the world a better place by combining creativity, logic, and design in our Virtual Reality Development program - the first of its kind in the world. In our Virtual Reality program, students are pioneering the revolutionary medium of VR. Learn to create immersive experiences that inform, educate, entertain, and change the way we think about industries including healthcare, architecture, education, media, and more. Whether you create a safer work environment, champion social justice and reform, or help people recover from trauma, the VR medium will allow you to be a catalyst for positive change. Virtual Reality Development graduates will join a multibillion-dollar, rapidly growing industry. Make your impact on the world by reimagining and redefining the ways we intersect design, technology, critical thinking, and creativity. Virtual Reality Development
Design a better world in this immersive BFA program.
Wet Dog Corp. is a simulator-style game set within a megacorporation that pays you to wash dogs. It’s a simple task… until it’s not! VR students mentored by the award-winning team at Flight School created the game while learning the essentials of pre-production, asset creation, and game design. Ringling students in other majors, such as the Business of Art and Design, also collaborated on the project.
Ringling VR students and acclaimed Moffitt Cancer Center have teamed up to develop creative content for digital health care technologies, including virtual reality, animations for patient education, and training videos for physicians. Patients receiving radiation treatments, for example, will be able to immerse themselves in VR and experience what the treatments will be like before they happen. This is just one example of how virtual reality technology can improve the lives of others and Ringling students are helping to pave the way!
Ringling College alumni are already working in the industry, defining VR as the artist’s newest medium for sharing and shaping stories.
So, we thought it was time to step up and make it official.
Kal Athannassov
Baobab Studios
Computer Animation, ‘16
Bo (Bohdon) Sayre
Flight School
Computer Animation, ‘10
Nick Marten
HALVR
Creative Manager
Game Art, ‘17
The Collaboratory
We are proud to say that every Ringling student, regardless of major, is guaranteed the opportunity to gain professional work experience. Our Collaboratory Commitment pairs teams of Ringling students with local businesses to give students a taste of real-world projects, expectations, and deadlines. Facilitated by Collaboratory staff, students will meet with clients looking for creative, unconventional solutions to their branding and design challenges and execute the entire creative process of concepting, presenting, and building campaigns that meet their demands.
Internships
Work with our Career Services Center to prepare and guide you to finding an internship focused on your area of interest – we are here to help! With networks around the region and the country, we help you gain exposure to professional best practices and practical application of your technical skills. We are constantly connecting with industry professionals to find new, exciting opportunities to put your skills to work and get a taste of real-world work demands.
Critiques with Industry Giants
To further inform the work of our fourth year students, we bring in renowned, successful visiting artists to participate in milestone critiques. Coming from the top studios, brands, and businesses in the industry, our artists offer a relevant, real-world perspective to bring student thinking out of the classroom into the professional arena. This process provides our students with invaluable feedback from the best of the best in the field, which they can immediately apply to their current works in process.