Virtual Reality Development
Creating immersive experiences.
Learn to combine creativity, logic, and design in our Virtual Reality BFA degree program – the first of its kind in the world.
“Onigami”
Eric Wang ’20
Design a better world with our immersive reality degree.
In our Virtual Reality program, students are pioneering the revolutionary medium of VR and expanding use of the metaverse. Learn to create an immersive reality that can 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 virtual reality degree 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 immersive reality, design, technology, critical thinking, and creativity.
Real Project Proof
Moffitt Cancer Center and Ringling College Bring VR to Cancer Patients
Ringling VR students and the acclaimed Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa teamed up in 2019 to develop creative content for digital healthcare technologies, including virtual reality, animations for patient education, and training videos for physicians. Patients receiving radiation treatments, for example, are now able to immerse themselves in VR and experience what the treatments will be like before they happen. Check out our Blog to learn more about this exciting intersection of creativity, technology, and design!
Ringling Students launch Wet Dog Corp. with Flight School at SXSW
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.
VR across industries
Virtual Reality Development graduates will find opportunities across many different industries. Here are a few examples of employers that are available for our grads:
EMPLOYERS
General Motors
Baobab Studios
STRIVR
ILMxLAB
Kinetic Vision
AECOM
Epic Games
Meta
Funomena
Immersive Health Group
3D Forensic
Mote Marine Labs
Vu Studios
Halon Entertainment
WIN Reality, Inc.
Microsoft
INDUSTRIES
Art and Design
Architecture
Automotive
Education + Training
Entertainment
Fitness
Gaming
Healthcare
Interior Design
Marketing
Military + Law Enforcement
Real Estate
Retail
Sports
Tourism and Travel
Wellness
Opportunities for students
INDEX
INDEX – Industry Experience at Ringling College – is our promise to provide every student the opportunity to have hands-on industry experience before graduation by offering real-world projects with real-world clients. This experiential education initiative allows students to learn how to turn passion into profession. INDEX opportunities are abundant and available through experiential learning in the classroom, the Design Center, Studio Labs, ART Network, the Makerspace, as client competitions and immersive experiences, volunteerism, internships, and elective courses.
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.
Industry Critiques
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.
