Local Game Developer Organizes Games Festival in Vermont Essex, VT – Vermont is having a game festival! The Champlain Games Festival is a single day event featuring locally made digital and tabletop games. The event is family friendly and will take place at the Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, Vermont on April 14th 2018. […]
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By: Alexis Dunn ’19 The Emergent Media Center (EMC) collaborated with ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain to create a fun and interactive STEM learning environment. ECHO visitors were able to interact/play with the different games from September 17th, 2017 to January 15th, 2018. The display was called “Innovation Playground” and Burlington’s makerspace, Generator also […]
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By: Alexis Dunn ’19 Starting March 19th, the EMC will be hosting a week-long interactive exhibit which will focus on two of the EMC’s core values: innovation and iteration. The exhibit will take place in the CCM Gallery Lounge on the Champlain College campus. We will be showcasing a wide range projects: both past and […]
Continue readingFebruary 06, 2018 | by Champlain News BURLINGTON, Vt. — A virtual reality simulator, being developed by Champlain College’s Emergent Media Center (EMC), renowned orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Bryan Huber (at left) and a team of entrepreneurs, could change the way doctors and surgeons learn and practice their skills. Dr. Huber and his partners at VARISES […]
Continue readingby Susa Breese ’21 How did a cardboard box make its way into a museum? By playing with the ordinary until it became extraordinary. Champlain College’s Emergent Media Center Sandbox Team brought its project, SpaceBox, to the Chicago Design Museum’s Hey! Play! exhibit this fall, where it will stay until February of 2018, running parallel […]
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by Susa Breese ’21 Working with virtual reality (VR) gives you the power to create entirely new environments and experiences and the ability to design every detail. Think of the opportunity to share this world you have created with others – how it would feel to design what they would see and smell? The EMC […]
Continue readingChamplain College’s Emergent Media Center (EMC) will showcase the combination of virtual reality (VR) that blends what you are seeing with environmental smells at the 25th Annual South End Art Hop on Friday, Sept. 8 on Pine Street. The Olfactory VR Project is an experiment with using smell in virtual reality that the EMC has been working on for the […]
Continue readingBy Kes Speelman In the last couple of blogs, I talked about the different technology the Emergent Media Center (EMC) uses and expands upon such as Virtual Reality (VR) and 3D printing. However, the EMC doesn’t only allow students to learn and practice skills in a technical aspect, it also allows students to gain valuable […]
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By Kes Speelman Imagine you’re in the future. You are in your garage, listening to some heavy metal while fixing up your jeep when all of the sudden, you accidentally rip the handle off the door. You try to reattach the handle, but the plastic on the handle itself is broken. You just have to […]
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By Kes Speelman I walked through the overly crowded walkway, staring at the colorful map of Cedar Point Amusement Park. A brisk breeze from Lake Erie made my hair dance. A tap on my shoulder. I looked up and my friend pointed to a stand. Virtual Reality (VR) Beta Testing. We hurried over and read […]
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