Champlain 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 […]
Continue readingBy Kes Speelman “If there is someone who thinks they might have a project that would be a good fit for the EMC team, then I’ll vet that project to see if we would be able to partner, to see if we’re aligned as far as budgets, timelines and deliverables go. And [I] also make […]
Continue readingBy Kes Speelman Human beings are naturally social creatures. We have a biological need to socialize that has enabled mankind to create hundreds of languages and dozens of mediums to communicate with. We can talk directly, write notes, post on social media, create videos, etc. And we keep making more! With so many different ways […]
Continue readingBy Kes Speelman As the last post mentioned, there are three big concepts that the new students believe the EMC encompasses: collaboration, openness and experiential learning. The EMC hires students to explore new technologies and work on real life projects. Especially when it comes to trying to promote social change. One of our latest […]
Continue readingSpaceBox was designed and constructed by an Emergent Media Center (EMC) team of Champlain students mentored by Professor Ken Howell and Terry Sehr, MFA alumni and Faculty Advisor. SpaceBox is meant to bring childhood wonder to life, a magical time when we make believe, taking ourselves on any adventure we imagine. Using an ordinary cardboard […]
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The Champlain College Emergent Media Center’s Sandbox team has been selected to showcase their SpaceBox project for alt.ctrl.GDC 2017!!! The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the world’s largest professional game industry event with over 27,000 attendees. alt.ctrl.GDC is one of GDC’s most acclaimed interactive spaces, an on-site showcase of alternative control schemes and interactions in […]
Continue readingFormer Emergent Media Center employee, Jason Rauck ’13 stopped by the Emergent Media Center and took some time to chat with us about his time at the EMC. The EMC has changed a lot over the last ten years. What’s it like when you walk through here and see how it’s grown? The consistency really […]
Continue readingFormer Emergent Media Center employee, Grant Parker ’13 stopped by the Emergent Media Center and took some time to chat with us about his time at the EMC. How did your experience here translate into the professional world after graduation? One of the nice things that Champlain does is working in teams. You’re working in […]
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