Projects

Immersive Installations builds interactive physical spaces with visuals, projections and set design. The team works with projection mapping, body tracking and audio reactivity to make art people can step into: an interactive light show, an audiovisual DJ set, artwork that leaves the screen.

The team provides materials and resources for members to make their own pieces, organizes and finds events, and runs workshops. Projects range from TouchDesigner and live coding in P5Live to physical set building with Blender.

The team has shown work at Maryland Day and at NextNOW Fest with the New Works Incubator, and is planning an independent showcase at NextNOW Fest in Fall 2027. Any level of TouchDesigner or coding experience is welcome.

The Niantic Spatial team is building an AR experience for smartphones with the Niantic Spatial SDK. The SDK anchors digital content to a real location, so the place itself is part of the experience.

The team is still choosing the idea. The goal is a useful experience that makes real use of location, and there is room to shape what it does and how people use it.

The work is in Unity and C#: learning the SDK, prototyping interactions, and building toward the direction the team picks. Unity or C# experience is required.

Team: Julian Bauer, Arindam Tripathi, Avelyne Tran, Dvij Raicha, Jason Chen, Jayden Jung

The Sony Spatial Reality Display shows 3D without glasses. It tracks the viewer's eyes and renders the scene for their exact position, so objects appear to float in front of the screen. Neural Lab's AirTouch adds gesture control from a standard webcam.

The team will build a living terrarium of Testudo inspired terrapins and other creatures. They react to being looked at, scatter or gather when you tap the glass, and can be picked up or fed with a gesture. Visitors scan a code and their phone becomes a feeder, so a group can play at once.

It is built to draw a crowd at Demo Day and Maryland Day and to be a strong portfolio piece: Unity and C#, Sony's Unity plugin, AirTouch, Blender for the creatures, and a small web remote on the club's existing backend. The display, an RTX PC and the webcam are in the XR Lab. This is a new team; the board runs it until a lead emerges.

Roles: Unity developers (2 to 3), 3D artist and animator, Interaction designer (gestures and eye contact), Web developer (phone feeder), Sound and lighting