The virtual and augmented reality experience creator specialises in designing digital experiences that are used for tourism, games and entertainment, marketing, and healthcare purposes.
Virtual reality experience creators build entirely immersive simulations of real or imagined places, including multi-sensory tourism experiences anywhere on earth or beyond, or immersive movies and games.
Augmented reality experience creators build interactive overlays over the real world, to add to what is there. It is used in numerous places, such as to create retail pop-up stores, virtual changing rooms (where you can try on clothes without getting undressed), interactive museum exhibits, visualisations of tumours in surgery, and virtual navigation beacons for travel.
Virtual and augmented reality experience creators need to have strong visual communication skills. They need to have coding skills and be able to use VR/AR engines. They will be familiar with principles of user interface and user experience design, and be comfortable with 360 degree cinematography. Depending on the focus of their work, they will need to collaborate with games designers, film script writers, marketing specialists, medical professionals, and museum curators (amongst others).