Hospital Patient Recovers on Beach with the Aid of Virtual Reality – Graphic Designer Uses Virtual Relaxation Video to Treat Pain and Anxiety After 4th Leg Operation. (2015). Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week.

Did you know that virtual reality can help people who are sick in hospital feel better and calmer? This is because virtual reality can transport people from scary situations such as being in a hospital to someone calm such as to the beach without moving. This is the power of virtual reality and it has not been fully tapped into. This technology offers a way of escapism for people and a way to experience something. This is all possible and we do not have to move. Would you want to design this? You can, this is what a Virtual Reality Designer does.

A Virtual Reality Designer is someone who designs virtual reality for us to use. They think creatively and outside the box. The fast and rapid changes in technology means Virtual Reality Designers need to be on the ball and keeping up with the change in technology to deliver relevant and up to date virtual reality.

How do you become a Virtual Reality Designer? With the demand on virtual reality will mean courses are available at University. Currently, there is no course in Australia in Virtual Reality Design. However, you can upskill yourself in computer software, computer technology, IT (Information technology), mathematics, physics and computer software language.

Career Pathways and Study Options

Check out the career pathways and study options available in WA and Australia, that we think can help you get started on your exciting new journey.

• Bachelor of Information Technology
• Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours)
• Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours)
• Bachelor of Design (Digital Experience and Interaction Design)
• Master of Information Technology
• Master of Simulation and Immersive Technologies
• Diploma of Augmented and Virtual Reality

Do you ever wish you could build a city or world just the way you want? As an offworld habitat designer, you can! As humans seek to explore beyond Earth and to live on other planets, offworld habitat designers will be the people deciding what those lives will look like. They will design the buildings that will allow humans to live in places that do not have the ideal atmosphere, weather and resources that are needed to survive. These designers will decide what kind of accommodation, work, eating and recreation spaces will exist for people living on Mars and beyond. 

Offworld habitat designers require an understanding of what lifestyles people desire, as well as how structural environments affect society. They must also understand how to design for different planetary conditions, such as longer days or toxic atmospheres.

Career Pathways and Study Options

Check out the career pathways and study options available in WA and Australia, that we think can help you get started on your exciting new journey.

• Bachelor of Architectural Design
• Bachelor of Engineering (Agricultural and Biosystems) Honours
• Master of Engineering (Sustainability and Environmental Engineering)
• Master of Systems Engineering
• Master of Architecture
• Master of Construction Management

Have you ever experienced a fictional world in a book, movie or game that was so incredible that you wished you could live in them yourself? Virtual and augmented reality experience creators make those worlds come to life. Using highly immersive simulation technology, virtual reality experience creators recreate existing realities or design new ones. These realities may be used in tourism, games, television or movies.

Augmented reality experience creators combine digital, visual and design technologies to construct interactive overlays in the real world. These overlays may be used for education, such as interactive museum exhibits or for travel, such as virtual navigation beacons for pilots.

Experience creators require high-level competency in virtual and augmented reality tools. They also need to understand how to engage all of the senses to produce a realistic and enjoyable experience.

Career Pathways and Study Options

Check out the career pathways and study options available in WA and Australia, that we think can help you get started on your exciting new journey.

• Bachelor of Information Technology
• Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours)
• Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours)
• Diploma of Augmented and Virtual Reality
• Graduate Diploma in Immersive Media Technologies
• Master of Simulation and Immersive Technologies

Should drones have to indicate when turning or should they give way to the right?

With drones becoming increasingly popular for both business and recreation, drone airspace regulators are needed to develop road rules for the sky.

Regulations are needed to ensure the safety of everyone in the air and on the ground. Drones must have rules to help prevent them from flying into planes, crashing into buildings or invading people’s privacy.

Drone airspace regulators will create laws to control both private and commercial drone use. This may include setting speed limits, restricted altitudes and no fly zones.

In addition to developing regulations about where and how to fly, drone airspace regulators will decide what safety technology drones must have. Drone airspace regulators will be involved in making policy and in enforcing that drone operators comply with laws. 

Career Pathways and Study Options

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• Air Traffic Control Careers
• Bachelor of Aviation (Management)
• Bachelor of Applied Science (Aviation)

Imagine being able to design and construct a building at the touch of a button. Massive 3D Printed Building Designers do just that, using computer aided design to design buildings that can be printed using large, portable 3D printers. The materials that they use will be very different to those that are traditionally used in building construction. Many of these printers will build structures using recycled waste and reclaimed construction materials. With the ability to complete whole buildings within days, 3D printing will revolutionise the construction industry. It may also change the way communities respond to events such as natural disasters, allowing immediate reconstruction of destroyed buildings.

A 3D Printed Building Designer will need design, engineering, visual creativity and computer skills to create safe and functional buildings. They will also have to design buildings from the bottom up, in the same way that they will be printed. 

Career Pathways and Study Options

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• Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) Honours
• Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) Honours
• Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) / Industrial Design
• Bachelor of Engineering Technology (Civil)
• Diploma of Engineering Technology (Mechatronic Engineering)

In recent years, some clothing retailers have provided a high-tech shopping experience: virtual change rooms that allow customers to try on different looks without having to lift a finger. With the rise of online shopping, many customers are looking for an even more personalised, convenient service. That is where the digital tailor comes in.            

Using state-of-the art digital measuring and 3D modelling technologies, digital tailors ensure that customers get the perfect custom fit every time. Digital tailors visit clients at home or work. They use digital measuring technology to perfectly measure clients quickly and without invading their privacy. These measurements are automatically uploaded to the cloud and used to create customised clothes with the perfect fit. Digital tailors may also offer styling advice, helping clients to select individual pieces or outfits for special events.

A digital tailor does not require a qualification, but does need to be detail-oriented and have an eye for fashion.

Career Pathways and Study Options

Check out the career pathways and study options available in WA and Australia, that we think can help you get started on your exciting new journey.

• Bachelor of Software Engineering
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Design (Graphic Design) Undergraduate Major
• Diploma of Visual Arts (Product Design)
• Certificate IV in Design (Product Design)
• Certificate III in Design Fundamentals