Immersive Rooms Swansea | Carmarthen
Welcome
Welcome to the UWTSD Immersive Rooms, facilities aimed at providing the staff and students of UWTSD, a state-of-the-art teaching and learning environment. Specially designed rooms, leveraging technology to provide an immersive and interactive educational experience.
The Immersive Rooms consists of 3 large video walls, creating an enclosed digital environment. Accompanied by a surround sound system, the spaces are directed at stimulating multiple senses, stressing the importance of the student experience within education, enhancing retention and understanding of complex concepts.
The Immersive Rooms exploit the power of experiential learning, removing the barriers surrounding VR headsets. These immersive spaces bridge theory and practice through a blend of virtual and physical, accommodating all learners and learning methods. The spaces are bookable for all staff, and all courses across UWTSD and are intended for multiple users. These collaborative spaces promote group-based learning experiences, offering a safe environment to simulate different environments from school classroom observations to high-risk industrial setting health and safety training.
UWTSD Immersive Rooms are supported by The Digital Experience and Engagement Team.
If you would like to find out more information, book a session, or request a visit and demonstration, then please contact us: immersive@uwtsd.ac.uk
In this section:
Immersive Room Usage
Room Usage
The Immersive Rooms are multifunctional spaces that can be utilised in a variety of ways. The primary focus is to facilitate and enhance teaching and learning here at UWTSD, however, the rooms can also be used for:
- Workshops
- Exhibitions
- Research
- Visits & demonstrations
- Events
Immersive Room Technology
The Technology
The technology used to build the rooms have been designed and developed to be intuitive by nature, where users of all technology capabilities are able to display content and create an engaging experience. The core technologies featured within the Immersive Rooms consist of the 3 large video walls, a touch screen display, and server stack.
The Screens
The main focal point of the rooms, the 3 video walls, have been designed and constructed to become one seamless canvas that wraps around the room.
Samsung IER/IEA LED display panels, industry leading in High Dynamic Range (HDR) picture quality, creating high quality visual content within the Immersive Rooms. The picture clarity accentuates the ability to effectively simulate physical environments, adding a realism to the experience that enhances teaching and learning.
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- Display: Samsung IER/IEA LED display panels
- Total Cabinets: 85
- Pixel Pitch: 1.5mm
- Total Dimensions: Width: 16.3 m Height: 2.7 m
- Total Resolution: Width: 10,880 px Height: 1800 px
- Sound: 7.1 Surround
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- Display: Samsung IER/IEA LED display panels
- Total Cabinets: 76
- Pixel Pitch: 1.5mm
- Total Dimension: Width: 18.2m Height: 2.2m
- Total Resolution: Width: 12160px Height: 1440px
- Sound: 7.1 Surround
Immersive Room Touch Screen
Touch Screen Display
Situated in the back of the rooms is a 55鈥 Samsung Touchscreen, which acts as the main output for the PCs (situated in the server stack) that controls the rooms. The touch screen is mounted on an adjustable and movable stand, offering the user quick control of the operating system creating an interactive and intuitive user interface.
File Format
ICE also allows us to drop-and-drag content, offering a fast and fluent ability to display media. Whether you send the content beforehand, or would like to test content from a USB, we can display content in several formats:
- Images: All sizes (.jpg, .png)
- Videos: HD, 4K, 8k, 12k, 360 (.mp4, .mov)
- Files: PDF (.pdf)
Immersive Room Igloo Core Engine
Igloo Core Engine
To control displayed content, we utilise Igloo Core Engine (ICE), an award-winning content operating software, enabling you to view and interact with content within the Immersive Rooms. ICE allows you to stream content quickly using a layer-based system, or pre-saved configured Sessions, empowering the user to seamlessly switch between content within the room. ICE has access to a variety of applications such as:
- YouTube 360
- Google Streetview
- Unreal Engine
- Unity
- Revizto
- Matterport
- Google Slides
- ICE Web-Browser
- NDI Streaming
How to Find Us
The Immersive Room Swansea is located in Y Fforwm 003, based on our IQ Campus, Swansea. You can find the location on the following address:
密桃传媒, Swansea Waterfront, IQ Campus, Swansea SA1 8EW.
The Immersive Room Carmarthen is located in Teaching and Learning Block, Room 006, based on our Carmarthen Campus. You can find the location on the following address:
密桃传媒, Carmarthen Campus, Carmarthen SA31 3EP
Get in Touch
The Digital Experience and Engagement team are always on hand to accommodate any Immersive Room booking or content development, across all campuses. Please get in touch if you would like to:
- Find out more information
- Book a visit and demonstration
- Enquire about potential collaboration opportunities
- Get started on immersive content and projects