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Experience

Create immersive learning experiences, and take them right through to assessment.

Web-first, built for our spaces, by the team that runs the Lab. No specialist knowledge needed. It's in your hands.

What Experience is

About, within,
and acting within

A textbook teaches you about something. An immersive medium puts you within it: inside the warehouse, the city, the dataset, the model. Experience lets you act within it: measure it, reveal what is hidden, answer for it, be assessed on it. Acting within is where learning happens.

The four faces

Four things at once,
and the order matters

Author

Anyone in the University builds an immersive experience on the web. No specialist software, no setup on the day. You make the lesson; you do not merely show content made elsewhere.

Present

Experience composes that content correctly across each of our spaces, at the right scale, automatically. Design intelligence specific to the room, so the author never thinks about geometry or resolution.

Teach

A pedagogic toolkit, annotations, questions, guided exploration, reveal-and-measure, turns presence into active learning. The pedagogy lives in the authored interaction, not in a presenter’s live performance.

Assess

Students act, answer, and are assessed, right through to a credential that can authorise real-world action, such as signing a student off to use a piece of equipment. Authentic, personalised, transformational.

The seven media

Seven ways of being
within content

Each medium is a different way of being inside content, all authored in one app, all composed at room scale, all carrying the same pedagogic toolkit. Several are available now as preview releases.

360

Be inside a real place: a site, a city, a landscape.

360 PLAYER · TRIPLE POD RETAIL FRONTAGE Primary entry, 8.4m clearance INTERIOR → ANNOTATIONS COST DATA STREET · 1/4 GUIDE EXPLORE
Pin-Up

The same work shown simultaneously, for critique and exhibition.

IMMERSIVE THEATRE · 17K × 2K A. PATEL · STRATEGIC DESIGN J. CHEN · MKTG 4102 S. WILLIAMS · BRAND STRATEGY M. OKONKWO · FIN 3201 L. GARCIA · DATA VIZ R. HASSAN · REAL ESTATE 2026 GUIDE EXPLORE
Super-Slide

Spatial composition at the scale of the room: the whole story on one slide, not a deck blown up. It can hold any other medium inside it.

SUPER-SLIDES · IMMERSIVE THEATRE + Add Scene GUIDE EXPLORE
Open Canvas

A free, collaborative working surface across the walls.

OPEN CANVAS · IMMERSIVE THEATRE · LIVE SESSION OPPORTUNITIES THREATS STRATEGIC RESPONSE RESOURCES NEEDED PORTER'S FIVE FORCES PARTICIPANTS LIVE
Data

Be inside information at the scale of the territory it describes.

IMMERSIVE DATA · DOUBLE POD · LIVE FEED 25 50 75 MARKET INDEX 98.4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 FTSE Index Portfolio A Portfolio B PORTFOLIO RETURN +14.2% YTD · LIVE FEED SECTOR EXPOSURE TECH FIN ENERGY PROP GUIDE EXPLORE
Map

Geographic and spatial annotation: layered markers, routes, waypoints.

3D

Be around and inside a model at the scale it was designed to inhabit; measure it, reveal it.

3D EXPLORER · SINGLE POD · MODEL LIBRARY GLAZING SPECIFICATION Triple-glaze · U-value 0.8 W/m²K FIRST FLOOR → GROUND FLOOR FIRST FLOOR ROOF TERRACE RETAIL UNIT · 1/3 GUIDE EXPLORE
How it feels to use

Bring finished work,
composed to the room

Create in the powerful tools you already know, then bring the finished product: a PDF, a 360 image, an optimised 3D model. Experience composes it to the room. The room's own proportions drive the composition, so you specify nothing about scale or geometry.

Author anywhere on the web, then walk into the Lab to find it ready. And because the pedagogy is built into the experience, the learning is driven by the student: the academic facilitates rather than performs.

What it is not

A learner's tool,
not a display system

Not a display system

Putting pixels on walls is the least of what it does.

Not a presenter's tool

It is a learner's tool that an author prepares and a facilitator supports.

Not PowerPoint on the walls

It composes at the scale of the room, and it teaches and assesses, which slides cannot.

Get access

Put it to work
for yourself

Experience is open to students and colleagues across the University. Create your account, and the Quick Start Guides, templates, and content library are waiting. If you would like to build your first session with us, the CAT LAB team is ready to help.