Web-first, built for our spaces, by the team that runs the Lab. No specialist knowledge needed. It's in your hands.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Be inside a real place: a site, a city, a landscape.
The same work shown simultaneously, for critique and exhibition.
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.
A free, collaborative working surface across the walls.
Be inside information at the scale of the territory it describes.
Geographic and spatial annotation: layered markers, routes, waypoints.
Be around and inside a model at the scale it was designed to inhabit; measure it, reveal it.
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.
Putting pixels on walls is the least of what it does.
It is a learner's tool that an author prepares and a facilitator supports.
It composes at the scale of the room, and it teaches and assesses, which slides cannot.
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.