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Vertically Integrated Projects
The Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program is a transformative approach to enhancing higher education by engaging undergraduate and graduate students in ambitious, long-term, large-scale, multidisciplinary project teams, led by faculty. The program has been rigorously evaluated and refined over more than two decades.
RIT joined the VIP consortium in the summer of 2023.
The VIP Model
The VIP Program engages both undergraduate and graduate students in faculty-led multidisciplinary project teams. Students earn academic credits, while faculty and graduate students benefit from the design/discovery efforts of their teams.
The VIP model has eight essential elements:
- Projects are embedded in faculty mentor’s scholarship and exploration.
- Projects are long-term and large-scale, continuing for many years, even decades.
- Program is curricular and all participating students are graded.
- Students can participate and earn credits toward their degrees for at least two years.
- Learning outcomes focus on the development of both disciplinary and professional skills.
- Multi-disciplinary teams are encouraged but not required.
- Dedicated classroom and meeting spaces.
- Faculty/student participation is based on mutual interest
Active teams
ChangelingVR: A Narrative VR Game
ChangelingVR is a virtual reality first-person interactive mystery. Progress through a series of interconnected levels featuring unique mechanics as well as distinct themes and visual designs. Discover the rich narrative of ChangelingVR through different VR interactions, complex characters, and immersive world exploration.
Learn more about the ChangelingVR project
Cultural Heritage Imaging, Preservation, and Research
Student and faculty researchers will work together to develop, enhance, and deploy methods to advance imaging techniques, related research, and applications that can impact the research, scholarship, and practice of scholars in humanities and arts as well as practitioners in cultural heritage and memory institutions, such as libraries, archives, and museums.
echoes: Exploring games as reflections of our community
Design, develop, and publish collections of small, meaningful games as a mechanism to create shared understanding and connection in this RIT GCCIS Vertically Integrated Project.
Peaceland: Choose Your Memory
Students, faculty, collaborators will continue researching, designing, developing a role playing video game that highlights the impact memories and the way they are narrated have on a fictional country 20 to 30 years after a conflict ends. It helps players understand how small decisions lead to a lasting peace or not.
XRLive: Computational Tools for Live Performance
Explore the use of computational tools, technologies, and methodologies in the process of the production of live theatrical and dance performances. Sample technologies on which we focus include virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, facial and body motion capture, volumetric video capture, projection mapping, audio synthesis and analysis, lighting and special effects.
