IBE320 Extended Reality (Spring 2026)

ECTS Credits:
7.5
Responsible faculty:
Avdeling for logistikk
Campus:
Molde
Course Leader:
James Charles Wen
Teaching language:
English
Study level:
{code=LN, name=Foundation courses, level I}
Duration:
½ year

Table of contents

Contents

The course introduces the area of ​​​​digital technologies that seeks to alter, create, or otherwise modify a person's experience of reality through approaches commonly referred to as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR). Often combined under the term eXtended Reality (XR), this course will provide a history of XR, an overview of the technologies involved, the issues encountered, the applications possible, as well as the foundational physiological and cognitive experience of sensing and perceiving reality. This course will examine some of the particular technical challenges in creating XR systems such as interaction and tracking. Practical sessions and assignments will cover elements of designing, building, and evaluating XR experiences.

The course is connected to the following study programs

  • Individual Study Courses/Part- time studies
  • Bachelor in IT and Digitalization

Recommended knowledge

Programming is required (not just recommended)

The student's learning outcomes after passing the exam

On completion of the course the student will have knowledge of:

the hardware and software involved in creating the XR experiences,

  • XR design and development processes, etc
  • how human beings interact with XR systems.

The student will have competence to:

  • assess how XR can address identified needs, etc
  • contribute in projects where they consider using or developing XR as part of the solutions.

The student will have acquired skills in:

  • setting up XR experiences using software, etc
  • evaluating XR systems.

The student will gain a sense of:

  • the social consequences of XR technologies, and
  • the environmental impact of using XR in a variety of settings.

Forms of teaching and learning

4 hours of teaching per week with lectures, seminars, project work and problem solving with guidance from auxiliary teacher and subject teacher.

Coursework requirements - conditions for taking the exam

  • Mandatory coursework: Assignments and attendance at lectures
  • Assignments given: 3
  • Assignments required: 3
  • Attendance: Required
  • Comment: Two of the assignments are graded numerically and converted to the equivalent letter grade. The third assignment is an exam qualifying assignment and is graded pass/fail.

Exam

Form of assessment: Two home exams

Share: 60%

Duration: 2 x 3,5 weeks

Grouping: Individual

Grading: Letter (AF)

Support material: All printed and written supporting material

Form of assessment: Digital School Exam

Share: 40%

Duration: 4 hours

Grouping: Individual

Grading: Letter (AF)

Conditions for taking the exam: Student must pass the projects to take the final exam

Support material: Only general dictionary in mother tongue/Norwegian/English in paper version

Note: A partial fail does not automatically imply a fail as the final grade. Instead, the final grade will be determined as the average of all the partial assessments.

Last updated from FS (Felles studentsystem) Oct. 14, 2026 7:18:47 PM