RIT’s MAGIC Center held their first annual “ArTech Cre8-a-th0n” Sept. 16 and 17, putting the collaborative might of artists, programmers, engineers and makers of all kinds of on display. This hackathon brought students from all the aforementioned backgrounds together. The groups they formed imagined and created an extensive variety of projects. Held in the Student Innovation Hall of the Center for […]
Rochester is an axis of innovation that offers a wealth of expertise and resources to New York State manufacturers. Join us for this special Lunch and Learn opportunity to find out how your business can leverage this city’s most cutting-edge capabilities. Experience presentations by leading Rochester-based resources, a networking luncheon, and a tour that will reveal some […]
Locally made video games available to public this weekend Henrietta, N.Y. — RIT is working to turn the Rochester area into a hub for video game design and development. More than two-dozen video games designed by local gamers will be available for the public to play this weekend.
With our new facility opening this year, and numerous other elements demanding our engagement on campus, we are in discussions to retool and re-envision our efforts both for this year’s series, and the series going forward into the future. While we may be able to bring in a speaker this spring, our opportunities this year […]
Please join the RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity (MAGIC) and the School of Individualized Study (SoIS) for an exciting event on Thursday, September 21 from 4:00-5:30PM in Student Innovation Hall as we host filmmaker, Cailleah Scott-Grimes for a screening of her debut documentary, She Got Game.
On September 16th & 17th, the MAGIC Center, in collaboration with the FOSS@MAGIC initiative, will be hosting the 1st ArTech Cre8-a-th0n at RIT. At the event, attendees from RIT and the Rochester community will work on creative challenges that demonstrate the expressive power of technology when combined with art and design. Artists, programmers, and makers […]
Frameless Labs Announces Inaugural Festival on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality Frameless Labs Festival @ Light and Sound Interactive will take place Wednesday, September 13 from 7-9 pm at MAGIC Center, RIT. The festival will feature virtual and augmented reality projects as well as digital performance pieces from around the world. The festival is sponsored […]
Frameless Labs VR/AR Fall Festival Virtual reality and digital performance are re-imagining the way stories are told. Join Frameless Labs for our fall kickoff event and lose yourself in cutting edge technology, incredible performances, games and film. Free and open to the public Wednesday, September 13th 7:00-9:00PM.
As the 2017-2018 NFL season kicks off, fans of the Buffalo Bills will be treated to a new virtual-reality experience at New Era Field, designed by RIT alumni, to help fans “see” the stadium from a unique perspective. Rochester Institute of Technology’s MAGIC Spell Studios has, at the request of the Buffalo Bills, created an […]
Building an Open Source Hardware Business – Give away the bits, sell the things RIT Alumnus David Brenner will be covering a brief overview of open source hardware (history, why it is important, patents vs. open source, right to repair laws,etc) followed by an in-depth discussion of building Thimble.io: a business built on developing and […]
Molly is a general purpose server-side development framework designed to simplify the development of complex web sites and apps, while not locking the developer into any particular design paradigm. Molly has been used to build distance learning tools, virtual communities, electronic health record components, mobile apps, commercial web sites, and even a grid-super computing portal. […]
The METAL Lab is dedicated to exploring and developing new and emerging media technologies with a focus on their application to improving learning and interpersonal communication via the internet. In the METAL Lab students build both web-development infrastructure (i.e. reusable frameworks and modules) and projects using that infrastructure. Current projects include work from undergraduates, graduates, […]