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You Can Do More Than You Think: Memories of Randy Pausch

As part of CMU’s celebration of the 10th anniversary of ETC Co-Founder Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture, Distinguished Professor of the Practice, Jesse Schell gave a lecture “You Can Do More Than You Think: Memories of Randy Pausch” on Monday March 5, 2018.  Jesse Schell had the privilege of meeting Randy Pausch at the Walt Disney... Read more »

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Faculty piece at interactive exhibit

This year’s installment  of Digiplayspace at the TIFF Bell Lightbox includes ETC faculty member Heather Kelley’s commissioned piece, Hopscotch.  The exhibit aims to empower audiences to see everyday technologies in a new light, full of artistic expression and possibilities. An article in the Toronto Star describes the exhibition that runs now until April 22 as... Read more »

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ETC at GDC 2018

Each spring in San Francisco, over 26,000 programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the development of interactive games and virtual reality gather to exchange ideas and shape the future of the industry game development industry at The Game Developers Conference (GDC).  The conference is always big part of... Read more »

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Annual West Coast Trip

The week before the spring semester starts, the ETC first year students participate in our annual West Coast Trip (WCT).   During this networking trip, the students visit potential employers in the entertainment technology industry as well as meet ETC alumni in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas.   The WCT also includes a... Read more »

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Chat with Randy Pausch

“It’s not about how to achieve your dreams, it’s about how to lead your life, … If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.” ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Professor of Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction, was a co-founder... Read more »

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ETC start-up wins Microsoft HoloLens Developer Contest

ETC spin-off Music Everywhere, Inc. has been named a winner in the worldwide HoloLens contest held by Microsoft and Unity.  With over 1,000 submissions, their AR piano learning application has won the competition’s grand prize.  The team of ETC alumni co-founders Seth Glickman (17), Fu Yen Hsiao (17), and Byunghwan Lee (17) was awarded the $100K cash prize,... Read more »

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ETC project made CMU homepage

Right before the winter break, CMU School of Architecture released a video featuring the work of ETC project PlastAR. The PlastAR project was from the spring 2017 semester, the team of ETC students worked with CMU School of Architecture professors  Francesca Torello and Joshua Bard and the Carnegie Museum of Art Hall of Architecture to... Read more »

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ETC Project AR app being used in Carnegie Museum of Art

During the spring of 2017 semester, team PlastAR worked with Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture and the Carnegie Museum of Art to create a compelling augmented reality experience using the Google Tango. Soon, the Carnegie Museum of Art Hall of Architecture will use tablets outfitted with the app, Plaster ReCast, to enhance a user’s... Read more »

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ETC student game wins 2nd place at CHI Play Conference

Angle Jungle, an iPad math game, has been awarded second place at the CHI Play 2017 student game competition.  The game was created during the spring 2017 semester by the ETC project team Tiny.  Jibran Khan, the game designer for the team attended the conference in Amsterdam and was able to accept the award. Angle... Read more »

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ETC at IndieCade Festival 2017

The ETC has two interactive media projects accepted in this year’s IndieCade Festival 2017.  Assistant Professor Jessica Hammer’s Rosentrasse and ETC student project team Mocking Bird’s interactive film, Mind Field were both selected to show their work in the IndieCade Events. Rosenstrasse is a table top role-playing game about intermarried couples living in Berlin from... Read more »

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