(fyi I’ll be applying to college next year)
Hi, there’s thing thing called “the Void” and it’s supeeer awesome. (It’s an amusement park where participants wear head gears that projects a virtual reality, and people physically participate in the game in the virtual world.)
I was interested in game design/programming from before, so this really caught my attention. I originally decided that I would major in Game design/programming or CS (b/c not that many schools offer Game programming) and maybe minor in Neuroscience.
After I saw the promo video for the Void, I thought that I want to work for something like the Void in the future. So I was wondering if Computer Science or Game design/programming is the right major if I want to go into virtual reality related field. (Also which would be better? CS or Game? ) Or should I go into some kind of engineering?
If you’re going to opt for one major, I would go with CS over game design. There are way more jobs in that domain, and I think it would give you much more flexibility. Since you still haven’t started college yet, it’s one thing to say working for a company like Void would be fun based on the fact that the game concept looks fun. It’s another thing to actually start doing the work and learning the skills for those fields and seeing if you actually like what’s involved. Virtual reality also covers a lot of territory beyond just games (like training simulations, rehabilitation, etc.), so game design only gets into one aspect of that. I would probably also recommend CS over an engineering option, because the engineering majors focus on more on hardware (i.e., in computer engineering you’d do more with building the devices), and it sounds like you’re more interested in the software/design side. As for a minor, I wouldn’t worry about that yet. I started college planning to do a minor in international affairs and ended up minoring in CS. You don’t have to decide that right away, especially since your first semester at least will probably be taken up with required courses. Relevant options could be neuroscience, psychology, graphic design, game design, physics, computer engineering. There are a lot of options. It really depends what direction you want to take it.