Kennesaw State graduate helps VR lab develop next-generation business training games - Kennesaw State University

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KENNESAW, Ga. | Dec 13, 2022

Kennesaw State University elder Bonga Maswanganye said it was an often-misunderstood hobby that led him to his present promising vocation way arsenic a programmer and virtual designer.

The Marietta nonmigratory and computer crippled plan and development large is acceptable to postgraduate Dec. 15 and spell to enactment successful the video crippled manufacture after picking among respective offers.

“I’ve ever loved video games. I loved playing them, but I was besides intrigued by the graphics design, the terrain, the improvement of the game’s physics - each of that,” Maswanganye said. “It’s breathtaking to spot a passionateness and a batch of hard enactment construe into being capable to bash thing I love.”

Maswanganye hasn’t lone prepared for his vocation done coursework and mentation astatine KSU. For respective semesters, helium worked astatine KSU’s Realities Lab wrong the College of Computing and Software Engineering, processing virtual world games connected which section businesses bid their employees.

“For me, programming is cathartic and gratifying. It’s truthful satisfying to envision thing and past enactment hard for weeks until you’ve created this portion of exertion that’s conscionable similar you’ve seen successful your head,” helium said. “There’s truthful overmuch much to crippled plan and programming than astir radical realize.”

Kevin Markley, virtual world bundle developer and Realities Lab manager, said Maswanganye wasn’t conscionable a idiosyncratic astatine the laboratory - helium was a large portion of its occurrence during the coronavirus pandemic’s disruptions and beyond. When students and employees alike had to displacement successful a play to moving from home, the lab’s squad inactive had task deadlines looming with 3 companies.

Markley said Maswanganye was 1 of the main reasons those projects for companies, including Cobb EMC, stayed connected track.

“The Realities Lab would beryllium a wholly antithetic spot without him. He was the lone 1 to enactment aft the departure of astir of the workers successful the lab, truthful helium was invaluable for accusation regarding past projects and equipment,” helium said. “Bonga was besides the largest contributor to each task since I arrived and without him, nary of the projects would person had astir arsenic overmuch codification oregon beryllium arsenic stable.”

Markley said Maswanganye, who helium called an “avid seeker of knowledge,” kept moving implicit the summer, adjacent arsenic he’d traveled to South Africa to sojourn family, to marque definite immoderate task bugs were addressed and laboratory needs filled.

“I'm extraordinarily blessed for Bonga, and I'm a small jealous of those who volition enactment with him successful the industry,” Markley said. “The laboratory volition beryllium wholly antithetic without him, from the meetings and discussions to the immense array of instrumentality calibration and usage, and task work, determination isn't thing helium hasn't had a manus in. I deliberation it volition springiness a caller assemblage a accidental to shine, and I anticipation arsenic brightly arsenic helium did here.”

Kennesaw State’s Fall Commencement ceremonies are Dec. 13, 14 and 15.

– By Thomas Hartwell
Photos by Matt Yung