The purpose of the literary survey is to go deeper into some specific subject related to VR by using scientific articles, patents, and books. The coding work is probably the easier one! Choose your subject from the list below, or propose your own subject, and tell it to Ismo Rakkolainen. If he approves it, find information on the subject and write max. 10 page paper according to ACM paper formatting. Add the references that you used. 

The survey can also be a patent application excercise:
Invent a patentable idea of a new VR device or such. (The new patentable ideas are not that difficult as you first might think). Keep the idea secret (this is primarily an individual work, unless you want to try it with your friend). Propose the idea to Ismo Rakkolainen and discuss about it (absolutely confidential!). If he accpets the subject, the dig information about related earlier work and the field of related technology, and find out if it is really new or not.
Write around 10 page patent application, in which you tell related earlier work and innovations and their basic ideas, what problems they have related to your innovation, what new you propose, what are the good points of it compared to earlier work, and how you might implement it.
If you find out that your innovation has already been invented, as it often happens, it is no problem. Just write the 10 page report anyway. The "prior art" parts of published patents are excellent sources of the level of a certain technology. Use them also! 
If you have really invented something new, then ir might be possible to really patent it. Do not publish or talk about it anywhere. You might even be eligible to get substantial funding from the University for the patenting costs! 

Most useful scientific papers and patents are available from the net, at least from the TUT net. 

Publications and links in the web
Citeseer
The ACM Digital Library
IEEE publications
HCI-bibliography
3D User Interface Bibliography
Patenttiopas (in Finnish)
US patents
WIPO patents

Subjects 
Computer vision on human, body, or finger tracking
Intel, Microsoft, Java, other computer vision libraries
Registration for augmented reality
Outdoor augmented reality
The 3D features of MPEG-4
X3D (a new web3D format)
The control mechanisms for networked virtual environments
Mobile 3D graphics (PDAs, cell phones, etc.)
The haptic applications in medical virtual reality
VR in rehabilitation
Immersive video
Fidelity Metrics for Virtual Environment Simulations based on Human Judgements of Spatial Memory Awareness States
The technical properties of magnetic tracking devices
The technical properties of optical tracking devices
The technical properties of ZXC devices
Your own subject

Grading 
The grading is based on the same principles as in the coding work. The points of the lab work will be added to the points of the exam (and are thus not the same as the grading of the course).

The following groups have passed the literary survey:

1. NN
NN
points: N