News: Jan. 30: The ordered copies are now available for sale
at TiTe, and will also soon
be placed to the archive folders there for copying yourself.
News: June 1: All the exams & lab works have now been
graded. For future courses, see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~ira/opetus/vr-tre.html.
The course will be in English in the first quarter of Spring 2004.
The
course will be an intensive course (4 weeks).
Content of the course:
Lectures 24 h, demonstrations 2 h, laboratory work and an exam. An
introductory course
to virtual reality. Gives the basic skills to understand and evaluate
VR
systems, applications and simulators, and its impact on future digital
systems and user interfaces. The course fits to students of various
fields
of technology. A small
laboratory work is required. Accepted as a post graduate course.
Literature:
The course book is
the Handbook of
Virtual Environments - Design, Implementation and
Applications, edited by Kay Stanney (Online from Erlbaum,
US$95.00). You don't have to read all of the book. The chapters for the
exam
are: 1-5, 8-10,
12-13, 19, 24, 30, 39, 42, 47, 52, 55-56. The book can be seen at my
office.
In addition the following materials:
Future
Multimedia User Interfaces,
An
Introduction to 3D User Interface Design, and
Recent
Advances in Augmented Reality
and copies of the lecture material. You can order a set of
the lecture material in the
first week of the lectures, or copy yourself later from TiTe archives.
Lecture time and place: First period of Spring 2004
(intensive 4 weeks).
THURSDAY 9 - 12, TB111, Ismo Rakkolainen
FRIDAY 9 - 12, TB111, Ismo Rakkolainen
See the schedule below about exact times and places.
Information on prerequisites:
Computer graphics course (8101910, 8402065, or corresponding) is
required.
Laboratory work: See info page at
http://www.vrc.tut.fi/kurssit/virtual_reality/. The lab work will
be made in groups of 2-3.
The work can be either an easy coding task at TUT VR Center, or a literary survey: instructions
in English, instructions
in Finnish. The coding task is guided and checked by Jani Tikkanen
at VR Center, Jani.Tikkanen(at)tut.fi. Ismo Rakkolainen
will check the literary surveys and some lab works. The deadline
for the work is April 25, 2004.
A bad lab work will be dismissed, a good one will pass, and an
excellent
work can gain some 1-6 extra points, if the work is done well and has
taken
some effort. The Extra points may upgrade the grading by one, even two
levels.
The laboratory work and exam should be made during the same year.
It
may well be that the future courses are not compatible, or are not
arranged every year.
Course manager: Dr.Tech. Ismo Rakkolainen,
ismo.rakkolainen(at)tut.fi
Lab work: Jani Tikkanen, Jani.Tikkanen(at)tut.fi, VR Center
Schedule:
Jan. 8, Lecture 1. Introduction to course and VR, VR history
Jan. 9, Lecture 2. Applications of VR, videoclips
Jan. 13 (Tuesday), Excursion.
1.5 h visit to TUT VR Center in
groups of max. 15 persons (limited space). A
registration list will be circulated in the first lectures.
Jan. 15, Lecture 3. Application Case: Finnair flight
simulators. Augmented reality. VR and user interfaces.
Jan. 16, Lecture 4. VR and user interfaces. Human senses
and VR. Audio
in VR.
Jan. 20, Lecture 5. VR displays (Tuesday, TB219)
Jan. 22, Lecture 6. Haptics, tracking, 3D graphics, 3D
modeling, VR software.
Jan. 23, Lecture 7. Networked VR. Web3D (VRML, Java 3D,
MPEG-4, etc.).
Jan. 29, Lecture 8. Tools and info for the lab work
(Jani Tikkanen), forming
of lab work groups. Lab work
tools info
Exams:
You have three chances: February 24th, April 19th, or May 14th.
Register for the exam at oinfo system!
You can also give feedback about the course at https://oinfo.tut.fi/.
The Top Eleven Reasons VR has not yet become commonplace (Lanier's opinion)
Some (old) VR links in web.
Page manager Ismo Rakkolainen, ismo.rakkolainen(at)tut.fi.