Virtual Reality, SGN-5406

5 credit points. Course page at the Course Catalog

Contents of the course

An introductory course to virtual reality. Gives basic concepts to understand and evaluate VR systems, applications and simulators, and their impact on future digital systems and user interfaces. The course is suitable to students of various fields of technology. A small laboratory/essay work is required. Accepted as a post graduate course.

Teacher: Ismo Rakkolainen

Literature

Lecture notes.
The lecturenotes will be available online during the course. Ask the lecturer.

Book: Virtual Reality Technology.
Written by G. Burdea and P. Coiffet and published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
This book can be borrowed for a short loan (max. overnight) from Atanas Boev.

Lectures Autumn 2009

The lectures are given as an intensive course on the FIRST period only.
The lectures are daily during 14.-29.9. in TC163: Monday 14-17, Tuesday 14-17, Wednesday 11-14, Thursday 11-14, Friday 12-15.

Schedule and contents of the lectures. Changes possible.
Lecture 1 14.9.2009 Introduction to Virtual Reality
Lecture 2 15.9.2009 Human senses, 3D audio
Lecture 3 16.9.2009 VR displays
At 14-15: Excursion to VTT VR centre, main entrance
Lecture 4 17.9.2009 VR displays, I/O devices, haptics
Lecture 5 18.9.2009 Tracking systems for VR
Lecture 6 21.9.2009 3D graphics & modeling, VR software
Lecture 7 22.9.2009 Networked VR, web3D
Lecture 8 23.9.2009 Augmented Reality, mobile VR
At 14-15: Excursion to TUT Machine engineering's VR lab, K1320B
Lecture 9 24.9.2009 Novel user inferfaces
Lecture 10 28.9.2009 Applications of VR
Lecture 11 29.9.2009 Atanas Boev: Autostereoscopic displays and Labwork.
Don't miss this and don't be late. Assignment is obligatory

Exams

Registering for the exam is absolutely required. Do it well in advance.

22.10.2009
7.12.2009
18.1.2010

The max points of the exam is 60. Typically ~30 p. gets grade 1, and ~50 p. gets grade 5 (max).
You may be able to upgrade by doing also the extra lab work, which gives 3 p. extra.

Laboratory work

Creating content to a 3D display device in the laboratory. This is the easy one. Information about the laboratory work
When you have your model ready and rendered to suitable form (bitmap + depth map combination), contact Atanas Boev to show your work at the laboratory. You will get the credits for this course when both the exam and the lab work are done and accepted.

Alternatively writing an essay. The subject of the essay can be almost anything that concerns some area of virtual reality.

Yet another option (contact Ismo): 3DUI Grand Prize. Registration deadline Oct 15th, 2009.
http://conferences.computer.org/3dui/3dui2010/