COSC 829: Advanced Virtual Reality Systems
COURSE
DESCRIPTION
The course explains how to build complex virtual worlds being able to be distributed on the networks. Advanced concepts for real-time animation, 3d interaction, gesture recognition, audio, haptic rendering, collision detection and response, facial communication, voice recognition and synthesis will be covered. Students will design and develop an interactive, three-dimensional (3D) game or educational application.
Text
Book
Course
Related Links
All
the lecture slides are at Blackboard
* Syllabus (blackboard)
* Assignments (blackboard)
* Unity 3D
* Vizard helpful links
* Project
Proposal Report
Approved Projects
Paper presentations
Usability Study helpfull links
FINAL GROUP PROJECTS (2019)
FINAL GROUP PROJECTS (2020)
Weekly
Time Schedule
| 2 - Sept |
Introduction |
Assignment
1 |
| 9 - Sept |
Vizard & Unity 3D |
|
| 16 - Sept |
Networked VR |
Assignment 2 |
| 23 - Sep |
Web 3D, CVE, MUVR |
|
| 30 - Sep |
Presentations |
Assignment 3 |
| 7 - Oct |
Augmented Reality, Mobile VR |
|
| 14 - Oct |
Open Lab/Project
Proposal Presentation |
Due:
Project Proposal Report & Presentation |
| 21 - Oct |
Presentations, 3D & VR displays |
|
| 28 - Oct |
3D-Novel user interfaces |
Mid
Term Paper |
| 4 - Nov |
Human Factors Research |
|
| 11 - Nov |
Evaluation and the User Experience |
|
| 18 - Nov |
Presentations |
Mid
Project Demo |
| 25 - Nov |
Thanksgiving Recess |
|
2 - Dec |
Applications in VR |
|
| 9 - Dec |
Group
Project Presentations/ Demo. |
Due
date for Report |
| 16 - Dec |
Final
Exam
|
|
* Project
Deliverables and Evaluation
* Project
Report [FINAL]
* Usefull
links for 3D models
VRML
Resources
To view our three-dimensional VRML 2.0 models, we recommend the CosmoPlayer
plug-in for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, and other Web browsers. The
CosmoPlayer can be downloaded
from this NIST Web site, from karmanaut, or from other places. Please
refer to these latest Download and Install Instructions from NIST.
