COSC 829: Advanced Virtual Reality Systems

Fall Semester 2020 Course Information

Instructor: Dr. Sharad Sharma
Department of Computer Science
Bowie State University
E-MAIL: ssharma@bowiestate.edu

CLASS HOURS: Thursday: 4:55 PM – 7:25 PM, Online
OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday: 12:55 – 4:55 PM (blackboard collaborate), or by appointment
OFFICE LOCATION: Computer Science Building, Room 317

 



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

* Assignments

* Unity 3D

* Vizard helpful links

* Project Proposal Report

Approved Projects

Paper presentations

Usability Study helpfull links

FINAL GROUP PROJECTS (2019)


Weekly Time Schedule

3 - Sept

Introduction

Assignment 1

10 - Sept

Vizard & Unity 3D

 

17 - Sept

Networked VR

  Assignment 2

24 - Sep

Web 3D, CVE, MUVR

 

1 - Oct

Presentations

Assignment 3

8 - Oct

Augmented Reality, Mobile VR

 

15 - Oct

Open Lab/Project Proposal Presentation

Due: Project Proposal Report & Presentation

22 - Oct

Presentations, 3D & VR displays

29 - Oct

3D-Novel user interfaces

  Mid Term Paper

5 - Nov

Human Factors Research

12 - Nov

Evaluation and the User Experience

 

19 - Nov

Presentations

Mid Project Demo

26 - Nov

Thanksgiving Recess

   

3 - Dec

Applications in VR

10 - Dec Group Project Presentations/ Demo. Due date for Report

17 - Dec

Final Exam

 

* Project Deliverables and Evaluation

* Project Report [FINAL]

* Usefull links for 3D models

 

Link to Free Software (3DsMax, Maya) for Students on the Education Community

Unity 3D Game Development by Example Book

Unity 3D tutorials

VRML Resources

VR/AR Introduction and Overview (Knowledge Base)

Visualization and Virtual Reality for Manufacturing

VRML Examples

ARToolkit

ARToolkit 2

Reference

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.