COSC 829: Advanced Virtual Reality Systems
Fall Semester 2012 Course Information
Instructor: Dr. Sharad Sharma
Department of Computer Science
Bowie State University
E-MAIL: ssharma@bowiestate.edu

CLASS HOURS: Tuesday: 4:55 PM – 7:25 PM, CSB 312
OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday: 1:55 – 4:55 PM, or by appointment
OFFICE LOCATION: Computer Science Building, Room 317

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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.

 

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Text Book

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Course Related Links

All the lecture slides are at Blackboard

* Syllabus

* Assignments

* Vizard helpful links

Approved Projects

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Weekly Time Schedule

4 - Sept	Introduction
11 - Sept	WorldViz Vizard	Assignment 1
18 - Sept	Augmented Reality, mobile VR
25 - Sept	3D graphics & modeling, VR software	Assignment 2
2 - Oct	Tracking systems for VR
9 - Oct	3D & VR displays
16 - Oct	Mid Term Exam
23 - Oct	Open Lab/Project Proposal Presentation	Due: Project Proposal Report & Presentation
30 - Oct	I/O devices, haptics	Assignment 3
6 - Nov	Networked VR, Web3D	Presentation: Kola, Tatwamasi, Benjamin
13 - Nov	Mobile VR	Presentation: Ruth, Stephen
20 - Nov	Novel user interfaces	Mid Project Demo 1
27 - Nov	Applications in VR	Mid Project Demo 2
4 - Dec	Emerging Applications	Due date for Report
11 - Dec	Group Project Presentations/ Demo, Presentations.	Due date for Project
18-Dec	Final Exam

* Project Deliverables and Evaluation

* PROJECT REPORT

* Project Proposal Report

* Usefull links for 3D models

 

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

 

VRML Resources

VR/AR Introduction and Overview (Knowledge Base)

Visualization and Virtual Reality for Manufacturing

VRML Examples

 

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.