COSC 829: Advanced Virtual Reality Systems
Fall Semester 2015 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, CSB 312
OFFICE HOURS: Thursday: 12:55 – 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

Assignment 4: Approved Papers

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Weekly Time Schedule

3 - Sept	Introduction	Assignment 1
10 - Sept	Unity 3D
17 - Sept	Augmented Reality, Mobile VR	Assignment 2 [Tunde, Marvin]
24 - Sept	Presentations	Mamtha, Narayan, Kenneth, vanitha, Sarika, Swetha, James
1 - Oct	3D graphics & modeling, VR software, Tracking systems for VR	Assignment 3 [Presentations: Tunde 2, Marvin2]
8 - Oct	3D & VR displays	Assignment 4 [Presentations: Mamtha2, Naryan2]
15 - Oct	Open Lab/Project Proposal Presentation	Due: Project Proposal Report & Presentation [Present: Kenneth2, vanitha2, Sarika2]
22 - Oct	Presentations	Swetha2, James2, Tunde 3, Marvin3
29 - Oct	I/O devices, haptics	[Presentations: Mamtha3, Narayan3, Kenneth3]
5 - Nov	Networked VR, Web3D,Mobile VR	[Presentations: vanitha3, ]
12 - Nov	Presentations	Sarika3, Swetha3, James3
19 - Nov	Novel user interfaces	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

* Project Proposal Report

* 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

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.