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COSC 829: Virtual Reality and its Applications

Project Proposal Report

Guidelines for Project Proposal Report:

A header should provide: - Project title - Names of student - Course and term
GOAL AND OBJECTIVES: List out the goals of the project.
- A minimum 3-page high-level narrative about the project, Need, objectives, etc.
- [For example evacuation behavior simulation, plane take-off simulation, hazardous events, reconstruction or remodeling of a building, etc.
MODELING (3ds Max /Maya/sketch up) : Describe the envisioned virtual environment (building, trees, people, furniture, landscaping elements, etc.)

Planned geometry, use of textures, animations, behavior and functionality, etc.
Describe how the application will be used.
(envisioned users, navigation, interactions, etc.)

Vision: Use of textures and 3D models to provide detailed information in the project.
Sound: Use speech, music or ambient sounds to help provide information about this place.
Animation: Use at least three animated object in the project.
Interactivity: Use at least five user-triggered events in the environment.
Characters: Have animated agents (path following behavior) in the environment.
Sensors: Use at least three different types of sensors ( Proximity, Time, Touch, and Visibility) in the project.
Player: Add a Player Controller to the Scene: First Person Controller or 3rd Person Controller
Multi-User Environment: More than two people to be present in the same environment.
CUSTOM avatar: (car/fish, etc.) and atleast 1 INBUILT avatar in vizard/Unity3D to create the multi-agent system.
AI: Implement AI functionality depending upon the project (navigation, behaviors, shortest path, etc.), implement different behviors (selfish, altruistic, learning, adaptive, etc.) in the environment through a user menu (number of agents assignment).
Interface: Design the interface that include menu items such as buttons, etc.
Extra Credit: Hardware Integration: Oculus integration or 5DT data glove integration.

Try to incorporate the above functionalities and explain how
Explain the behaviors implemented in Vizard/Unity 3D for different agents/avatars
Explain the multi-user capability implmented. Also, mention about why different users should be present in your environment.
Argue briefly why this application is useful and why virtual reality is the appropriate technology for this project.
List software and hardware equipment that is required or desired for the implementation.

PROJECT IDEAS

1. VR Classroom:

Online class room in client server network

Helpful links for free VRML client server

2. Crowd Simulation and Evacuation Simulation

3. Military simulations, combat situation, battlefield simulations

Helpful links

Usefull links for 3D models