| Week 1 |
| Sept 2
Interrante |
Course Overview |
| Sept 4
Interrante |
A History and Overview of Virtual Reality Technology Development
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Week 2 |
| Sept 9
Interrante |
History of VR technology (cont'd)
|
| Sept 11
Interrante |
An Overview of Virtual Reality Applications
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Week 3 |
| Sept 16
Interrante |
Overview of VR applications (cont'd)
|
| Sept 18
|
no class, professor out of town |
| Week 4 |
| Sept 23
Interrante |
Display Technologies: head mounted displays
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Sept 25
Interrante |
HMDs (cont'd)
|
| Week 5 |
| Sept 30
Isom |
An Introduction to Spatialized Sound
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Oct 2
Phillips |
An Overview of Augmented Reality Technology and Applications
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Week 6 |
| Oct 7
Wetzel |
An Overview of Haptics Technology and Applications in VR and AR
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Oct 9
Sisley |
How the Wii is being used in VR
[links for more info] |
| Week 7 |
| Oct 14
Johnson |
An Overview of Immersive Projection Technologies and Applications
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Oct 16
Interrante |
Spatial perception in virtual environments
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Week 8 |
| Oct 21
Ries |
Walter 107 VR hardware
|
| Oct 23
Ries |
Walter 107 VR software
|
| Week 9 |
| Oct 28
Interrante |
Spatial perception in virtual environments, cont'd
|
| Oct 30
Wetzel |
Gesture-based interfaces
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Week 10 |
| Nov 4
Isom |
Avatars
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Nov 6
Philips |
Tracking Systems
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Week 11 |
| Nov 11
Johnson |
Presence
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Nov 13
Sisley |
Applications of VR in psychiatry
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Week 12 |
| Nov 18
Isom |
Devices and Methods for Object Manipulation in VEs
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Nov 20
Sisley |
Applications of VR in Data and Information Visualization
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Week 13 |
| Nov 25
Johnson |
Systems for Managing and Rendering Virtual Worlds
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Nov 27 | no class, Thanksgiving Holiday |
| Week 14 |
| Dec 2
Phillips |
Locomotion in Virtual Environments
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Dec 4
Wetzel |
Use of VR in military simulation
[assigned reading] [links for more info] |
| Week 15 |
| Dec 9
All |
Final Project Presentations (Walter 107)
|