Design and Creation of Virtual Environments

CAP 6930/4930, Section 5694/3947

Benjamin Lok

CSE E220

Course Hours: Tuesdays (5, 6) 11:45 AM – 1:40 PM Thursdays (6) 12:50 PM – 1:40 PM

Office Hours: Tuesdays (7) 1:50 AM – 2:40 AM Thursdays (7) 1:50 AM – 2:40 PM Also available by appointment (email)

TA Office (Rm. 309) Hours: Mondays (5) 11:45 AM - 12:40 PM Wednesdays (5) 11:45 AM - 12:40 PM

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Course lectures August 24^th – Course Introduction 29^th – Introduction to Virtual Environments, Sutherland papers September 6^th – History of VR, Brooks papers 8^th – History of VR 13^th – Seeing 3D from 2D, Hodges paper 15^th - Seeing 3D from 2D, Tour of GMALab 20^th - Seeing 3D from 2D, CAVE + PIT paper 22^nd - Quaternions 27^th – Visual Display 29^th - Visual Display, Flying+Grabbing+Scaling paper October 4^th - Visual Display, HMD Displays, Locomotion papers 6^th - HMD Displays 11^th – HMD Displays, grabbing and WIM paper 13^th – REVE visit 18^th – Output Devices, NAVE visit, project 1 due 20^th – Output Devices 25^th – Output Devices 27^th - Tracking November 1^st – no class, Midterm due 3^rd – Tracking 8^th – Tracking 10^th – Input devices 14^th – Project #2 due 15^th – Tracking, demo of project #2 17^th – Presence 22^nd – no class 24^th – Thanksgiving 29^th – Presence December 1^st – Presence, Interaction 6^th – FINAL PROJECTS!

Course topics (content) Acknowledgement: The lecture notes are based on those created by Dr. Larry Hodges at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (His course) with his permission. Many many thanks! Course Introduction Introduction to Virtual Environments Seeing 3D from 2D Quaternions Visual Display HMD Displays HTD Displays Tracking Presence Interaction Virtual Characters Virtual Reality Technology - Burdea Chapter 1: History of VR Chapter 3: Output Devices Chapters 2,7,8,9

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Class Projects Project #1 Due October 4th, October 18^th Project #1 stereo and ARToolkit demo OBJ file reader + GL tutorials Midterm Due November 1^st Project #2 Due November 14^th Project #3 Due December 6^th Quizzes

Important Links Syllabus Advertising Flyer for Class Available Equipment

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Readings

August 31^st - The Ultimate Display

(original http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/cs/online/9ig2/1/ultimate_display.html)
I. E. Sutherland, The Ultimate Display,"in Proceedings of the IFIPS Congress, vol. 2, pp. 506-508, 1965.

Head Mounted Three Dimensional Display
I.E. Sutherland, "A Head-mounted Three-dimensional Display," in 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, AFIPS Conference Proceedings, vol. 33, pp. 757-764, 1968.

Presenter: Jeffrey Jarrard

September 6^th – Is There Any Real Virtue in Virtual Reality

(original http://www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/RealVirtue.pdf)

Brooks, Jr., F.P., 1994: "Is There Any Real Virtue in Virtual Reality?" Public lecture co-sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society, November 30, London.

Presenter (Investigate 3 of the systems described): Beau Hollis

September 6^th – What's Real About Virtual Reality

(original http://www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/WhatsReal.pdf)

Brooks,Jr., F.P., 1999: "What's Real About Virtual Reality?" IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications,19, 6:16-27.

Presenter (Investigate 2 of the systems described): Andrew Magis

September 13^th - [APPLICATION] Treating Psychological and Physical Disorders with VR

(original http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/vrlab/publications/papers/2001_ieee_cga.pdf)
Hodges, L.F., Anderson, P., Burdea, G., Hoffman, H., and Rothbaum, B. (2001). Treating psychological and physical disorders with VR. IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications 21, 6, pp. 25-33.

Presenter: Omer Shahid

September 13^th - [APPLICATION] Virtual Environments for Treating the Fear of Heights (Hodges)

(go through: http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/co/&toc=comp/mags/co/1995/07/r7toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/2.391038)

Hodges, L.F., Rothbaum, B.O., Kooper, R., Opdyke, D., Meyer, T., North, M., de Graff, J.J., Williford, J. (1995). Virtual environments for treating the fear of heights. IEEE Computer 28,7, pp. 27-34.

Presenter: Salam Daher

September 20^th – [LOCOMOTION] Walking > Walking-in-Place > Flying, in Virtual Environments (Usoh)

(originalhttp://www.cs.unc.edu/~eve/papers/EVEAuthored/1999-SIGGRAPH-Usoh.pdf)

Usoh, M., K. Arthur, M. Whitton, R. Bastos, A. Steed, M. Slater and F. Brooks. "Walking > walking-in-place > flying in virtual environments". Proc. of SIGGRAPH '99, Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series. 1999 p 359-364.

Presenter: Matt Singer

September 20^th – [HARDWARE] Surround-Screen Projection-Based Virtual Reality: The Design & Implementation of the CAVE

(original http://www.evl.uic.edu/EVL/RESEARCH/PAPERS/CRUZ/sig93.paper.html)

Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel Sandin, & Thomas A. Defanti. Surround-screen Projection-based Virtual Reality: The Design & Implementation of the CAVE. Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, 1993, pp. 135-142.

Presenter: Paul Wonderly

September 27^th – [MANIPULATION] Flying, Scaling, and Grabbing in a Virtual World (Warren Robinett)

W. Robinett and R. Holloway. Implementation of flying, scaling, and grabbing in virtual worlds. In Computer Graphics, pages 189-192, 1992.

Presenter: Christopher Pearson

September 27^th – [RENDERING] Quaternions (Shomeake)

K. Shoemake, "Animating rotation with quaternion curves," ACM SIGGRAPH, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 245--254, 1985.

Presenter: Luis Felipe Garcia

October 4^th – [LOCOMOTION] Travel in Immersive Virtual Environments: An Evaluation of Viewpoint Motion Control Techniques (Bowman)

(original: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~bowman/papers/travel.pdf)

Bowman, D., Koller, D., and Hodges, L. Travel in Immersive Virtual Environments: An Evaluation of Viewpoint Motion Control Techniques. Proceedings of the Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS), 1997, pp. 45-52.

Presenter: Thomas Brown

October 4^th – [LOCOMOTION] Spatial Orientation and Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Spaces: An Introduction

Darken, R.P., Allard, T., & Achille, L. (1998). Spatial Orientation and Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Spaces: An Introduction. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 7(2), pp. 101-107.

(original: http://www.movesinstitute.org/darken/publications/SPATNAV1.pdf)

[LOCOMOTION] Spatial Orientation and Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Spaces: Part 2

Darken, R.P., Allard, T., and Achille, L.B. (1999). Spatial Orientation and Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Spaces: Guest Editors' Introduction, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 8(6) pp. iii-vi.

(original: http://www.movesinstitute.org/darken/publications/SPATNAV2.pdf)

Presenter: Daniel Gonzalez

October 11^th – [INTERACTION] An Evaluation of Techniques for Grabbing and Manipulating Remote Objects in Immersive Virtual Environments (Bowman)

(original: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~bowman/papers/grab.pdf)

Bowman, D. and Hodges, L. An Evaluation of Techniques for Grabbing and Manipulating Remote Objects in Immersive Virtual Environments. Proceedings of the 1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, 1997, pp. 35-38.

Presenter: Dhruv Chawla

October 11^th – [INTERACTION ] Virtual Reality on a WIM: Interactive Worlds in Miniature

(original: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~stage3/publications/95/conferences/chi/paper.html)

Virtual Reality on a WIM: Interactive Worlds in Miniature, Richard Stoakley, Matthew Conway, Randy Pausch, ACM CHI'95 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1995.

Presenter: Jian Wei Gao

October 18^th – [AVATARS] Body Centred Interaction in Immersive Virtual Environments (Slater)

(original: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/m.slater/Papers/bci.pdf)

Slater, M., and Usoh, M. (1994) Body Centred Interaction in Immersive Virtual Environments, in N. Magnenat Thalmann and D. Thalmann (eds.) Artificial Life and Virtual Reality, John Wiley and Sons, 1994, 125-148.

Presenter: Karen Cano

October 18^th – [AVATARS] The Role of Virtual Humans in Virtual Environment Technology and Interfaces (Thalmann)

(original: http://ligwww.epfl.ch/~thalmann/papers.dir/EU.NSF.PDF)

D.Thalmann. The Role of Virtual Humans inVirtual Environment Technology and Interfaces, Proceedings of Joint EC-NSF Advanced Research Workshop, Bonas, France, 1998.

Presenter: Young In Yeo

October 25^th – [TRACKING] Motion Tracking: No Silver Bullet, but a Respectable Arsenal (Welch)
Welch, Greg and Eric Foxlin (2002). .Motion Tracking: No Silver Bullet, but a Respectable Arsenal,. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, special issue on .Tracking,. November/December 2002, 22(6): 24.38.

Presenter: Vishal Bhakta

October 25^th – Chapter 3: Output Devices

Presenter: Aaron Kotranza

November 1^st – NO READINGS

November 8^th – [PRESENCE] Using Presence Questionnaires in Reality (Usoh)
Martin Usoh, Ernest Catena, Sima Arman, and Mel Slater. Using Presence Questionnaires in Reality. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, vol. 9, no. 5, 2000, pp. 497-503.

Presenter: Andrew Raij

November 8th^th – Chapter 2 - Input Devices

Presenter: Rebecca Wells

November 15^th – [RESEARCH] A Touring Machine: Prototyping 3D Mobile Augmented Reality Systems for Exploring the Urban Environment (Feiner)

S. Feiner, B. MacIntyre, T. Höllerer, and T. Webster, A touring machine: Prototyping 3D mobile augmented reality systems for exploring the urban environment. In: Proc. ISWC '97 (First Int. Symp. on Wearable Computers), October 13-14, 1997, Cambridge, MA. Also as: Personal Technologies, 1(4), 1997, pp. 208-217

Presenter: John Quarles

November 22^nd – (THANKSGIVING)

November 29^th – [APPLICATION] Nanomanipulator (Taylor)

(original: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/nano/documentarchive/publications/1999taylor_scientificApps.pdf)

Taylor II, R. M. (1999). "Scientific Applications of Force Feedback: Molecular Simulation and Microscope Control." Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '99, Los Angeles, CA.

Presenter: Po Hu

November 29^th – [LOCOMOTION] Redirected Walking (Razzaque)

(original: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/eve/rdw/redirected_walking_in_place_EGVE_2002.pdf)

Razzaque, S., D. Swapp, M. Slater, M. C. Whitton and A. Steed (2002). "Redirected Walking in Place." Proceedings of Eighth Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments (2002), 123-130, ACM - The Eurographics Association.

Presenter: Tapasvi Moturu