Design and Creation of Virtual Environments
CAP 6930/4930, Section 5694/3947
Benjamin Lok
CSE E220
Course Hours: Tuesdays (5, 6) Thursdays (6) |
Office Hours: Tuesdays (7) Thursdays (7) Also available by appointment (email) |
TA Office (Rm. 309) Hours: Mondays (5) Wednesdays (5) |
Course lecturesAugust 24th Course Introduction 29th
Introduction to Virtual
Environments, Sutherland papers
September
6th History of VR, Brooks papers
8th History of VR
13th Seeing 3D from 2D, Hodges
paper
15th - Seeing 3D from 2D, Tour of
GMALab
20th - Seeing 3D from 2D, CAVE + PIT
paper
22nd - Quaternions 27th Visual Display 29th
- Visual Display, Flying+Grabbing+Scaling
paper October 4th
- Visual Display, HMD Displays, Locomotion papers 6th
- HMD Displays 11th
HMD Displays, grabbing and WIM
paper 13th
REVE visit 18th
Output Devices, NAVE visit, project 1
due 20th
Output Devices 25th
Output Devices 27th
- Tracking November 1st
no class, Midterm due 3rd
Tracking 8th
Tracking 10th
Input devices 14th
Project #2 due 15th Tracking, demo of project #2 17th Presence 22nd
no class 24th
Thanksgiving 29th
Presence December 1st
Presence, Interaction 6th FINAL PROJECTS! |
Course topics (content)Acknowledgement:
The lecture notes are based on those created by Dr. Larry Hodges at the Introduction to Virtual Environments Virtual
Reality Technology - Burdea Chapters 2,7,8,9 |
Class ProjectsProject #1 Due October 4th, October 18th Project #1 stereo and ARToolkit demo OBJ file reader + GL tutorials Midterm Due November 1st Project #2 Due November 14th Project #3 Due December 6th |
Important Links |
August
31st - 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 6th 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 6th 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 13th - [APPLICATION]
Treating Psychological and Physical Disorders with VR
(original
http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/vrlab/publications/papers/2001_ieee_cga.pdf)
Hodges, L.F.,
Presenter: Omer Shahid
September 13th - [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 20th [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 20th [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)
Presenter: Paul Wonderly
September 27th [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 27th [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 4th [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 4th [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 11th [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 11th [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 18th [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 18th [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,
Presenter: Young In Yeo
October 25th [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 25th Chapter 3: Output Devices
Presenter: Aaron Kotranza
November 1st NO
November 8th [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 8thth Chapter 2 - Input Devices
Presenter: Rebecca Wells
November 15th [RESEARCH] A Touring Machine: Prototyping 3D Mobile Augmented Reality Systems for Exploring the Urban Environment (Feiner)
S. Feiner, B. MacIntyre, T. Hφllerer, 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),
Presenter: John Quarles
November 22nd
(THANKSGIVING)
November 29th [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,
Presenter:
November 29th [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