Advanced Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments

4930/6930, Section 5538/5341

Virtual Environments

Spring 2009

Leigh Hall 0142

Professor: Benjamin Lok

CSE 342, 392-1492, lok@cise.ufl.edu

Course Hours:

Tuesday, 9th period, 4:05-4:55 PM

Thursday, 9 – 10th periods, 4:05-6 PM

Office Hours:

Tuesday, 8th period

Thursday, 8th period

Available by appointment (email)

Lectures:

January

Week 1: 6^th – Course Introduction, Introduction to Virtual Environments, 8^th – Introduction to Virtual Environments, 333 lab tour, Reading: Sutherland papers (Due 1/22)

Week 2: 13^th – Tracking,15^th – Tracking, Project 1 Assigned, Reading: Brooks papers (Due 1/29)

Week 3: 20^th– Tracking, 22^nd – Tracking (quiz1 on Sutherland), Reading: No Silver Bullet paper (Due 2/5)

Week 4: 27^th – 3D from 2D images, 29^th – 3D from 2D images (quiz2 on Brooks), Reading: Cave paper (Due 2/19)

February

Week 5: 3^rd – 3D from 2D images, 5^th – 3D from 2D images (quiz3 on No Silver Bullet), Reading: UNC Pit paper (Due 2/26)

Week 6: 10^th – 3D from 2D images, 12^th – Project 1 Presentations

Week 7: 17^th – Project 1 Presentations, Project 2 Assigned , 19^th – Interfaces (quiz4 on Cave)

Week 8: 24^th – Interfaces, 26^th – Interfaces (quiz5 on UNC Pit), Reading: Usoh-Presence Questionnaires paper (Due 3/19)

March

Week 9: 3^rd – NO CLASS (work on project 2), 6^th 2 PM– Project 2 Presentations, Project 3 Assigned, Reading: Touring Machine paper (Due 3/26)

Week 10: SPRING BREK

Week 11: 17^th – NO CLASS (Work on project 3), 19^th – Presence

Week 12: 24^th – Presence (quiz6 on Usoh-Presence Questionnaires paper), 26^th – Project 3 Phase A Demos (quiz7 on Touring Machine), Reading: Cybertherapy (Due 4/9)

Week 13: 31^st – Interaction Augment & Mixed Reality, 2^nd – Project 3 Presentations, Project 4 Assigned, Reading: Locomotion paper (Due 4/16)

April

Week 14: 7^th – Interaction, 9^th– Interaction, Mixed Reality (quiz8 on Cybertherapy)

Week 15: 14^th – Virtual Characters, 16^th – Virtual Characters (quiz9 on Locomotion)

Week 16: 21^st – Project 4 Presentations

Assignments:

Project #1 – Tracking – Due: February 12^th, 2009

Project #2 - Displays - Due: March 6^th, 2009

Project #3 – Presence - Due: April 2^nd, 2009

Project #4 – Interfaces - Due: April 21^st, 2009

Acknowledgement: Some of lecture notes are based on those created by Dr. Larry Hodges at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with his permission. Many many thanks!

Info:

Syllabus, Advertising Flyer for Class

Readings:

Sutherland - 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.

Brooks – 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.

– 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.

Welch – [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.

Cruz-Neira – [HARDWARE] Surround-Screen Projection-Based Virtual Reality: The Design & Implementation of the CAVE

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.

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

UNC Pit – [LOCOMOTION] Walking > Walking-in-Place > Flying, in Virtual Environments (Usoh)

http://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.

Presence Questionnaires – [PRESENCE] Using Presence Questionnaires in Reality (Usoh)
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/m.slater/Papers/questionnaire-paper.pdf

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.

Feiner – [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

Original file: http://monet.cs.columbia.edu/publications/iswc97.pdf

Cybertherapy - [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.

Locomotion – [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:

– [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.