Course Catalog 2008-2009 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Artur Lugmayr, Ismo Rakkolainen

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 2 : Thursday 14 - 16, TC131 Tuesday 10 - 12, TC163

Requirements

Final examination and assignment.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

An introductory course to virtual reality. Gives the basic concepts to understand and evaluate VR systems, applications and simulators and its impact on future digital systems and user interfaces. Suits for students of all fields of science.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Introduction to virtual reality. What is virtual reality. The basic components of a virtual reality system.	Human factors in VR. Examples of VR applications.	History of VR.
2.	Input an output devices. Trackers, navigation and gesture interfaces. Graphics, three-dimensional sound and haptic displays.
3.	Computing architectures for virtual reality.
4.	Basic information of VR modeling and VR programming.

Evaluation criteria for the course

The student has to get at least half of the maximum points from the final exam and a project work must be accepted.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	"Virtual Reality Technology"	Grigore C. Burdea and Philippe Coiffet	0-471-36089-9		John Wiley & Sons, Inc.		English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

Additional information

PLEASE CHECK OUT THE COURSE HOME-PAGE FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND DETAILS OF THE SCHEDULE! THE LATEST INFORMATION (for 2009-2010) CAN ONLY BE FOUND AT: http://namu.cs.tut.fi/index.php/teaching/teaching_virtual_reality_course.html

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1		Lectures Practical works	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	12.02.2009
Modifier	Ismo Rakkolainen