Course Catalog 2009-2010 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Ismo Rakkolainen

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 1 : Monday 14 - 17, TC163 Tuesday 14 - 17, TC163 Wednesday 11 - 14, TC163 Thursday 11 - 14, TC163 Friday 12 - 15, 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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Learning outcomes

An introductory course to virtual reality. Gives the basic concepts to understand and evaluate VR systems, applications and simulators and their 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 and output devices. Trackers, navigation and gestural 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 OF THE COURSE! THE LATEST INFORMATION CAN ONLY BE FOUND HERE: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~ira/opetus/vr2009.html

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	An introductory course to virtual reality.	Lectures Practical works	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	19.01.2010
Modifier	Ismo Rakkolainen