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SGN-5406 Virtual Reality, 5 cr

Person responsible

Stanislav Stankovic, Ismo Rakkolainen

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
 3 h/week
+3 h/week

 

 

 
SGN-5406 2010-01 Monday 14 - 17, 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  

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
SGN-5406 Virtual Reality, 5 cr 8004253 Virtual Reality, 3 cu  

Additional information

Please check out the course home page for the latest schedule, updates and details! The latest information can be found here: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~stankovs/vr2010.html
Suitable for postgraduate studies

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Last modified23.08.2010