Course Catalog 2012-2013
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Course Catalog 2012-2013

SGN-5406 Virtual Reality, 5 cr

Additional information

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Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Olli Suominen, Atanas Boev

Lessons

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

 

 

 
SGN-5406 2012-01 Monday 14 - 17, TC219

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  
Lecture slides   Lecture slides              English  

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Correspondence of content

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

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
SGN-5406 2012-01        

Last modified10.09.2012