| Prerequisites: | None |
| Registration Requirements | Students registered only for 476 and not for 478 will
be deregistered Students registered only for 478 and not for 476 will be deregistered |
| Co-requisites: | None |
| Textbook: Lab Book |
Burdea and Coiffet, Virtual
Reality Technology, 2nd
Edition,
Wiley, 2003. On book CD |
| Class Schedule: | Tuesday and Thursday 1:40 pm -3:00 pm, CoRE 538 |
| Lab Schedule | Labs in CoRE 535 TBD Section 1 W 5:00-
8:00
pm, Section 2 TH 3:20 - 6:20 pm No labs first week Lab submission page: http://hercules.rutgers.edu/vrclass/cgi-bin/handin.pl |
| Instructor: | Dr.
Grigore (Greg) Burdea, ECE Dept., Core 721,
burdea@caip.rutgers.edu, tel. 732-445-5309. Office Hours: Tu, Th, 3:30-4:30 pm |
| TA and Lab Assistant: | Ms. Meghan Huber CoRE 737 mehuber@caip.rutgers.edu mhuber@eden.rutgers.edu |
Course Syllabus (PPT
class
notes updated after lecture)
| Week of (1/19) | Introduction; Virtual Reality Input Devices |
| Week of (1/26) | Virtual
Reality Input Devices; |
| Week of (2/2) | Virtual
Reality Output Devices; |
| Week of (2/9) | Virtual Reality Output Devices; |
| Week of (2/16) | Computing Architectures for VR; |
| Week of (2/23) | Computing Architectures for VR; |
| Week of (3/2) | Modeling; |
| Week of (3/9) | Modeling and Review
session Extra
reading |
| Week of (3/16) | Spring break - No classes |
| Week of (3/23) | Programming in VR |
| Week of (3/30) | Programming
in
VR, Human Factors |
| Week of (4/6) | Human factors |
| Week of (4/13) | Traditional
Applications |
| Week of (4/20) | Traditional
Applications; |
| Week of (4/27) | Emmerging
Applications, Review session |
| Final |
Location TBD
|
Grading Criteria for
476
Class
Quizzes: 15%
Midterm: 40% Final: 45% (Closed book)
Grading Criteria for 478
Lab
Simulation Project: 100% of Lab grade (1/2 for
labs, 1/2 for Final Project)
Prizes: TBA.
Grading Criteria for 571
Class
Quizzes: 10%
Midterm: 30% Final: 30% (Closed book)
Lab: 30%
Grading policy: Absense on Midterm, Final or cheating leads to faling
the course.
| Ranking | Project Title | Students |
| 1 (BEST SIMULATION) | House simulator |
Gollamudi, Raviteja and Manaois, Shaun |
| 2 | Ski 3D |
Mariano, Matthew and Blevins, Matthew |
| 3 | Virtual Raceway | Hawalka, Shawn |
| Ranking | Project Title | Students |
| 1 (BEST SIMULATION) | Alpha Ori Space Station |
Morrow, Kira |
| 2 | 3D Local File Navigation |
Cornea, Nicu and You, Ju Hyun |
| 2 (tie) |
Infinite Townscape |
Fensterheim, Devin |
| 3 | Bar and Billiards |
Neubauer, Michael and Tokayer, Jason |
| Ranking | Project Title | Students |
| 1 (BEST SIMULATION) | Castle | Bhoot, Samrat and Yamin, Sheshin |
| 2 | Virtual Helicopter Simulation | Aleksic, Goran |
| 3 | SERC Reading Room | Kotecha, Chintan |
| Ranking | Project Title | Students |
| 1 (BEST SIMULATION) | A Virtual Antarctica | Erickson, Karen |
| 2 | Firework at the groundstand | Clarke, Patrick |
| 3 | Virtual Solar System | Lewis, Jeffrey |
| 3 | Virtual Piano | Chiarulli, Nicholas |
| 4 | Virtual Mall | Baez, Kelvin and Gonzalez, Martza |
| Ranking | Project Title | Students |
| 1 (BEST SIMULATION) | House | ChiWei Yung |
| 2 | Spooky Temple | Alexander C. Wu |
| 3 | Virtual Suite | Jonathan Chain and Daniel P. Lee |
| 4 | Amusement Park | Jeffrey Dwoskin |
| 5 | Sand Box | Daneyand Singley |
| 6 | Small Town | James Tuozzo |
Conferences:
IEEE VR 2009 (http://conferences.computer.org/vr/2009/index.html)
Virtual Rehabilitation International
Conference (www.virtual-rehab.org)
VRML On-line Reference Books
The
Annotated VRML2.0 Reference Manual
VRML97-ISO/IEC14772-1:1997
VRML
REPOSITORY AT VRLAB
Computer usage
Use of Toolkit package - VRML.
ABET Category content
Engineering Science: 2.0 credits; Enginering
Design: 1.0 credit