CS 498: Virtual Reality

Course Calendar

Fall 2016 Video Recordings

Class #	Date	Lecture Topic	Materials	Assignments
Week 1
1	Aug 28	Course overview, defining VR, historical perspective	LaValle, Ch 1
2	Aug 30	Bird's-eye view: VR hardware	LaValle, Ch 2.1
Week 2
	Sep 4	Labor Day		MP1 out
3	Sep 6	Bird's-eye view: VR software, Sensation and perception	LaValle, Ch 2.2
Week 3
4	Sep 11	Projects overview ,Bird's-eye view: Sensation and perception	LaValle, Ch 3.1, 3.2	MP 1 due, MP2 out
5	Sep 13	Geometric modeling, linear transformations, 2D rigid-body transformations	LaValle, Sec 3.2, 3.3
Week 4
6	Sep 18	3D rotations, yaw, pitch, roll, quaternions, conversions	LaValle, Ch 3.2,3.3	MP2.1 due
7	Sep 20	Quaternions, conversion, Local vs Global coordinate frames. Homogeneous transforms	LaValle, Ch 3.2,3.3
Week 5
8	Sep 25	Homogeneous transforms	LaValle, Ch 3.4, 3.5
9	Sep 27	Intro. viewing transforms; Eye, canonical view, and viewport transforms.	LaValle, Ch 3
Week 6
10	Oct 2	Eye, canonical view, and viewport transforms.	LaValle, Ch 3	MP3 & MP4 out
	Oct 4	Invited lecture by prof. Steven LaValle		Project proposal & MP2 due on Oct 6
Week 7
11	Oct 9	Exam review
	Oct 10	Evening Exam 1	7:00pm-8:30pm	A-L: MSEB 100 M-Z: DCL 1320
	Oct 11	No lecture		MP3 due on Oct 13
Week 8
12	Oct 16	Light propagation and properties; Lenses, diopter;	LaValle, Ch 4
13	Oct 18	Real and virtual images; optical aberrations; Structure of human eye; photoreceptors	LaValle, Ch. 4
Week 9
14	Oct 23	Optical aberrations; Structure of human eye; photoreceptors	LaValle, Ch. 4
15	Oct 25	Visual pathway; eye movements; implications of physiology on VR	LaValle, Ch. 4
Week 10
16	Oct 30	Visual pathway; mplications of physiology on VR;Perception of depth	LaValle, Ch. 4
	Nov 1	MP4 review	LaValle, Ch. 4
Week 11
17	Nov 6	Perception of motion; Stroboscopic apparent motion; Implications on VR: frame rates, fixing judder	LaValle, Ch. 5
	Nov 8	Implications on VR: frame rates, fixing judder; Microsoft Hololense Invited Lecture	LaValle, Ch 5
Week 12
18	Nov 13	Implications on VR: frame rates, pixel size; Visual rendering; Shading; Rasterization	LaValle, Ch 7.1-7.4	MP4 due
	Nov 15	No lecture	LaValle, Ch 7.2-7.4
Week 13
	Nov 20	Fall Break
	Nov 22	Fall Break
Week 14
	Nov 27	Rendering Tips with Unity, invited lecture by Mike Peretz	LaValle, Ch 7
19	Nov 29	Texture mapping; Distortion correction; Improving Latency and Frame Rates	LaValle, Ch 7	MP4.2 due on Nov 11@11am
Week 15
	Dec 4	Invited Lecture: VR for Good, by Katherine Mimnaugh
	Dec 6	No lecture
Week 16
	Dec 11	No lecture
	Dec 13	No lecture
	Dec 13	Evening Exam 2	7:00pm-8:50pm	A-L: SIEBL 1404 M-Z:DCL 1320
Week 17
	Dec 20	Open House: Final Project Presentation	5:00pm-10:00pm