Assignment

Assignment Sheet

Labs

Lab 1 X3D exercises; X3D examples; Models

Labs 5-> OpenSceneGraph (pdf); html; sample project as .zip

• Open SceneGraph tutorials page

Seminar Presentations

Details of the papers from which you should choose can be accessed here and here is the allocation of people to groups

Lab Visits

Notes sheet here

Lectures

1. Introduction (slides)
   What's Real about Virtual Reality? Brookes, 1999
2. X3D (slides) and some extra materials about using X3D
   • Web3D Consortium
   • NIST X3D/VRML plugin detector
   • X3D - Extensible 3D Graphics for Web Authors - a book on using X3D by Don Brutzman and Leonard Daly, published by Morgan Kaufmann 2007
   • The slidesets associated with the X3D book
3. Human factors (slides)
   • Human Factors Issues in Virtual Environments: A Review of the Literature. Stanney, Mourant, Kennedy, 1998
   • A Discussion of Cybersickness in Virtual Environments, LaViola, 2000
4. Sound (slides)
   3D sound for virtual reality and multi-media, Begault, 2000 Note: this is a book, so just scan through it
5. Display systems (slides)
   • Autostereoscopic 3D Displays, Neil Dodgson, 2005
   • Surround-Screen Projection-Based Virtual Reality: The Design and Implementation of the CAVE. Cruz-Neira, Sandin, DeFanti, 1993
6. Input devices and Interaction (slides)
   • Interfacing the LEAP sensor to the Unity Game Engine and to OpenSceneGraph
   • WiiGle - an environment to record gestures, calculate features, train classifiers, and use the Wiimote for online gesture recognition
   • WiiGee - a java-based gesture library for the WiiMote
   • Miniature 6-DOF inertial system for tracking HMDs, Eric Foxlin, Michael Harrington and Yury Altshuler, 1998
   • Gesture Based Interaction, Billinghurst, 2002
   • Virtual Environment Interaction Techniques. Milne, 1995
7. Graphics for VEs (slides)
8. OpenSceneGraph slides
   • OpenSceneGraph site
   • OpenSceneGraph Wiki
9. Modelling (slides); More modelling: L-systems and Cities (slides)
   • ActivePoints: Acquisition, Processing and Navigation of Large Outdoor Environments. Hui Xu, Baoquan Chen, 2003
   • FEATURE EXTRACTION AND 3D CITY MODELING USING AIRBORNE LIDAR AND HIGH-RESOLUTION DIGITAL ORTHOPHOTOS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
10. Physically-based modelling (slides1) (slides2)
    An introduction to physically-based modelling
11. Haptics (slides)
12. Presence (slides)
    • Measuring Presence in Virtual Environments: A Presence Questionnaire, Witmer and Singer, 1998
    • Measuring Presence: A Response to the Witmer and Singer Presence Questionnaire, Mel Slater, 1998
    • Being There: The experience of presence in mediated environments. Wijnand IJSSELSTEIJN and Giuseppe RIVA, 2003
    • Immersion vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality and Literary Theory. Ryan, 1994
13. Avatars and Agents 1 (slides)
14. Avatars and Agents 2 (slides)
15. Augmented reality (slides)
    A Survey of Augmented Reality, Ronald T. Azuma, 1997
16. Distributed VEs (slides)
    • Second Life
    • 3DS max plugin for generating models that can be imported into Second Life
17. Volumetric rendering
    • Computer-Generated Holography as a Generic Display Technology, Chris Slinger, Colin Cameron, Maurice Stanley, 2005
    • Volumetric 3D Displays and Application Infrastructure. Favalora, 2005
18. Applications (slides)
19. Conclusions (slides)