INFO 5900 Spring2023

INFO 5900: Virtual Reality and its Applications
Spring Semester 2023 Course Information

Instructor: Dr. Sharad Sharma
Department of Information Science
University of Norrth Texas
E-MAIL: sharad.sharma@unt.edu

Instructor Website: https://sharadonly.github.io/

CLASS HOURS: Wednesday: 5:30 PM - 8:20 PM,
OFFICE HOURS: Wednesday: 3:00 - 5:00 PM, or by appointment
OFFICE LOCATION: Discovery Park, Room E292C

Final Group Projects

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The goal of this course is to introduce students to Virtual Reality (VR) hardware, software, and provide an opportunity for them to apply this knowledge to applications for education, visualization, and games. This course applies cutting-edge VR technology currently available in academia and industry. Topics include input devices, output devices, computer graphics principles for VR, geometric modeling principles for VR, human factors in VR, data visualization in VR, traditional and emerging applications in VR. Students learn the value of visualization and how to best leverage visualization methods in VR. Students will design, model, and program the VR environment by developing a complete VR application as a group project.

Text Book

Burdea, Grigore C., and Coiffet, Philippe. Virtual Reality Technology, 2nd ed. Wiley-Interscience, 2003.
Selly S. Hale, Kay M. Stanney. (2014). Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation, and Applications, Second Edition, CRC Press. ISBN 978042909871

Course Related Links

All the lecture slides are at Canvas

* Final Group Projects

* Presentation Flyer

* Course Flyer

Syllabus

* Assignments

* Course Topic Details

Approved projects

* Project Proposal Report

Final Project Report

* Project Deliverables and Evaluation

Vizard helpful links

Vizard 7

Weekly Time Schedule

Dates	Title	Due
18-Jan	Introduction
25-Jan	3Ds Max	Assignment 1: 3Ds Max + Google Sketch Up Due: 8 Feb
1-Feb	VR Input Devices
8-Feb	Python Programming (Vizard)	Assignment 2: Vizard Due: 22 Feb
15-Feb	VR Input Devices, Vizard/ Python Programming	Assignment 3: Vizard 2 Due: 1 March
22-Feb	Unity Programming: Unity, Unity Interface, Unity UI Interface, Interface Overview, survival-shooter-tutorial	Assignment 4: Unity3D, Due: 8 March
1-Mar	VR Output Devices	Assignment 5: Unity3D, Due: 22 March
8-Mar	Mid Term Exam	Unity 3D UI Player Settings , Slider, Button, Health and Damage
15-Mar	Spring Break
22-Mar	Computer Graphics Principles for VR	Project Proposal Presentation & Report
29-Mar	Geometric Modeling Principles for VR
5-Apr	Human Factors in VR
12-Apr	Data Visualization
19-Apr	Traditional Applications in VR	Mid Project Demo
26-Apr	Emerging Applications in VR/Augmented Reality
3-May	Group Project Presentations/ Demo, Presentations.	Due date for Report
10-May	Final Exam