CS 498: Virtual Reality

Course Calendar

Fall 2018 Lecture Recordings |Fall 2016 Lecture Recordings

Class #	Date	Lecture Topic	Materials	Assignments
Week 1
1	Aug 27	Course overview, defining VR, historical perspective	LaValle, Ch 1 (book)
2	Sep 3	Bird's-eye view: VR hardware	LaValle, Ch 2.1 and 2.2
Week 2
3	Sep 3	No Lecture
4	Sep 5	Bird's-eye view: Sensation and perception	LaValle, Ch 2.3, 3
Week 3
5	Sep 10	Geometric modeling, linear transformations, 2D rigid-body transformations	LaValle, Sec 3.2, 3.3
6	Sep 12	3D rotations, yaw, pitch, roll, quaternions, conversions	LaValle, Ch 3.2,3.3
Week 4
7	Sep 17	Quaternions, conversion, Local vs Global coordinate frames. Homogeneous transforms	LaValle, Ch 3.2,3.3
8	Sep 19	Intro. viewing transforms; Eye, canonical view, and viewport transform	LaValle, Ch 3.4, 3.5
Week 5
9	Sep 24	Eye, canonical view, and viewport transforms	LaValle, Ch 3
10	Sep 26	Light and Optics	LaValle, Ch 4
Week 6
11	Oct 1	Human Vision : Physiology	LaValle, Ch 5
12	Oct 3	Human Vision: Perception	LaValle, Ch 6
Week 7
	Oct 8	No Lecture	Practice Exam
	Oct 10	No lecture
Week 8
13	Oct 15	Best Practices in Unity & VR
14	Oct 17	Simulation in VR; Towards Realism	LaValle, Ch. 6
Week 9
15	Oct 22	Color	LaValle, Ch. 6
16	Oct 24	Visual Rendering	LaValle, Ch. 7
Week 10
17	Oct 29	Visual Rendering	LaValle, Ch 7
18	Oct 31	Visual Rendering	LaValle, Ch 7
Week 11
19	Nov 5	Visual Rendering for Virtual Reality	LaValle, Ch 7
20	Nov 7	Motion in Real and Virtual Worlds	LaValle, Ch. 8
Week 12
21	Nov 12	Motion in Real and Virtual Worlds	LaValle, Ch 8, 12
22	Nov 14	Tracking	LaValle, Ch 9
Week 13
	Nov 19	No Lecture - Thanksgiving Break
21	Nov 21	No Lecture - Thanksgiving Break
Week 14
23	Nov 26	Tracking	LaValle, Ch 9
24	Nov 28	Current Research in VR
Week 15
25	Dec 3	Exam review	Practice Exam
26	Dec 5	No Lecture
Week 16
27	Dec 10	No Lecture (work on the project)
28	Dec 12	No Lecture (work on the project)
Week 17