Virtual Reality 2025-2026    1st Semester

Instructor:

Conf. Dr. Rareș Boian <rares at cs.ubbcluj.ro>

Syllabus

Online Communication and Collaboration

• Join the Teams team with code 9q1n0f9
• For announcements watch:
  • Your university email @stud.ubbcluj.ro
  • Microsoft Teams General channel.
• The discussion forums will be in Microsoft Teams.

Graded Work

• Projects
  • Rendering (R): ellipsoid ray tracing and volumetric ray sampling
  • VR application (A): project on a given theme, with specified scope and content

Final grade calculation

• To get a final grade, all projects must be presented.
• Presentations will include in-depth questions about your solutions.
• Project delays result in a 1-point penalty per week.
• Penalties are calculated from the last Teams assignment solution upload, not including vacation weeks.
• Grade calculation formula:
  
  
  Grade = 1 + 0.4*R + 0.5*A

Re-examination

• Present the projects not yet presented
• Grades will take into account the delay penalty above
• To improve a project grade, discuss extra work with the instructor

Weekly Schedule

Week	Lecture	Laboratory	Projects
			R	A
1: Sep 29	Ray tracing without lighting	Project development
2: Oct 6	Ray tracing with lighting
3: Oct 13	Representing positions and orientations	Project development
4: Oct 20	Scene graph. Unity 3D introduction
5: Oct 27	Generic VR application architecture	Project development
6: Nov 3	VR devices and applications overview
7: Nov 10	VR application design	Project development and grading
8: Nov 17	Interaction. Collision detection
9: Nov 24	Physics	Project development and grading
10: Dec 1 (Mon)	Animation. Terrain generation
11: Dec 8	Open GL shaders (GLSL)	Project development and grading
12: Dec 15	Evaluating VR apps. Human factors
- : Dec 22	Vacation
- : Dec 29	Vacation
13: Jan 5 (Tue,Wed)	Project development and grading	Project development and grading
14: Jan 12	Project development and grading