Virtual Reality 2023-2024    1st Semester

Instructor:

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

Syllabus

News

2023-10-04: Welcome! Please read carefully all the details below.

Online Communication and Collaboration

• Login to Microsoft Teams using your university account (guidelines).
• Join the class with code 4nuctk3 (guidelines)
• For announcements watch all of the following
  • Department email @scs.ubbcluj.ro
  • University email @stud.ubbcluj.ro
  • News section on this site
  • Microsoft Teams General channel.
• The discussion forums will be in Microsoft Teams.

Graded Work

• Projects
  • Rendering (R): ellipsoid ray tracing and volumetric ray sampling (requires .NET Core 3.1 SDK)
  • Scene graph and physics (S): animated articulated avatar, physics trebuchet demolishing brick wall
  • Theme project (T): free implementation on a given theme

Final grade calculation

• In order to get a final grade, all projects must be presented.
• Project delays result in a 1 point penalty per week. The counting is extended all they way to the re-examination period, skipping the vacation
• Grade calculation formula:
  
  
  Grade = 1 + 0.3*R + 0.2*S + 0.4*T

Re-examination

• Present the projects not yet presented
• Grades will take into account the delay penalty above
• To improve a project grade, ask the instructor, ahead of time, for extra work on the project in question

Weekly Schedule

Week	Lecture	Laboratory	Projects
			R	S	T
1: Oct 2	Ray tracing without lighting	Project development
2: Oct 9	Ray tracing with lighting
3: Oct 16	Representing positions and orientations	Project development
4: Oct 23	Scene graph. Unity 3D introduction
5: Oct 31	Generic VR application architecture	Project development and grading
6: Nov 6	VR devices and applications overview
7: Nov 13	VR application design	Project development and grading
8: Nov 20	Interaction. Collision detection
9: Nov 27	Physics	Project development and grading
10: Dec 4	Animation. Terrain generation
11: Dec 11	Open GL shaders (GLSL)	Project development and grading
12: Dec 18	Evaluating VR apps. Human factors
- : Dec 25	Vacation
- : Jan 1	Vacation
13: Jan 8	Project development and grading	Project development and grading
14: Jan 15	Project development and grading

Resources

• Ray tracing
  • Lighting algorithm diagram