This is the home page for the course TNM086 VR Technology. It contains current schedule and information about the course. All material distributed during the course will be linked to from this page (or there will be a description on where to find it).
The teaching in the course is based on lectures, with optional complementary reading, and laboratory exercises. To complete the course the students have to pass an oral examination, and complete and demonstrate the laboratory exercises.
| Karljohan Lundin Palmerius | Giving lectures and oral examination, and supervising and examinating laboratory exercises. | Web |
| 00 | Course Information | ||
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| 01 | Introduction and Human Factors | ||
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| Attention video — follow the instructions! | Youtube | ||
| "Virtual Reality: How Much Immersion is Enough?", Doug A. Bowman and Ryan P. McMahan | |||
| "Being there: The experience of presence in mediated environments", Wijnand Ijsselsteijn and Giusseppe Riva | |||
| "A Bayesian View on Multimodal Cue Integration", Marc Ernst, 2006 | |||
| 02 | Display Systems | ||
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| "Autostereoscopic 3D Displays", Niel A. Dodgson, ACM, 2005 | |||
| "Projected Imagery in Your 'Office of the Future'", Greg Welch, Henry Fuchs, Ramesh Raskar, Herman Towles, Michael S. Brown, IEEE CG&A, 2000 | |||
| "Designing and Building the PIT: a Head-Tracked Stereo Workspace for Two Users", Kevin Arthur, Timothy Preston, Russell M. Taylor II, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., Mary C. Whitton and William V. Wright | |||
| "More on Eye Tracking (or Lack Thereof) in Oculus Rift" — a discussion on camera positioning in HMDs | Youtube | ||
| 03 | VR Software Principles | ||
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| H3D API Manual | Web | ||
| OpenSceneGraph Quick Start Guide | |||
| OpenSceneGraph Reference Manual | Web | ||
| 04 | Tracking | ||
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| 05 | Augmented Reality | ||
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| "A Review of Current, Complete Augmented Reality Solutions", Ali Samini, Karljohan Lundin Palmerius and Patric Ljung, in Proceedings of International Conference on Cyberworlds, 2021 | |||
| "Spatial Augmented Reality: Merging Real and Virtual Worlds", Bimber, Oliver, and Ramesh Raskar, AK Peters/CRC Press, 2019. | |||
| 06 | Haptics | ||
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| "Review of designs for haptic data visualization", Sabrina Paneels and Jonathan C. Roberts, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2009 | |||
| "Haptic Rendering: Introductory Concepts", Kenneth Salisbury, Francois Conti and Federico Barbagli | |||
| 07 | Interaction & Navigation | ||
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| "Moving Objects In Space: Exploiting Proprioception In Virtual-Environment Interaction", Mark R. Mine, Frederick P. Brooks Jr. and Carlo H. Sequin | |||
| "A Survey on 3D Virtual Object Manipulation: From the Desktop to Immersive Virtual Environments", D. Mendes, F.M. Caputo, A. Giachetti, A. Ferreira and J. Jorge, Computer Graphics Forum, 38: 21-45, 2019 | |||
| "Virtual Environment Interaction Techniques", Mark R. Mine | |||
| 08 | Audio in VR | ||
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| HRTF example | Web | ||
| Harpex HRTF examples | Web | ||
| Aureal real-time simulated HRTF | Youtube | ||
| RAYA real-time audio raytracing | Youtube | ||
| "Design and user evaluation of a spatial audio system for blind users", S. H. Kurniawan, A. Sporka, V. Nemec and P. Slavik | |||
| "Localization using nonindividualized head-related transfer functions", E. Wenzel, M. Arruda, D. Kistler and F. Wightman, 1993 | |||
| 09 | Summary, Applications and Future | PDFPDF | |
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| The Gadget Show - Ultimate Battlefield 3 Simulator - Build & Test | webm | ||
| Mike Alger: VR Interface Design Manifesto | Youtube | ||
| Mike Alger: VR Interface Design Pre-Visualisation Methods | Youtube |
During the scheduled time there will be at least one lab-assistant present in the lab, however you are expected to do a substantial amount of work also between these sessions. Since there is a limited set of hardware you will have to be flexible and utilize free hours in your schedule to finish your assignments.
To gain access to the VR labs it is necessary for each student to have viewed an instruction video, read the rules of the lab, and then completed an online access application form. Only then will access be added to your key-card.
Students may be allowed to borrow equipment for projects or demonstrations. Such a loan is governed by the following agreement: Låneavtal.
After completing the access application form, access will be granted to the booking form. This can take anything from a day to several weeks.
The VR lab is shared between courses TNM093 and TNM086. Since we only have a limited amount of equipment, this is in short supply. Please be equitable in your use of the equipment.
Good etiquette declares that you should
Basic instructions on how to use the equipment is given in the instruction video that all students must watch before given access, however the more detailed step-by-step instructions necessary to actually run software and tools are provided in written form. They can be found both on the shared drive, linked above, and in a binder in the VR lab.
| Lab 1 | Scene Graphs | instructions | files | models | |
| Lab 2 | VR Workbench | instructions | files | models | start.bat |
| Lab 3 | Haptics | instructions |