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22C:297 Seminar on Virtual Environments FALL 1994
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22C:297 Seminar on Virtual Environments FALL 1994
Professor: Jim Cremer
Class hours: MWF 2:30, 113 MacLean Hall
Class mailing list: ve@herky.cs.uiowa.edu
Tentative class schedule
- Week 1 (8/22,24): Intro, organization. Video of J. Lanier talk.
- Week 2 (8/29,31): History of VE/VR. Video of B. Laurel talk and others.
- Week 3 (9/7,9/9): NO CLASS MONDAY - Labor Day. Bonakdarian, Stevenson - Well-known VR/VE projects - GROPE, CAVE
- Week 4 (9/12-16): Existing systems and medical applications - Kingery/BrickNet, Withey/Virtual Sand Box, Dea/Eye surgery
- Week 5 (9/19-23): High-performance graphics - Chandra/PixelFlow, Gadiraju/Reality Engine, Kim/Priority Rendering for VR
- Week 6 (9/28,30): High-performance graphics - general issues - Booth, Cremer
- Week 6 (9/29) SPECIAL LECTURE - Prof. David Pratt - Naval Postgraduate School - NPSNET
- Week 7 (10/3,5): Managing comlexity/database issues - Booth, Thongphasuk
- Week 7 (10/7) SPECIAL LECTURE - Prof. Joseph Bates - Carnegie
Mellon University - The Synergy of AI, Art, and Interactive Entertainment
- Week 8 (10/10,12) NO CLASS FRIDAY. Distributed systems/real-time issues - SIMNET, DIS, NPSNET, VEOS - Rathi, X. Chen
- Week 9 (10/17,19) NO CLASS FRIDAY Henning, Choi - Simulation support (dynamics, collisions, contact)
- Week 10 (10/28) NO CLASS M,W> X. Li, Chow - Start human-computer interaction, user-interfaces
- Week 11 (10/31-11/4) Finish HCI/UI, Start behavior/scenario - Ahmad, Booth
- Week 12 (11/7-11) Behavior/scenario - Price, X. Yang
- Week 13 (11/14) NO CLASS WEDNESDAY,FRIDAY. Willemson
- Week 14 (11/21) NO CLASS WEDNESDAY,FRIDAY. Ethics/Human factors - Hunt
- Week 15 (11/28) MONDAY - Human Factors - Mouw. WED/FRI - Project presentations
- Week 16 (12/5) Project presentations, NO CLASS WED/FRI
- FINALS WEEK - Remaining project presentations
A few papers:
Research Directions in Virtual Environments
- G. Bishop and H. Fuchs (co-chairs). Report of an NSF Invitational Workshop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March, 1992.
WWW Virtual Environment/Virtual Reality Resources:
Results of some bibliographic searches done by class members: