Virtual Reality 2024-2025    1st Semester

Instructor:

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

Syllabus

Online Communication and Collaboration

• Join the Teams team with code gnqfjab
• 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

• In order to get a final grade, all projects must be presented.
• Project delays result in a 1 point penalty per week, 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

Weekly Schedule

Week	Lecture	Laboratory	Projects
			R	A
1: Sep 30	Ray tracing without lighting	Project development
2: Oct 7	Ray tracing with lighting
3: Oct 14	Representing positions and orientations	Project development
4: Oct 21	Scene graph. Unity 3D introduction
5: Oct 28	Generic VR application architecture	Project development and grading
6: Nov 4	VR devices and applications overview
7: Nov 11	VR application design	Project development and grading
8: Nov 18	Interaction. Collision detection
9: Nov 25	Physics	Project development and grading
10: Dec 2	Animation. Terrain generation
11: Dec 9	Open GL shaders (GLSL)	Project development and grading
12: Dec 16	Evaluating VR apps. Human factors
- : Dec 23	Vacation
- : Dec 30	Vacation
13: Jan 6	Project development and grading	Project development and grading
14: Jan 13	Project development and grading