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AD-803 (B) · Augmented & Virtual Reality/Official Syllabus

Augmented & Virtual Reality (AD-803 (B)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Introduction to Virtual Reality

  • Introduction to Virtual Reality
  • VR Basics
  • History of VR
  • VR paradigms
  • Collaboration
  • Virtual reality systems
  • Representation
  • User interaction
  • The Geometry of Virtual Worlds, Geometric Models
  • Changing Position and Orientation
  • Axis, Angle Representations of Rotation
  • Viewing Transformations
  • Chaining the Transformations
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Unit 2

Motion in Real and Virtual Worlds

  • Velocities and Accelerations
  • The Vestibular System
  • Physics in the Virtual World
  • Mismatched Motion and Vection
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Unit 3

Applying Virtual Reality

  • Virtual reality: the medium
  • Form and genre
  • What makes an application a good candidate for VR
  • Promising application fields
  • Demonstrated benefits of virtual reality
  • More recent trends in virtual reality application development
  • A framework for VR application development
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Unit 4

Augmented Reality

  • Terminology
  • Simple augmented reality
  • Augmented reality as an emerging technology
  • Augmented reality applications
  • Marker detection
  • Marker pose
  • Marker types and identification: Template markers, 2D bar-code markers
  • Imperceptible markers: Image markers, Infrared markers
  • Miniature markers
  • Discussion on marker use
  • General marker detection application
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Unit 5

AR Development & Applications

  • User interfaces
  • Avoiding physical contacts
  • Practical experiences with head- mounted displays
  • Authoring and dynamic content
  • AR applications and future visions
  • How to design an AR application
  • Technology adoption and acceptance
  • Where to use augmented reality

Reference Books

  • Virtual Reality
  • Understanding Virtual Reality: Interface, Application and Design
  • Developing Virtual Reality Applications: Foundations of Effective Design
  • Theory and applications of marker, based augmented reality
  • Virtual & Augmented Reality For Dummies
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