ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee - Virtual Environments

Teaching Remotely with Immersive Technology

wobbe — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 15:12:19 +0000

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Marla Schweppe, Rochester Institute of Technology

Some suggestions for teaching AR and VR online.

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Build your own VR system: an introduction to VR displays and cameras for hobbyists and educators

wobbe — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 17:15:32 +0000

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Gordon Wetzstein, Robert K Konrad, Nitish Padmanaban, and Hayato Ikoma, Stanford University

This comprehensive introduction to VR/AR technology teaches how to build a head-mounted display from scratch. Topics include the graphics pipeline, stereo rendering, lens distortion, head orientation tracking with inertial measurement units, positional tracking, spatial sound, and cinematic VR content creation.

This SIGGRAPH 2017 Course is available in several formats

SIGGRAPH University YouTube Channel (Slides + Audio)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmxfWygzRIU
SIGGRAPH 2017 Recorded Live Stream (YouTube, Split screen Speaker + Slides)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGubP8stHk
ACM Digital Library
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3084873.3084928

Full citation

Gordon Wetzstein, Robert Konrad, Nitish Padmanaban, and Hayato Ikoma. 2017. Build your own VR system: an introduction to VR displays and cameras for hobbyists and educators. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Courses (SIGGRAPH ’17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 14, 1–786. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3084873.3084928

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An Immersive Dynamic World

wobbe — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:55:55 +0000

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Wobbe F. Koning, Monmouth University

In this assignment, orginally included in Faculty Submitted Student Work (FSSW) 2018, students create a 360 degree render from a virtual world they created using Autodesk Maya.

The first PDF contains the Assignment description as submitted to FSSW.

The second PDF contains instruction slides on 360 degree video, and other subjects pertaining to the assignment.

A video with the rendered worlds, created buy students in Spring 2018, in 360 degree VR can be veiwed here:

AR 394: Immersive Dynamic Worlds (360° video)

A video representing the same project:

Immersive Dynamic Worlds

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AR394_ImmersiveWorld_Slides.pdf	1.38 MB

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VR Quick Start Guide

wobbe — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:18:05 +0000

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Wobbe F. Koning, Monmouth University

As faculty member teaching computer graphics and interactive techniques you may desire, or it may be required of you, to incorporate Virtual Reality (VR) into your curriculum. This page is intended to provide some pointers to get started. It is not comprehensive, a more complete curated list of VR resources is currently in preparation. This guide is intended to offer some direction to faculty members in incorporation the teaching of creating VR experiences into their curriculum. It is not aimed at people who want to use VR as a tool in their teaching of other subjects.

Please note: this is a work in progress. The field is developing rapidly. You can comment, suggest improvements and additions, using this google form

Introduction, Questions

Getting Started

Starter Projects

Here are some projects you can try that give results relatively quickly.

360 degrees stereoscopic video (Coming Soon)

An Immersive Dynamic World
- create 360 degrees stereoscopic render from Maya using the Arnold VR Camera

Essential Reading

Jason Jerald. 2015. The VR Book: Human-Centered Design for Virtual Reality. Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool, New York, NY, USA.

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the VR ride: a cross disciplinary assignment in computer graphics and interactivity

wobbe — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 01:24:06 +0000

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Nick Jushchyshyn, Robert Lloyd, and Erik Sundquist, Drexel University.

In this Groovy Assignment submission, we present a VR Ride assignment that challenges students to create a fully interactive VR computer graphics experience integrated with a themed ride. For this assignment, a ride is an apparatus that fully supports the users weight, utilizes the user's body motions as a primary input for computer interactivity, and provides haptic feedback relevant to the VR experience.

The assignment is designed to inspire and motivate creative thinking and cross disciplinary collaboration with faculty and students from outside the scope of those traditionally involved in programs focused on computer graphics and interaction.

The assignment can be easily scaled, by utilizing wholly existing, found or purchased platforms (exercise equipment such as a rowing machine or stationary bike) for use with small groups of students if desired. In the example presented, students from Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, Game Design, VR & Immersive Media, Animation & VFX and Game Design programs collaborated using primarily found or recycled components to build a bespoke, human powered "VR Cycle" ride, integrated with original VR experiences developed for the ride.

This Groovy Graphics Assignment was presented at SIGGRAPH 2019, and is available in the ACM Digital Library:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3328018

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Build your own VR system: an introduction to VR displays and cameras for hobbyists and educators

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An Immersive Dynamic World

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