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

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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