Syllabus

Introduction: What is VR, applications, basic components of VR, Success stories of VR and challenges, VR hardware, visualization, VR content generation, and storing. Human Senses and VR: Discussion on how human senses correlate to VR such as Visual system, Auditory System, Olfaction, Gustation, etc.

Three-dimensional geometry theory: coordinate system, Vectors, Line, plane transformation etc. The rendering pipeline: Geometry and vertex operations, culling and clipping, screen mapping, scan conversion or rasterization, fragment processing, texturing, etc.

Image-based rendering: General approaches to IBR, acquiring images for IBR, mosaicking, making panoramic images, etc. Computer vision in VR: The mathematical language of geometric computer vision, cameras, CV application in VR, Virtual Worlds using Computer Vision.

Stereopsis: parallax, HMD, active, passive, and other stereoscopic systems, etc. Navigation and Movement in VR: computer animation, moving and rotating in 3D, robotic motion, inverse kinematics, etc.