Indicative contents

Weightage @ 20% Each

• Defence – Military, Navy, Air force, Control Room, Warfare & soldier training etc.
  
• Engineering – Manufacturing, Design, Robotics, Assembly, Maintenance, Training etc.
  
• Entertainment – Arts, Theatricality, Interactive dramaturgy, Gaming zones etc.
  
• Life sciences – Anatomy, Diagnostics, Surgery, Medicine, Rehabilitation, Education etc.
  
• Visualization – Oil exploration, Well management, Financial data, Urban Planning etc.

Module Resources

• Essential reading
  1. Course notes
• Recommended Reading
  1. Peters Andersen, Lars Qvortrup, Virtual Applications: Applications with Virtual Inhabited 3D Worlds, 1st edition, Springer, 2003.
  2. Charles S Hansen, Chris P Johnson, The Visualization Handbook, 1st edition, ELSEVIER, 2005.
     
  3. Doug A Bowman, Ernst Kruiff, Joseph J Laviola, Ivan Poupyrev, 3D User Interface: Theory and Practice, 1st edition, Addison Wesley, 2004.
     
  4. Grigore Burdea, Philippe Coiffet, Virtual Reality Technology, 1st edition, Wiley InterSence, 2003.
     
  5. james D Westwood, Randy S Haluck, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 13 The Magical Next Becomes the Medical Now, 1st edition, 2003.
     
  6. L C Jain, R J Howlett, N S Icharkarnaje, G Tonfoni, Virtual Environments for teaching and learning,1st edition, World Scientific, 2002.
     
  7. Reinhold Behringer, Gudrun Klinker, David W Mizell, Augmented Reality Placing Artificial Objects in Real Scenes, 1st edition, A K Peter,1999.
     
  8. William Sherman , Craig, Alan B ,Understanding Virtual Reality Interface, Application and Design, 1st edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2003.
• Journals
  
  • Computers in Biology and Medicine, Elsevier
  • Computers & Education, Elsevier
  • Technology in Society, Elsevier
  • Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, Elsevier
  • Computing Systems in Engineering, Elsevier
• Magazines, Transactions & Proceedings

1. Computers in Entertainment, Association for Computing Machinery
2. E-Learn, Association for Computing Machinery
3. Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE

• Internet Sites

1. www.defense-aerospace.com
2. www.sae.org/servlets/index
3. www.sandia.gov
4. www.emedicine.com
5. www.devicelink.com/mddi/archive/00/05/004.html
6. www.hni.uni-paderborn.de/rip/vr/index_e.php3
7. www.erasmusmc.nl/bioinformatics/research/vrp.shtml
8. www.rug.nl/rc/hpcv/visualisation/virtual_reality?lang=en
9. www.ergonetz.de/index_e.html

• Laboratory
  • Hardware:
    2.8 GHz P4 Computers with 1 GB RAM & 256 MB Graphics Card
    HP Workstation: 2Core-2Processor AMD, 4GB RAM, 512 MB Graphics Card
    Infocus-DepthQ 3D Stereo Projector with Rear Projection Screen , NuVision 60GX LCD Shutter Glasses with Emitters for Stereo Vision.
    5DT 3D Stereo HMD with 800x600svga 26FOV LCOS & Headphone
    InterSense InertiaCube 3 DOF Inertia Head Tracker for HMD.
    Polhemus Fastrack 6DOF Tracking System with Long Range Transmitter
    NoDNA X-IST Gloves with 5 Pressure, 5 Data, 2 Rotation sensors
    Inition’s 3DiStick navigator with 6DOF Magnetic sensor
    Logitech’s Space Pilot the 6DOF 3D mouse for desktop navigation
    Creative’s 5.1 Channel Audio system
  • Software:
    OpenGL, Quest3D, VTK, VRML
  • Software Manual:
    OpenGL Documentation
    Quest3D Programming Guide, Tutorials
    VTK Programming Guide, Reference Manual, VRML Books
    Respective manuals for VR Input – Output Device