Computer Science 294
Virtual Reality
Final Projects
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 11:30pm @ 515 Soda) David Parks : Dynamic Hierarchical Action Selection for an Articulated Figure
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 12:00pm @ 544 Soda) George Borchoukov : Virtual flyby of the Berkeley Campanile
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 12:30pm @ 544 Soda) Mark Ping, Alex Shvedoff, Neha Wickramasekaran : Virtual Doom
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 1:00pm @ 544 Soda) Stephen Chenney : A Real-time Ocean Around the Virtual Fun Park
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 1:30pm @ 349 Soda) Terence Tay, Carrie Wolberg : Navigating in a Virtual Surgical Model
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 2:00pm @ 564 Soda) David Gibson : Programmable VRML worlds
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 2:30pm @ 111 Cory) Amit Bleiweiss, Ahmed Farouk, Jonathan Kung : An Interactive, Navigational Environment for Viewing the Anatomy of the Eye
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 3:00pm @ 330 Cory) Murat Cenk CAVUSOGLU : Modeling Deformable Tissue
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 3:30pm @ 330 Cory) Michael Downes, Amy Hsu, Michael Steele : A Virtual Environment for Training Minimally Invasive Gall Bladder Removal Surgery
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 4:00pm @ 550 Cory) Michael Shilman, Anoop Sinha, Walter Hsiao : Information Visualization: A Fisheye Hierarchy Browser
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 4:30pm @ 489 Minor) Fuji Lai : Investigation of the Use of the Mouse and Associated Visual Conditions for Manipulation in 3D Virtual Environments
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 5:00pm @ 489 Minor) Jordan Smith, Richard Davis : Inverse Kinematic Arm Model for presence in VE's
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 5:30pm @ 489 Minor) Xinhui Niu (demo on 4/30) : Mars Terrain Surface Modeling
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 6:00pm @ 489 Minor) Xunlei Wu : Time delay measurement in VE
- Proposal Status (Filmed @ 3:00pm (THURSDAY) @ 489 Minor) Rajesh Krishna Balan : Mosaicing of images into a stereo panorama for a VR application
Overview
Welcome to the Home Page for the CS294, the
centralized place for information pertaining to the class
Virtual Reality taught the Spring
of 1997. We are affiliated with the
Computer Science Division at
the University of California,
Berkeley.
Current state of the art in the main areas of VR will be covered:
what is VR and why it works; drivers for the field are new technologies and
exciting applications as entertainment, scientific visualization, telerobotics,
surgery, and simulation and training; computer graphics rendering; and
illusions of vision and perception generally that make VR feasible.
Lecture: Tuesday / Thursday 2:00pm - 3:30pm 405 Soda
Lab: 349 Soda and 111 Cory, 24/7 a kool-aid smile (i.e. Anytime)
Required Book
Stuart, Rory.
The Design of Virtual Environments,
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996.
Recommended Book
Woodrow Barfied and Thomas A. Furness III,
Virtual Environments and Advanced Interface Design,
Oxford University Press, New York, 1995.
Readings
There will be a volume of selected reprints as readings for the course.
Teaching staff
- Instructor : Brian A. Barsky (barsky@cs.berkeley.edu)
- 785 Soda, x2-9838 (Office hours Tu/Th 5:00pm - 6:00pm)
- Instructor : Lawrence Stark (stark@pupil.berkeley.edu)
- 485 Minor, x2-3621 (Office hours held in 784 Soda Tu/Th 3:30pm - 4:00pm)
- Teaching Assistant : Dan Garcia (ddgarcia@cs.berkeley.edu)
- 535 Soda, x2-9716 (Office hours Tu/Th 3:30pm - 4:00pm)
- Here's his personal teaching page.
- Resource : Ted Blackmon (ttb@milo.berkeley.edu)
- 485 Minor, x2-5309
- Resource : Frank Tendick (frank@milo.berkeley.edu)
- 263 Cory (Office hours Mo/We 3:00 - 4:00pm)
- UCSF, 415-476-6100 x41834
- Reader : Richard Nelson (rbtn@po.eecs.berkeley.edu)
Homework & Projects
- Project Status Report 97-04-02
- Homework #3 - Immersion/Interaction/Interest in 20 VR worlds 97-03-25
- Project Proposal Online Turnin
- 3D MRI project ideas
- Ted Blackmon's project ideas
- Projects related to Virtual Environments for Training in Surgery
- Homework #1 and #2 - Evaluate Rover and TR simulations
- Project information
- Getting started with VRML
Thanks to...
We'd like to give our sincere thanks to several companies/groups whose donations
of hardware, software and resources make this course possible.
Apple Computer
Silicon Graphics
Intergraph
Sense-8
Dimension-X
Intel
EECS Instruction
Plugs
Beyond Imaging: Creating the Near Future at Walt Disney Imagineering
Alice: Interactive 3D Graphics for Windows 95
Directions to 486 Minor Hall
The Rover and TR simulations will be held in 486 Minor Hall. The lab
is located in the east building of the two building Minor Hall
complex. 486 is on the second floor and the door is on the east side
of the corridor and toward the south end of the hall. It should be
open or unlocked and Amy will leave notes on the door(s).
WWW Maven: Dan Garcia (ddgarcia@cs.berkeley.edu) Send me feedback
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