Computer Science 294
Virtual Reality

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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)