Fernando Nasc - Week 5 - VR Artifacts and Architectures

Week 5 - VR Artifacts and Architectures

Learning goals of the week

Understand the technical aspects of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
Compare and contrast VR and AR devices main applications.
Get us started on possible implications of AR and VR through imaginative variations.

Mihelj - Introduction to Virtual Reality in Virtual Reality,Technology, and Application.

This is a nice conceptual introduction to VR. And if you like some history, here is an interesting historical perspective.

2. ** FA - Mihelj - Intro to VR

3. Synchronous Meeting 1 via Zoom

If possible, please, keep you Video On and your Audio Off. Speaker View is great to keep focus on the flow of the discussion.

4. VR - Inside Tech

Watch this very short intro to VR.
Familiarize yourself with the concept of Degrees of Freedom (DoF)
Now explore some of the currently available VR devices by watching this video.
And finally, let's take a look at a recent demo of the Augmented Reality device Hololens 2.

If you want to go slightly deeper, read How virtual reality positional tracking works (ads are annoying...)

5. ** FA - Ready Player One

Let's start exploring some implications of VR through imaginative variations.

Please watch this clip on Kinolab (you will need to create an account using your bowdoin.edu email address)

Then answer this short activity.

6. Synchronous Meeting 2 via Zoom

If possible, please, keep you Video On and your Audio Off. Speaker View is great to keep focus on the flow of the discussion.

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