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The document outlines the course 'Virtual Reality Technologies and Applications' (CS4188/CS5188) taught by Rynson W.H. Lau, covering various VR techniques, applications, and design issues. It includes a syllabus, course aims, intended learning outcomes, and assessment methods, emphasizing a project involving Unreal Engine 5. The course is multi-disciplinary, requiring programming skills, and provides resources for support and additional materials.

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The document outlines the course 'Virtual Reality Technologies and Applications' (CS4188/CS5188) taught by Rynson W.H. Lau, covering various VR techniques, applications, and design issues. It includes a syllabus, course aims, intended learning outcomes, and assessment methods, emphasizing a project involving Unreal Engine 5. The course is multi-disciplinary, requiring programming skills, and provides resources for support and additional materials.

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Virtual Reality Technologies

and Applications
(CS4188/CS5188)
Rynson W.H. Lau

2024/2025
Reference Books
 The VR Book: Human-Centred Design for Virtual Reality
Jason Jerald, ACM, 2015.

 Building Virtual Reality with Unity and Stream VR


Jeff W. Murray, CRC Press, 2017.

 Unreal Engine VR Cookbook: Developing Virtual Reality with UE5


Mitch McCaffrey, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2017.

 Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments


Mel Slater, Anthony Steed, and Yiorgos Chrysanthou, Addison Wesley, 2002.

 Virtual Reality Technology, Second Edition


Grigore Burdea and Philipe Coiffet, Willey-Interscience, 2003.
Syllabus
 VR: Introduction
 Input and Output Devices for VR
 Computing Architectures for VR
 VR Modelling
 Rendering Techniques
 Distributed and Networking Issues
 VR Applications
General Course Information

Course Aims
This course aims at introducing various types of virtual
reality techniques and their applications. The course will
first cover some basic VR technologies, including
interfacing devices, CG techniques, and interaction
techniques. It will then introduce some VR applications,
including medical applications and games. It will also
cover the design issues of virtual reality systems.
Course Intended Learning Outcomes (CILOs)
 Identify the important characteristics of different virtual
reality techniques.
 Explain different types of virtual reality hardware systems.
 Explain and discuss different types of virtual reality
applications.
 Design and apply virtual reality techniques to address real-
world problems.
Course Assessment

Course Work – 50%


Quiz – 20%
Course Project – 30%

Examination – 50%
This course is a multi-disciplinary course. It covers
diverse disciplines, including computer science,
biology, physics, electronics, and mechanics.

Due to such a broad coverage of topics, some of the


knowledge can be difficult to you, as well as to me.
Nevertheless, it would be good to include them as
they provide some background knowledge to some
VR/AR applications.
The course project involves developing a VR or AR
application. The development will be based on the
Unreal Engine 5.

This course project contributes to 30% of the final


mark. It requires a certain amount of programming
efforts. You need to prepare for, if you take this course.

CS runs a programming clinic to help students with


programming problems:
https://courses.cs.cityu.edu.hk/clinic
For the course project, the department requires
that students in CS4188 must achieve at least 30%
(out of 100%) of the course project component in
order to get a passing grade in this course.

For the examination, the university requires that


each student must achieve at least 30% (out of
100%) of the examination component in order to get
a passing grade in this course.
For this course not to be so boring, I have put a
lot of effort trying to include more relevant or
interesting images/videos to demonstrate the
ideas/devices.

However, some of the technologies or devices


may not come with nice videos. So, you may
see some low-quality videos occasionally, but
most should be of reasonably high quality.
Course URL:
www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~rynson/info-vr/vr.html
The latest/updated course schedule can be found on this
webpage.

Course notes and tutorial notes will be available on Canvas.


 Instructor: Rynson Lau
Office: Y6309
Telephone: 3442-7525
email: [email protected]
URL: www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~rynson/

 Teaching Assistants:
- Huankang Guan - Yuhao Liu
- Haoyuan Wang - Youjun Zhao
- Yiyu Li - Fang Liu
- Zhenwei Wang

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