1. Virtual Reality: Perception & Physics

2. Course Goals Course is NOT a programming course practical VR course
Intro. to perceptual & simulation issues
Designed to engender research skills
Critical review of literature
Presentation
Project

3. Early VR History PreWWI-50s
Flight Simulators
For history see:

4. Brief VR history - 1950s Extensions of Movies Sensorama Morton Heilig
Multi-sensory bicycle ride

5. Brief VR history - 1960s & 70s Early HMDs Raymond Goertz (1960s)
Ivan Sutherland

6. VR history - 1980s-90s Helmet CAVE And Many More …. PhanTom Treadport
BOOM

7. VR Applications Visualization Education & Training Design
Flight Training
Surgery
Design
Architechtural
Remote interaction
Entertainment

8. Realism & Function Realism- Function-
Designing simulations with increasingly fidelity to physics
Computational load
Real-time
Function-
Design simulations with function in mind
Some environments inappropriate for function
Some information irrelevant/taxing for function

9. Graphics Realism
Fiat Lux

10. Irrelevant Information