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New Classroom for Tuesday

    We will have a new room for our discussion classes.  The room will be at 1109 at the Mcardle Building on 1400 University Ave.  To get to the classroom, take the elevator to the 10th floor and then take the stairs to the 11th floor. The building is between […]


Unity and Oculus Rift Getting Started

This document is meant to help get us started with some of the tools we will us in the class.  Please either add comments or make new posts with problems and solutions you come across in trying to get software and hardware to working on your system. First get Unity: https://unity3d.com/get-unity […]


Reading 3

For class 9/29/15 Post Comments by Sunday, 11:59 pm on 2/27/15 Defining virtual reality: Dimensions determining telepresence Jonathan Steuer http://ww.cybertherapy.info/pages/telepresence.pdf  Discussion (Pick 5 of items below.  Each response should be at least a paragraph) In what ways do you think the author’s view on Telepresence differs from Slater’s use of presence? […]


Links from Reading 2

From Alex http://www.worldmag.com/2013/09/virtual_reality_violence_too_real_to_ignore http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/16/5904751/project-morpheus-richard-marks-interview http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/06/the-kitchen-on-project-morpheus-will-devour-your-soul/ http://motherboard.vice.com/read/virtual-reality-experiment-has-you-comfort-a-child-then-become-that-child http://www.wired.com/2014/03/project-morpheus-impressions/ http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/05/what-oculus-rift-and-virtual-reality-mean-for-sex-death-violence-and-identity/ From gfreking http://www.geeksnack.com/2015/05/04/suicide-option-removed-project-morpheus-heist-stressful/ From mmeylor From Tyler From Kyen2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XbjpkzydTEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n447GRTCsUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ7CSrcjo_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3-a58Wt2tk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkZM2oWcleM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVdO-cx-McA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoQuVnKhxaM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoQuVnKhxaM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVA3T7FoM3E  


Reading 2

For class 9/22/15 Post Comments by 11:59 pm on 9/20/15   Place illusion and plausibility can lead to realistic behaviour in immersive virtual environments Mel Slater http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/364/1535/3549.full.pdf+html The ethics of representation and action in virtual reality Philip Brey http://realities.id.tue.nl/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/brey-1999.pdf   Discussion: Post 1 (Pick 3, write one paragraph for each): Do you agree […]


Reading 1

For class 9/15/15 Post Comments by 11:59 pm on 9/13/15 The Ultimate Display by Ivan Sutherland, 1965 comments by Bruce Sterling, 2009 http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/09/augmented-reality-the-ultimate-display-by-ivan-sutherland-1965/ A Note on Presence Terminology Mel Slater http://s3.amazonaws.com/publicationslist.org/data/melslater/ref-201/a%20note%20on%20presence%20terminology.pdf Please print out these articles and bring them with you to class on Monday for discussion.  Alternatively, you can bring digital […]


VPN Access

  To log into the website you need to have a campus IP.  If you are off-campus you can use VPN to obtain a campus IP.  Here are instructions on how to do so: http://www.doit.wisc.edu/network/vpn/ 


Assignment 1

Due: For class 9/3/15 This is a simple assignment to get us started. Find an article about Virtual or Augment Reality that you find interesting, silly, inspiring, provocative, etc.  Post the the link in the comments below.  Comments will need to be approved by me (this will make sense when […]