Experience Virtual Reality, Get $5!

We’re studying perception in virtual reality, and we need your help! We’ll ask you to perform simple tasks in virtual space as we observe and ask about your experiences. Sessions last about 40-minutes, and you’ll get $5! Times are flexible; we want as many people as we can get this […]


I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

I found a online copy of Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream if anyone is interested in reading it. If anyone has any comments on the story feel free to post them. It is a dark tale, but a fascinating one. I Have No Mouth, and […]


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 […]


Madison VR Meetup

Hello everyone, Myself and a couple others are hosting our 2nd Madison VR Meetup tomorrow at 100state. We started the Madison VR Meetup a month ago to gather the Madison area community together to provide a forum for discussion and also to provide a way for others to try different […]


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 […]


Traversal in VR

Walking in Place   WizDish   Omni http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Y7heqoITs     WalkMouse   Virtusphere   Omnidirectional treadmill     Gait Master CirculaFloor   Redirect Walking Change Blindness   Bike Simulator            


Project Ideas from Previous Classes

The project component of this course is very open.  We will spend some time in the course generating project ideas.  Here are some examples of projects students have generated in previous classes: