Lectures¶

Instead of live lectures, you will watch recorded lectures as part of your individual course work. We will still meet during scheduled lecture hours, but these lecture sessions will be dedicated to the final project development.

Recordings and slides are available here:

Youtube Lectures: 2022 University of Oulu, by Anna LaValle.

Lecture Slides

YouTube Lectures, 2025 IIT Madras - University of Oulu, Foundations of Virtual Reality, NPTEL course.

Lecture Slides

Flipped-Lecture Sessions¶

During the scheduled lecture sessions we will be working on the project development. You can join the sessions via zoom:

Join these sessions in class or via Zoom Link.
Slides from these sessions can be found here.

Other accompanying materials that you might refer to include textbooks.

Textbooks¶

Required: Steven M. LaValle, Virtual Reality, 2016.
Optional: George Mather, Foundations of Sensation and Perception: Psychology Press; 2 edition, 2009.

With accompanying online resources.

Additional Recommended Books¶

Handbook of Virtual Environments: Design, Implementation, and Applications. 2nd Edition. K. S. Hale, K. M. Stanney, Eds. 2014.
3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice. D. A. Bowman, E. Kruijff, J. J. LaViola, and I. Poupyrev. 2014.
Understanding Virtual Reality: Interface, Application, and Design. W. R. Sherman and A. B. Craig. 2012.

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