Getting Started¶

Please read carefully through the following sections. After you are done reading, finalize your course registration by completing the Registration Task below. You will get 1% of the final grade for completing it on time.

Registration Task, complete by 2025-11-11 20:30.

Enroll in This Course on Lovelace¶

To access the above Registration Task and other exercises in the course, you need to make sure you are enrolled in this course on Lovelace. Once you are enrolled, the exercises and tasks become visible on the home page of our course: VR Systems and Humans, 2025. Otherwise, only general information is displayed; exercise pages are either hidden or non-interactive to unenrolled students.

Communication¶

We use Discord for all course communication. You will receive Discord invitation in the first mass email, as well as upon enrolling in this course on Lovelace.

Please post your questions there instead of sending emails. On Discord you can:

Get help and answers quickly,
Help your classmates,
Find teammates for your project, and
Discuss with others and with the staff throughout the course.

Important: Do not send direct messages (DMs) to staff members. DMs are disabled by server policy.

Course Format: Flipped Classroom¶

Starting this year, we will use a flipped-classroom model.

Individual Work¶

This work you will complete and submit individually, outside of any live sessions.

Watch online recorded lectures (YouTube) and/or read textbook chapters
Complete Quizzes
Complete Homework assignments
Complete the Final Exam

Team Work¶

This work you complete and submit as a team. Part of this work you will complete during live sessions.

Attend in-person lecture sessions focused on step-by-step project development.
Attend in-person lab sessions focused on homework assisgnemtns and project development.
Collaborate with your group to build the Final Project.

This approach lets us use in-class time for hands-on implementation and team work, rather than traditional lectures.

Lectures, Slides, Textbooks¶

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, slides, and recommended textbooks are available here: LEARNING MATERIALS.

Hardware Setup: VR Cardboards¶

For Homeworks 1–6 and the Final Project, you will use a VR headset.

STEP 1: CHOOSE YOUR SETUP¶

If you own a high-end HMD:

→ Use your own VR headset (any model works).

If you do not own a high-end HMD but have an Android phone:

→ Use a VR Cardboard headset.
→ We will provide one for you.

If you do not have either:

→ Form a team and use a teammate’s VR Cardboard and Android phone.

If nobody in your team has one:

→ Borrow an Oculus Quest 2 from us.

STEP 2: REGISTER YOUR SETUP¶

Complete the Registration Task and indicate:

Your team name.
Which setup your team is using.
(If your team borrowed an HMD) the device ID.

VR Lab: TS135¶

In-person lab sessions will be held in TS135 during scheduled lab times (see course schedule). During these sessions you can work on any parts of course work, including the homework and the final project. You can also use the lab in the evenings and weekends.

Homework, Quizzes, the Final Project¶

Homework assignments will be released under Homework.
Quizzes will follow each learning module.
The Final Project will be developed with your team.

Exam¶

You will have one in-person proctored closed book/notes/AI exam. For more information, see the Exam page.

Deadlines¶

You can check the deadlines for all of the coursework on our schedule page.

Late Submission Policy¶

For homework and the final project, 40% will be automatically deducted for every day that your submission is late. That is, your score on a day, d, after the deadline gets multiplied by 0.6^d.

For the final exam and quizzes in this course, no submissions will be accepted after the deadline.

Final Grade Calculation¶

Your final grade is calculated as follows:

X = 0.01(Registration Tasks) + 0.30(Homework) + 0.10(Quizzes) + 0.30(Final Project) + 0.30(Final Exam)

You pass the course if X > 60.

The scale for the final grade is: 5 if X > 92, 4 if X > 82, 3 if X > 72, 2 if X > 65, and 1 if X > 60.

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