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Short course

Introduction to Virtual Reality

Who should attend:

Faculty, staff, students

Experience level:

Beginning

Prerequisite skills:

Must be an Envision Center qualified user

Frequency:

As needed

Course type:

Lecture

Course includes:

  • Learning what is required to develop virtual reality (VR) applications in areas such as science, engineering, art, education, and medicine

  • Understanding the origins of VR, technology underlying VR, and methods used to interface humans with VR worlds

  • Identifying major applications of VR technology, such as advanced visualization, virtual reality technologies, immersive environments, large-scale high-resolution displays, stereoscopic 3D displays, multimodal user interaction, and VR applications

  • Contrasting common hardware, display systems, software tools, and methodologies for developing VR environments

 
 
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