Virtual Reality

Student's Choice Presentation

This presentation is 10% of your final grade:

5% for in-class presentation.

5% for project report on Github.

Topic selection is due at 11:00am Tuesday, Jan 30 to the TA: vinh.nguyen[at]ttu.edu

Presentation screenshot (a 1200 x 600 jpg image of your talk which should be named talk.<your_last_name>.jpg, presentation link, and report link are due at 11am Tuesday, Feb 13 to the TA: vinh.nguyen[at]ttu.edu.
The presentation schedule should look like this.

Requirements:

The talk and report need to answer the following questions:

Overview: What is it? History of the technique/device?

Where is it used? What are best suited applications?

The basics: How does it work?

Why is it a good use of VR? Why is it unique? What’s cool about it?

Critique on strengths and weaknesses/issues such as tesign flaws or technical flaws. Is there still more to do?

Can this lead to varying degrees of simulator sickness including nausea, fatigue, headache, eyestrain, vertigo, and dizziness? What is your rating on the scale from 0 to 10?

0: Normal (no motion sickness at all)

5: Average (lead to dizziness) -> can not use it for more than a few minutes

10: Max (can be dangerous)

What are the similar/related applications?

Are there any other potential applications of the technique/device? Comparision in term of a table.
price
motion sickness
application
position tracking, hand tracking, eye tracking, brain sensors?
insert a phone or not?
produce smells (not sure)?

Conclusion

Refrences. Please also incluce a link to your slides (you can use Reveal.js for your slides)

Approved topics: Last updated: 3:00pm, Wed Feb 14

Student	Topic	Scheduled presentation	Link presentation	Report
Jonathan Bouligny	Gloveone : Feel Virtual Reality	Feb 6		!Report
Jakob Dozier	ARKit: Augmented Reality for iOS	Feb 6		Report
Fox Bolduc	The Redirected Walking Toolkit	Feb 6		!Report
Simon Woldemichael	Nvidia's Holodeck: Photorealistic collaborative design onment in virtual reality	Feb 6		Report (Good report)
Mayur Bhakta	ENGAGE: social education and presentation platform	Feb 8		!Report
Coe, Jordan J	NextVR	Feb 8		Report
Darien Sokolov	SoundStage	Feb 8		Report
Ge, Wenhao	ImmersiveTouch: The Future of Surgical Planning and Training	Feb 8		[LATE] Report
Myers, Trent	Oculus Touch - Hand Presence Technology	Feb 13		Report
Prerit Datta	DAQRI Headsets	Feb 13		Report
Athaa Bader M Alotaibi	Osso VR	Feb 13		Report
Im, Cheol Hwan	Mira Prism AR Headset	Feb 13		Report
Jessica Hao	VR & AR - Goes For Gold At 2018 Winter Olympic Games	Feb 13		!Report
Wesley Scott	A Walk Through Dementia.	Feb 15		!Report
Travis, Ahlberg	Google's Tilt Brush	Feb 15		Report
Reynaldo Garcia	Sketch AR Art with Mixed Reality	Feb 15		Report
Acosta, Michael	Meta 2 AR Headset Let Us Touch and Feel Holograms	Feb 15		Report
Gantaphon Chalumporn	Vive Tracker	Feb 15		Report
Tien Dang	Varjo: The Resolution Revolution is on	March 20		Report
Matthew Jordan	Microsoft HoloLens	March 20		Report
Xujia wu	Ghostbusters: Dimension Hyper-Reality Gameplay Trailer - THE VOID	March 20		Report
Lino Abiel Virgen Gracia	Home- FOVE Eye Tracking Virtual Reality Headset	March 20		Report
Thomas Sanchez	Mario Kart Arcade GP VR	March 22		Report (Good report)
Derek Fritz	LooxidVR	March 22		Report
Garcia, Eddie	Avegant Headset	April 3		Report
Omekam, Olisa	Neurable: control VR with your mind	April 3		NOT RECEIVED
Huber, Christine	AR-Assisted Piano Improvisation	April 3		Report
Luis Rausseo	Laboratory Simulations for Educators to Empower their STEM Students	April 3		Report
Amitsingh Pardeshi	360 Degree (Omnidirectional) Treadmills from Virtuix	April 3		Report
Wolff, Luciano	BraveMind VR	April 5		Report
Blechman, Scott	Quartz: News Stories in AR	April 5		Report
Taylor, Megan	Tribemix Virtual Reality for Dementia Care	April 5		Report
Emre Unal	Aero Glass	April 5		Report
Cody Otterbine	The Business of Virtual Reality Arcades	Link		Late
Manahan, Kevon	Smart Cities Dive			LATE (May 7)
Jijun Sui	Leap Motion			LATE (May 7)
David Cooper	Google ARCore			!Report
Joyelle A. Woodson	VRgluv: Force Feedback Gloves for Virtual Reality			!Report
Justin, Wright	VVR Teleoperation		Link	Report

Example Student Choices:

Here are some example topics that students can select from for their presentations:

Topic	Link
Roto VR – Interactive Virtual Reality Chair Roto VR enables its users to explore in all possible directions and discover the gravitational presence in a VR environment. Roto has been specifically designed for all HMDs. Instead of just using the headset to navigate around a space, the motorized chair allows one to rotate and turn in the virtual environment. This feature makes it perfect for coordination meetings or navigating through a space.
360 Degree (Omnidirectional) Treadmills The treadmill I will be covering in depth is the Virtuix Omni, while comparing it to other existing treadmill solutions. The idea behind these treadmills in general is that a user is held (usually at the waist /chest) to insure they don't fall over when moving around. The Omni treadmill has little friction to enable the user to walk/run in any direction when used with the appropriate shoes and shoe trackers. The curvature of the treadmill makes it so that the user is moved towards the center when they are moving around. It simulates the movements in games/applications, even when the movements are running, walking or just crouching. Other systems such as Vue VR even support jumping on top of the other movements. The nice thing about the Virtuix Omni and similar systems is how little room they consume, just like treadmills at a gym, where you can have multiple side by side (as shown below).
Birdly – Ultimate Dream of Flying a full-body virtual reality flight simulator that uses multi-hinged flaps and motion feedback to give you a taste of flying like a bird. Birdly includes a fan in front of the user that regulates the speed of the headwind based on how fast you’re flying.
Magic Bench Magic Bench allows for a group to share the same augmented environment with any computer-generated graphics and interact in a shared story sequence through a third-person POV. It’s a combined augmented and mixed reality experience. But, what makes this experience interesting is that it does not involve wearing a head-mounted display (HMD) or using a handheld device. Instead, the surroundings are instrumented rather than the individual, allowing people to share the magical experience as a group.
Osso VR Osso VR is a virtual reality application that uses the Oculus Rift to simulate device procedures and try to replace the current methods. As stated in the video, it’s common for an orthopaedic surgeon to go to a training seminar where demoes are provided by the device manufacturers and the surgeons get to use the device on a cadaver. Then, if the surgeon likes it, the next time they’ll interact with the device will usually be in surgery 4-6 months down the line. By having a VR environment, a surgeon would not only be able to cut out the 2 day seminar to try out the device, as the training would be available to them with the software, but it would also allow them to repeat the procedure many times to help them overcome the learning curve of the complicated procedure. Note: Software
Sketch AR \| Art with Mixed Reality SketchAR is an application that applied Augmented Reality to create art works in real world. When the user is using the device, he will be able to draw images, just like tracing. The image outline is projected on the selected space, which will be used as the canvas. This app is a very simple but effective usage of augmented reality. While this can be used as a fun application, it can also help people to create high quality copies of existing art and also reproduce them easily on a massive scale. This application is also available for other platforms such as iOS, Android, etc. But among all these, Hololens seems to be the most suitable place to use this app. Note: Software
eSight
Vive Tracker
BraveMind VR
VR Teleoperation
Mira Prism AR Headset
NOLO VR
ZephVR
Tribemix Virtual Reality for Dementia Care
Hyperbolic Space in Virtual (Un)reality
LiveMap
Snapchat Spectacles
ImmersiveTouch: The Future of Surgical Planning and Training
Aero glass:
Gloveone: Feel Virtual Reality
Neurable: control VR with your mind
Why Virtual Reality Could Help Treat Alzheimer's and Chronic Pain
Facial Performance Sensing Head-Mounted Display (SIGGRAPH 2015) Note: Research paper
High-Fidelity Facial and Speech Animation for VR HMDs (SIGGRAPH Asia 2016) Note: Research paper
FINEXUS finger tracking in VR (CHI '16) Note: Research paper
FOVE	https://www.getfove.com/
Leap Motion	https://www.leapmotion.com/
Varjo: The Resolution Revolution is on	https://varjo.com/
NextVR	https://nextvr.com/
Google Tango	https://developers.google.com/tango/
Google ARCore "The Google ARCore is the answer to Apple's ARKit"	https://developers.google.com/ar/