Introduction to Augmented and Virtual Reality

4.0 credits

This course provides a broad introduction to augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) systems. The course involves lectures and workshops covering an overview of all aspects of the AR/VR domain, as well as an individual class project developing an AR/VR demonstration of an application chosen by each student. Topics covered in the lectures and class workshops include history, conceptual origins, and design/evaluation principles of AR/VR technologies; optical architectures; audio and visual perception; graphics and computation; data processing and machine intelligence; introduction to AR/VR developer tools; societal implications and ethical aspects. At the end of the course, students will have gained familiarity with the techniques, languages, and cultures of fields integral to the convergent research theme of AR/VR. This course includes workshops and project demonstrations in Studio X, as well as several guest lectures.