VR Hardware

Immersive VR system CAVE of the RWTH Aachen	Various VR input devices

The goal of the practical is to introduce you into working with VR hardware and solving classical VR interaction problems.

During the practical, you will create a virtual voxel worlds builder application.
The application should allow a user to create voxel worlds from within an immersive VR system.
These voxel worlds can consist of a variety of different objects as it is illustrated in the above pictures (go there).

Your task will be to design and implement interaction techniques necessary to create the voxel worlds from within an immersive Virtual Environment.
Some of the interaction tasks that you will need to address are 3D spatial selection, system control, and navigation.
To solve the task, you will have access to a multitude of VR hardware as it is shown above (go there).
Additionally we will supply you with a software framework that serves as a base for your implementations.

The target platform for your techniques is the fully immersive CAVE VR system.

Scope: PT 4 (SWS) or 8 ECTS credits
Language: German/English

• Completed Vordiplom or Bachelor's degree
• Advanced knowledge of C++ and object-oriented programming
• Having visited the VR lecture is an advantage

VR-specific devices (CAVE, PIcasso Workstation, Tracker) will be handled using the VR-ToolKit ViSTA.
For the development Windows (MS Visual Studio 2008) as well as Linux workstations will be available.
The programming language of choice is C++.

 

 

See campus entry.