Week 15

In-class Review of Project 3


The Project 3 web page shows all of the solutions that were turned in.

 We are going to have 10 or 11 people/groups present per day. Each should spend 5 minutes giving a good discussion and demonstration of their project, and each will have 1 additional minute to get set up if needed.

Very likely this will mean everyone presenting via their web pages and YouTube videos, but if you can get a headset or the simulator running in time that would be better.

We wont have any Q/A this time.

Coming Next Time

That's up to you ... congrats to all the soon to be graduates. For those that are continuing on there are various other evl related courses that you could take, as well as related courses in Communications, Psychology, and Art & Design.

Next term there is:

    422 - User Interface Design and Programming

    425 - Computer Graphics I

    427 - Creative Coding


    524 - Visualization and Visual Analytics II

    594 - Empirical Methods in HCC



If you are an undergraduate in the middle of your studies, and find any of these topics interesting, and don't have an internship lined up for the summer, you may want to consider becoming part of the research team on some existing projects. Most funded research from the National Science Foundation in the US encourages (funds) bringing in undergraduates, so there are opportunities to work hourly on these kinds of projects.

If you are an undergraduate nearing the end of your studies, and you find any of these topics interesting, you may also want to consider going on to graduate school  https://cs.uic.edu/graduate/ms-program/ and engage with more topical issues, gain more advanced skills, play with more expensive toys for 2 more years.

The CS department has a PDF brochure giving an overview of the MS program: https://cs.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/110/2020/03/MS-Program-CS.pdf

There are 3 MS options, all of which require 36 credits (courses at the graduate level are 4 credits each), so its roughly two more years.

- 28 hours coursework + 8 hours of thesis credit
- 32 hours coursework + 4 hours of project credit
- 36 hours coursework


 CS Grad Brochure

Back when I was an undergrad (in the mythical brightly colored decade of the 1980s) I had absolutely no idea about this kind of thing, so feel free to chat with me (or any of the other CS faculty) if you have any questions.


Chicago has a vibrant meetup community including groups focusing on VR and AR including https://www.meetup.com/VRARChicago/ and https://www.eventbrite.com/d/il--chicago/virtual-reality/ and there is the local group of ACM CHI https://www.chicagochi.org/ - these groups are starting to meet again in person. Pre-COVID there were regular get-togethers where people could meet and try out new tech and people looking for jobs could meet people looking to hire and presumably those will reappear.

There are also quite a few open source libraries available for you to use, lots of new VR and AR devices coming out, as well as regular updates to smartphone hardware, so there are opportunities to develop apps on your own to support different communities and make those available. The technology is evolving quickly so it can be a good time to get involved.
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