VR Textbook into Morgan Kaufmann

Fundamentals of VR Development submitted to Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann.

As of July 31, 2023, A Practical Introduction to Virtual Reality: From Concepts to Executables has been submitted to Elsevier to be published under the Morgan Kaufmann label

What makes this textbook different from others are two main items: grounded in practice and maintainability. 

For the first item, this work was in partnership with SD Mines in Rapid City, SD and tested with students in their undergraduate VR course.  In other words, this was tested with real students in a real VR classroom. Analysis of the educational data is ongoing.  However, the student progress has already been shown to be farther than initially estimated.  If this can be arranged in the near future, I will link to some of the students' final projects.

For the second item, the textbook materials have been divided into textbook materials and digital materials.  The conceptual topics with pseudocode are in the textbook itself.  Tutorials are available online and are currently only designed to be used with Unity.  With this division, tutorial materials can be updated once a year, maintaining currency.      

If you are interested in learning more about the book or if you are interested in being a future test classroom for the materials, please contact us.