In this part we discuss the environment and level design principles. We bring out the rationale game developers should consider when building their levels and positioning the player. The players must feel as if they are part of the created world. Game developers and artists work hard to provoke this feeling in the players. HTC […]
Welcome, reader! This is the first part of a series of articles, which delve into game design for VR platforms. We focus on the HTC Vive platform and room-scale VR. Many of the concepts also apply to other VR platforms and the critical analysis of different game design elements is transferable to other areas as […]
As another academic year draws to an end, it’s high time to recap some of the hard work our people have been doing in the lab. From the computational neuroscience side of things, this spring we had a total of three students defending their thesis under our guidance. The extended team of students and supervisors for this […]
Our researchers recently published an article titled “Attention is withdrawn from the area of the visual field where the own hand is currently moving“. What follows is an human readable summary of the exciting work. The core question is simple: how does the brain work in terms of computation? One theory that has been gaining […]
On the ICS Day 2016 of the University of Tartu we introduced the computer graphics and virtual reality lab to the students. An overview of people we have in the field and different projects our students have been working on.
By Madis Vasser June 27th-29th saw the first VECTOR (Virtual Environments: Current TOpics in psychological Research) workshop in Tübingen, Germany. I had the great opportunity to take part in the event, give some presentations and hear some interesting ideas. Here is what happened in three days dedicated to virtual reality, psychology, medicine and computer science: […]
Our very own Madis Vasser was featured in today’s Voices of VR podcast with Kent Bye, giving a brief interview about our lab’s work and the future of VR. The talk was recorded back in march at IEEE VR 2015, where we were giving a research demo on change blindness in VR, made with our […]
By Madis Vasser I’ve just returned from a week-long trip to Arles, France to attend IEEE VR 2015, the “premiere international conference & exhibition on VR”, held since 1993. Outside of the academic circle the event is hardly known, although it is marketed to academics, industry workers and also regular end-users. I was was there on […]
The Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality Lab at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia provides video game development, virtual reality (VR), and computer graphics education both inside and outside the uni and a study place for our students.
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University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science and the CGVR Lab organized another game jam titled University of Tartu Game Jam 2025. It had over 100 participants who formed 26 teams with a shared goal: to create a fully playable game in less than 48 hours. Designed especially for newcomers, the event offered a collaborative […]
Hosted by the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science and the CGVR Lab the Tartu Ülikooli Mängujämm 2025 brought together over 80 enthusiastic participants forming 19 teams — all united by one mission: to build a complete computer game in under 48 hours. Designed with beginners in mind, the event had a a supportive […]