Recommended text is Gutiérrez MA, Vexo, F, & Thalmann, D (2008) Stepping into Virtual Reality, Springer. The core readings will consist of research papers drawn from the recent literature.

Some Additional Readings:

• Barfield & Caudell (Eds.) (2001) Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality. Laurence Erlbaum.
• Barfield, W., Furness, T. (Eds) (1997) Virtual Environments and Advanced Interface Design. Oxford Univ Press.
• Carlile, S. (1996) Virtual Auditory Space: Generation and Applications (Neuroscience Intelligence Unit). Landes Bioscience
• Carr, K., England, R. (Eds.) (1995) Simulated and Virtual Realities: Elements of Perception. Taylor & Francis.
• Chen, C. (1999) Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments. Springer Verlag.
• Healey, C. (1999) SIGGRAPH'99 course notes, course 6, Fundamental issues of visual perception for effective image generation
• Cutting, J. E. (1997). How the eye measures reality and virtual reality. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 29(1), 27-36.
• Hendy, W.R., Wells, P.N. (1997) The Perception of Visual Information. Springer Verlag.
• Mallot, H.A. (2000) Computational Vision: Information Processing in Perception and Visual Behavior. MIT Press.
• Palmer, S (1999) Vision Science. MIT Press.
• Qvortrup, L. (Ed.) (2001) Virtual Interaction : Interaction in Virtual Inhabited 3d Worlds. Springer Verlag.
• Stanney, K. (Ed.) (2002) Handbook of Virtual Environments. Laurence Erlbaum.
• Sutherland, I.E. (1965). The Ultimate Display. In Proceedings of the 1965 IFIP Congress 2: 506-508.
• Ware, C. (2004) Information Visualization : Perception for Design, 2nd Edition. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
• Wilson, J. (1999). Virtual environments: Applications and applied ergonomics. Applied Ergonomics, 30(1).
• Salvendy, G. (2006) Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, 3rd Edition, Wiley.
• Burdea, G., Coiffet, P (2003) Virtual Reality Technology, 2nd Edition, Wiley-IEEE Press.
• Singhal, S. and Zyda, M. (2008) Networked Games: Design and Implementation, Addison-Wesley.
• Bowman, D, Kruijff, E., LaViola, J.J, Poupyrev, I. (2004) 3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice, Addison-Wesley.
• Slater, M., Chrysanthou, Y. , Steed, A. (2002) Computer Graphics And Virtual Environments - From Realism to Real-Time. Addison-Wesley.
• Gregory, R. (1997) Eye and Brain, Princeton University Press.
• Frisby, JP and Stone, JV (2010) Seeing, Second Edition, The Computational Approach to Biological Vision, MIT Press
• Howard, I (2002) Seeing in Depth, vol 1 Basic Mechanisms
• Howard, I & Rogers B (2002) Seeing in Depth, vol 2 Depth Perception

Some Relevant Journals and Proceedings:

• Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
• IEEE Virtual Reality , VRAIS , Transactions on Visualisation and Computer Graphics , Computer Graphics and Applications , Systems, Man and Cybernetics
• ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, also SIGGRAPH , UIST , APGV, CHI , VRML , Interactive 3D graphics , CVE , DARE , * and Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology conferences
• Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, SPIE, SID proceedings
• Virtual Reality (Springer-Verlag)
• Vision Research, JOSA, JASA, Perception and Psychophysics, Nature Neuroscience, Perception ….