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AR SPOT: An Augmented-Reality Programming Environment for Children
AR SPOT is an augmented-reality authoring environment for children. An extension of MIT’s Scratch project, this environment allows children to create experiences that mix real and virtual elements. Children can display virtual objects on a real-world scene observed through a video camera, and they can control the virtual world through interactions between physical objects. This …
Games for Education
One particular focus of the Qualcomm Augmented Reality Game Studio has been educational games. Augmented reality has the potential to revolutionize education through experiences that engage students’ motivations, appeal to multi-modal learning styles, and increase possibilities for social collaboration. We are investigating the design of AR-based education through three projects.
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David Whitehead
February 1, 2013 at 2:42 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Since AR seems to be ideal for teaching skills-sets on the cheap.
Anyone every try making a AR guide for painting model kits (trains, planes & improbably cool robots ).
1. You purchase a model
2. scan the bar code which auto-downloads a bare framework of the model
3. you use the “3-d paint app” to design “the look” of the model.
4. you use the “scanner app” to teach the PC/cell , which are model parts, which paints are available and which are tools (brush, paint thinner, glue). Everything bar coded or a RFID tagged in advance.
5. You follow directions, the pc/cell spits out. “paint to this point”, “glue this joint to this joint”, “wipe this area too much glue or paint”, “sand here”.
Granted, it seems ridiculously hard to do this but you could start with very easy kits and work your way up. I think most kids would love it. Plus the commercial aspect would make it easy to get funding.