Dino Lens

Dinosaurs are rarely taught in school curriculums despite children's interest. Hence, our team designed an AR lens that can help children have an immersive experience in learning about them.

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Inspiration

Our inspiration is that there are some topics children are interested in learning more about. Dinosaurs are one such topic. However such things are not taught in the school curriculum, so we made an AR lens that could be used in the classroom (or even at home), for children to have a fun and immersive learning experience on knowing more about dinosaurs. This may spark curiosity in children to become archaeologists or paleontologists.

What it does

It is an Augmented reality lens in which Dinosaurs are placed in a 360 degree view around the user. The user can hold each dinosaur for 2 seconds to view information about them. The user can tap the dinosaur again to hide the information about the dinosaur.

How we built it

Firstly we used the “Rotation” Tracking mode in Device tracking so that the user could view the objects surrounding them.

Secondly, under the “LookAroundObjectController” script we placed the 3D dinosaur objects around the user. So the user can move around the camera and see the different objects.

To achieve the touch function to display the text describing each dinosaur, we used the “behaviour” helper script for each dinosaur. We further used Touch events to trigger the display of text and hiding of text when clicking each dinosaur.

We used a large sphere object with the mesh material being a panorama photo to achieve a 360 degree background.

Challenges we ran into

The most challenging part was figuring out how to show text relevant to each dinosaur by clicking them. We tried multiple techniques including scripting however we found a simpler technique by employing the use of Behaviour scripts.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

This is our very first hackathon, so completing the project is something we are very proud of even if the end result is simple.

What's next for DinoLens

To make the experience even more immersive my adding-

  1. More dinosaurs
  2. Different environments
  3. Different time periods
  4. Day and night
  5. Ability to walk and explore
  6. Sounds for dinosaurs

Credits-

"Animated Flying Pteradactal Dinosaur Loop" (https://skfb.ly/o9nTY) by LasquetiSpice is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

"Looping Animation of T- Rex Dinosaur Model" (https://skfb.ly/o9UpX) by LasquetiSpice is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

"Velociraptor [VERY LOW POLY]" (https://skfb.ly/6vUTs) by BlueMesh is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

360 degree background image- Countryside-grass-farm-grassland by Pexels on https://pixabay.com/photos/countryside-grass-farm-grassland-1868781/

School stock footage - https://youtu.be/VkBnNxneA_A Dino 1 - Video by Engin Akyurt from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-model-of-a-tyrannosaurus-rex-2776549/ Dino 2 - Video by Julian Johnson-mortimer from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/dinosaur-swimming-underwater-6380245/

SYMBOLS

Map marker - https://www.pngall.com/map-marker-png 360 - http://www.stickpng.com/img/electronics/360-cameras/360-icon Click and Hold - https://icon-library.com/icon/hold-icon-19.html Click - https://www.iconpacks.net/free-icon/click-2384.html

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  • lensstudio
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