Forested Dino Exploration

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  Drive around the world1

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  Approach (but don't hit) the dinosaurs!

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  Learn about them and interact with them in AR!

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  Scan QR to access the app!

Inspiration

How this app differs from other education apps is that while some education apps mostly provide an interface to view dinosaurs and to learn about them similar to a pictorial dictionary, or by providing them with gamified procured lessons, this app is designed to engage users from the very start.

What it does

Users are jumped straight into the game world and are tasked to seek dinosaurs by driving a car which provides the spatial and navigational skills from driving a car and also seeking and dodging dinosaurs. This provides a much more engaging experience to the learner and allows for them to discover and learn dinosaurs by doing, not by reading and memorizing.

How we built it

We primarily used Unity to develop the dynamic 3D environments and used Zappar's WebAR library to allow for augmented reality experiences on the web.

Challenges we ran into

Due to the ambiguity and uncertainty of the overall theme of the hackathon, we had difficulty coming up with a sufficient enough solution to build and we spent several hours brainstorming. However, we combined things that we both think would work well and attempted to combine one of the team member's driving simulation idea with the concept of dinosaurs and AR to produce a cohesive game that is engaging, fun and educates kids on dinosaurs in an unique way.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Combining AR, with an immersive 3D environment that relates to the subject being taught.

What we learned

We learned how to integrate augmented reality with the Unity game engine to create immersive 3D environments that can also link to an AR viewer for further immersion.

What's next for Forested Dino Exploration

We would like to integrate ChatGPT into the application to try to provide more dynamic responses from the dinosaurs and polish up the game if we were given more time. We might implement Text to Speech (TTS) using AI instead of having prerecorded speech clips to allow for more flexibility with the descriptions.

Built With

• unity