JordEd AR Field Trip

Bringing a new generation of educational experiences to students through augmented reality

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Inspiration

I have a niece who is really into exploring and learning but she can not travel to the whole world. Neither she can afford VR headset right now. To solve this problem, we came up with an idea of creating an AR (Augmented Reality) app for android phone where you can explore world like you do in the real world - Walking, turning, looking, observing, and being curious about everything.

What it does

It is an app that takes you to a different augmented world (a solar system in this case) where you can navigate through and learn about the planets and the space. Many students can go to same world in a same bus at the same time from different phones so that none of them have to buy VR headset.

How we built it

We used Unity to design scenes and C# programming on VS code to write scripts for navigation, changing scene, and look around.

Challenges we ran into

Except one team member, none of us knew how to use unity so this project was a huge learning opportunities for us. We had problems in networking side where we had to connect all learners/players at the same time to same place. The other problem we ran into was in changing scene in unity by using trigger because the physics behind making an object navigate freely in a space is pretty complicated.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  1. This is the the first time we designed any kind of game
  2. Made an AR app in 24 hours
  3. Great Teamwork this hackathon
  4. Got an idea of how educational experience can be enriched
  5. Made an app for my neice for her upcoming birthday

What we learned

  1. Unity
  2. C#
  3. Pluto is no more a planet

What's next for JordEd AR Education

  1. Introduce the scenes from amazon rainforest, antartica and poles to show students how climate change is affecting us
  2. Introduce the functionality of choosing the avatar
  3. Introducing a story line
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